preschool equality
In preschool they were all similar in everything. Only the tune of their screams differed… Someone was diagnosed with slow development for carrying his pencil in a hysterical squeeze with 3 fingers… instead of 4… or 2 instead of 3 according to the handbook of pen holding… That person’s mom read hysterically about sensory motor problems for the first time. Another kid got pulled out of the morning circle time. Later he got assigned a shadow (teacher) to sit with him. Before KG1 a quiet girl was pulled out of school into a special school. Some kids opted for special subjects too early on. In grade 1, students joined from a different school: we learned later that their parents had cheated the system by squeezing their kid prematurely in nursery at a different “institution” that accepts 2 years olds and bit. They must have been in a rush for something, racing with fleeting time. Some kids were taken out of class for special treatment, some were lost and had to take medication for some acronym disease. The rest were labeled safe, without calling them as such… Soon after that, some kids were considered to be inclined for literacy and numbers!.. That was when I learned fancy terms on a daily basis from some special education expert, barely out of college and into the jungle, lecturing at us during coffee hours. Some kids were advised to sing.. to join the music band… but later just before performance time got placed in the back…
In middle school they had an option to take advanced classes. I spotted a boy writing in hiding.. He did not want his writings to be judged, nor for his hobby to be considered a talent with a name attached. I hope he keeps on writing in hiding. His notebook had no labels. No lines: just plain writing in a plain notebook. Then suddenly the dissimilarities became more Indiscrete. The school wanted to boast about ranking; getting acceptance into brand colleges became the biggest of all deals. Sports were played not for the fun of it… but rather as a passport to big branded institutions; so was community service were executed for different value than the one it is claiming to be… All got so messed up and fluid. What a tragedy…
Everything was predestined, since preschool.
