Unseen Structured Environment

On my fourth trip to MLK, I witnessed a structure of class set up by the economy and used, but not recognized by society which the kids interact in. In general, no kid is considered higher than anybody else, but students come from different types of families and inherit different types of statuses on their own. Richer kids seemed to look more decent than other students and had better cars than other poorer income students, who wore shirts with drawings and sayings like “Dawg” on it and used less fancy affordable economic vehicles. Kids also interact in this class system a lot and do not realize or know about it, but kids often times regard someone as higher by their status achieved or the statistics that prove they are higher or better than someone else; for example, a smart kid in math or a rich boy during lunch, they are considered higher than someone else because they specialize in that area, which sets up the structure of class that the kids use a lot of the time as being better than someone else. Often times I would see this structure form and pop up during the day when active students participated in after school activities or smart kids answering all the questions in the classroom. When we think about history, we soon find out that in the past, it was no different than what the kids semi experience daily, there were many people from different social structures like: merchants, foreigners, natives, leaders, and the environment was structured this way, one better than another theory, or a class setting theory. Today, our freedoms, like the constitution, grant us more power to be equal and accepting a single class system as our basis of living. In contrast, it makes us all have an equal opportunity and eliminates our belief of one class being better than another like the Europeans did to Native Americans in the 1800s.