Stereotypes In Public Schools

In the world we live in today, there is a numerous amount of different types of stereotypes about people because of their skin color, heritage, and culture; the stereotype I have experienced constantly for the past sixteen years of my life has been that of attending a private Catholic School. I personally loved the atmosphere and the experience I had at my small school, and I would definitely do it all over again if I had the opportunity. However, I understand that each school is unique in all cases, whether it be its’ size, the kids, the teachers, the town it’s located in, and so on. As a student of the school, I have always been looked upon as either rich, spoiled, or in many cases, both. Although some of the things said about kids at private schools may be true, it is definitely not true for every student. Many of the kids that
They weren’t given the money by their parents and they were most definitely not rich in any way. I worked two jobs and almost all my friends worked the same hours as me, however, everyone always concluded that since our parents gave us everything and all the money we needed, we never worked and just laid around doing nothing all day. I do know a slim amount of kids that did not work, but how can everyone stereotype an entire student body based one four or five kids? The constant stereotypes of Catholic schools get very old and annoying considering the people who say that have either 1) never met any of the kids or 2) have never given those kids the time of day because they have already come to a conclusion on the type of person they are. This is the part that angers me the most. I was always told and I know almost everyone has heard the cliché saying to ‘never judge a book by its cover’, but this is seriously a motto that everyone should live by. Honestly, it does not matter what anyone looks like - white, Asian, deformed, mentally handicapped - it just matters who they are on the under of the surface of their outer