Angles of fairness.

Recently, there is a big hoo ha in my school about the public image students, especially sec 1 nowadays are tarnishing.

The school strongly believes that we, as part of the school, a reputable one, should uphold its good name by putting up our best behaviour in public places.

Definitely no disagreement with that. However, I was quite disappointed with the public and school for treating us as public nuisance.

For example, when my classmates and I went out to eat lunch last week, a school teacher in the same bus as we are in reprimanded us for talking in the bus and causing a public nuisance.

How did we cause a public nuisance? We were just talking at a normal volume. We were just talking. Will that tarnish our school's reputation?

Maybe that teacher sees that issue too seriously. I think we only deserve scolding if we are making a lot of noise and hence, disturb other passengers.

I am even more *pissed* off by what happened just now. My classmates and I went to lunch again, this time in hope that we wouldn't be a "public nuisance".

However, when we waited for a bus at the nearby bus stop, a woman of about 40 years old came up to us and snapped, "Do you know you rowdy young people are blocking the path?!"

Again, we were a "public nuisance" .

First of all, it was obvious that there are much space for other people to move about and board the bus.

Next, if we were just middle-age or elderly people, I bet that woman wouldn't speak a word to us at all.

It is @#D!F%! obvious that most people, like the woman, has a bad impression of young people due to a small minority of young people doing things that are morally wrong.

So, in their minds, they already have a impression that young people nowadays are selfish and rowdy. And the part of this that makes so angry is that their bad impression only applies to the small minority of young people nowadays.

I bet if that woman who chided us has previous impressions of young people doing charity work, helping the elderly etc, thich shows that they, no, we are kind, she wouldn't have reprimanded us just now.

That is exactly what makes me feel unjust. People just judge people based on their impressions of the group of people they belong to.

Maybe only one or two rowdy young people would change a person's impression and opinion of the group, "young people".

That's why you always hear things like, "Young people nowadays...hopeless". This remarks are ignorantly made by people who base their judgements on a few young people who just happened to be rowdy or simply playful.

I seriously think that voids us of our freedom and human rights. We have to keep quiet in the bus without uttering a single word so that we can avoid being scolded by those who have a bad impression of the "young people" group.

And we can't stand in a bus stop?

May some angles of fairness be shed upon us.