School

School I have spent sixteen out of my twenty years on this planet, in school. At age four I entered preschool and now at age twenty-two, as I embark upon my first year in graduate, school has become second nature to me. Besides my family and friends, school has been the one aspect of my life that has remained constant. In a general sense I hardly ever give it a second thought. Yet on a more specific level, I am constantly buried under an exam for one class, or a difficult lesson in another. It is only when I do begin to reflect upon my formal education in a broader sense that the topic of equality arises. And in thinking about it as a theme that has run throughout my years as a student, I have come to only one conclusion: Equality is a concept that is supposedly taught to us as an early age, but ironically can never be achieved within the very schools we attend. On my very first day of elementary school, my Kindergarten teacher introduced herself to the class and shared with us what her aspirations were for the upcoming school year. She listed such things as equal, very, same, everyone, equality, yet, school, schools, world, unequal, results, opportunity, one, inequality, years, rights, kids, education, different, created, class, already, about, year, upon, teach, students, should, sense, run, read, person, perhaps, life, level