Discrimination is everywhere. Sometimes it's intelligence, sometimes it's money, and sometimes it's skin color. In the school where I teach, I can easily see the first type.
Portland's elite school is huge. So big that sometimes I get lost in it. Full of trees and different paintings on the walls.
Have you heard that some things are beautiful from a distance? This school is one of them.Its outward beauty is only a cover. Here, everyone is willing to sacrifice others for themselves.Of course, almost everyone.
The teachers talk behind each other and each of them thinks they are smarter. I don't have a problem with that, but I don't like them showing their superiority and making fun of others.
This issue is more visible in students.Richer students bully poorer ones.Even the poorer may have more intelligence, but they do nothing because of lack of self-confidence.I think money is the least valuable measure of excellence.
I came to school on one of the winter days when the weather was almost cold.I was wearing gloves and warm clothes.Cold weather really burns human bones.
My class was in one of the less populated areas of the school. Which is good.I don't feel like talking to other teachers along the way.
"Please… take it back!" I heard a voice of a girl.
In the corner of the school, two girls, one blonde and the other brunette, were talking to another girl.
"You did a bad thing,venessa. Very bad" said the blonde.
I hid behind the wall and looked. What did she do?!
"How dare you get a high score? Do you think you are smarter than me?" The blonde said, took off the girl's jacket.
The brunette girl gave the blonde the gloves she had forcibly taken from Vanessa and she threw them into the wet mud next to her and kicked them. Then She poured a bottle of water on Vanessa's head. it was cold. Even I was shivering with all the clothes I was wearing. Venessa sat on the ground. She was crying.
"I thought we're friends," venessa said.
"Friends?!" They laughed,"you're just a poor girl. I won't even let you to lick my Shoes." The blonde girl said.
I can save her right now, but I won't.This girl must taste hardness.This will make her stronger. Also, if I interfere, the two girls will get upset and tease Vanessa again. I need to destroy this blonde's pride, not her bones.
All of those threes girls were in my class. My first class today was with them. Vanessa was a shy and beautiful girl.
"Miss Taylor, didn't you wear warm clothes today?" I asked after sitting on the table.
"I slipped and my clothes got dirty" Vanessa Taylor was talking without looking at me.
I gave her my jacket. The whole class was laughing at her and Vanessa was upset about it.
"All right, smiley children, let's go to the lesson"
I wrote on the blackboard in bold:"Dmitri Mendeleev" I sat on the chair"who is this man?!"
I looked at Vanessa. I was waiting for her to answer, I was sure that she knew the answer. She was so smart. But she didn't answer. She was scared.
"He is the founder of the periodic table of chemical elements." The girl who had teased Vanessa answered proudly.
"Correct, Mendeleev was a genius."
"Nothing special. Just put a few elements in a table. I can too." a boy said, Everyone grinned.
"Mendeleev was an elite" I said,"He was able to predict the existence of many elements using this table. What no one could do,"
After talking about Mendeleev's life, it was time to ask the students questions,"miss silver, miss Taylor, Come to the blackboard,"
Vanessa Taylor and Elizabeth Silver, the same girl who bullied Vanessa, stood up. It is a shame that this girl and I have the same name.
Vanessa was absolutely terrified, I could feel it. But Silver was very confident. I had already read the case of these two people. Vanessa came from a poor family, while Elizabeth grew up in complete wealth.
"I heard you two are the smartest in this class. I would like to test some of your information."
I wrote questions for each one on the blackboard. Questions like:"The discoverer of the element radium? Linear emission spectrum of oxygen and etc. Although the questions were easy, Vanessa did not answer all of them. Elizabeth looked at her every few seconds and I'm sure Vanessa was scared of her.
"Miss. Taylor, if you cannot answer the questions, I will tell the manager that your level is low and you will be fired." I said seriously.
Vanessa was shocked, she stared at me. When she saw that she had no choice, she answered all the questions. Dominant and without mistakes.
For each of the girls, I had written a difficult question that was higher than high school. I did it just for fun but I got shocked. Vanessa solved that too. I feel this girl will become a great chemist one day.
"extraordinary. It turned out that money does not buy intelligence" I teased Elizabeth because I knew how much her family had spent on her.
The whole class grinned at Elizabeth.
"It's not fair, her question was much easier than mine," said Elizabeth with angry eyes.
"Miss. Taylor, can you solve Miss. Silver's question?" I asked.
Vanessa looked at the question, then at me. Elizabeth was staring at her to maybe scare her but it didn't happen. Vanessa coolly solved the question. It's not as if this question was for PhD exams.
After the two students sat down, the looks on them were different. Everyone saw Vanessa as an elite, and that destroyed Elizabeth.she knew if he teased Vanessa again, the students would think it was because of jealousy and she would be destroyed even more.
After class I held Vanessa and talked to her about being strong. She was in a bit of a hurry because her uncle had come here from another city and she wanted to see him.