Entry 24: What's Your Problem

There are many situations in life that are unfair and many people mistake equality with fairness. Fairness and equality are two completely different things. Fairness is when people are treated without discrimination and treated to the level they deserve. Not everyone deserves the same kind of treatment. Equality is to make everything equal, the same and being fair is not always being equal. For example if someone broke their leg and needed help up some stair and he receives help he is treated nicely and it wouldn't be unfair to other people who don't get any help because they don't have a broken leg. That situation would be fair but not equal. In my year of life I have experience types of unfair situations. The most reoccurring one is of teachers having favorite students and giving them a higher score even though they don't deserve it. Some times I am the one that is the teacher's favorite but many times other are the favorites. For example during history class I had back in my old school we had a essay to write and everyone had only 30 minutes to write it. By the time 30 minutes ran out one kid was still writing, the teacher took away my essay that was near to completion but not quite complete without me being able of asking for more time. Then as she walked over to the one student still writing she stopped next to him and waited until he was completed his essay. Then when the scores came back I received a 70% for in completion and the kid who had extra time received a 95%. Yet when I read his essay it had grammar errors all over the page and spelling errors as well making it unworthy of the 95% and the extra time given by the unfair teacher.