Tolerance and intolerance, some people think that it is all just a big joke and others take it very seriously. So how should you take it? Have you ever felt it? After I have read the past two stories and read a review over it. I have come to find out that it is a very big and serious part in our life and that most almost all teenagers with different looks and perspectives get picked on every day. From grade school on up every kid or someone that is different gets picked on. Some get picked on so bad that it is just a matter of time before they snap and guess what? All of those nasty remarks and jokes that a person has said comes right back at them except with a different type of pain, a bullet, or a knife, and sometimes pipe bombs. Have you ever thought to yourself that maybe everything in life that you say can come back and affect you and other kids? If you have not then I suggest you take a time out in your life and think long and hard about it.
It is becoming such an outrage in school systems that teachers and principals are coming up with there own set of rules. These new set of rules are called the, "Zero ? Tolerance Policy." This means that if you bring a little squirt gun to school you get big punishment. Even if you say something to a kid that you think doesn't hurt them. All that they have to do is go to the office or teacher and tell them! The schools are not taking any funny crap. So every one think before you act!
"Hey, Skinny Bones, pump it girl. Ain't you got no energy today?" Gail, the biggest of the black girls who had the other end of the rope yelled, "Didn't you eat your rice and beans and pork chops for breakfast today?" (Cofer)(156). These kind of rude comments is what a little girl named Elena had to deal with in he ...