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What Students Are Saying About Reparations, What They Want to Learn in School, and Individuality – The New York Times


I believe this image is trying to say that we should focus on ourselves. We are the only ones who matter. We should not be worried about what everyone else is doing or what everyone else thinks. Your biggest priority should be yourself above anyone else. You should still be there for people, but you still need to find a way to put yourself first at times.

Alexis Lopez, Glenbard West Hs Glen Ellyn, IL

To me this picture embodies something I feel very strongly about. The top two words, ‘EVERYONE’ and ‘NO ONE’, are crossed out leaving the bottom word, ‘YOU’, circled. Thinking solely about the needs of others isn’t healthy for a person. People who seek to please every possible person will come across every possible conflict of interest. The greatest being their own, if they ever find the courage to seek what they want instead of what others do.

Hydin S, RI

This image shows individuality. Finding yourself in the midst of millions following the crowd. There are two black lines marking out “Everyone” and “No one.” From my interpretation, this means you shouldn’t strive to be like everyone else nor should you go out of your way to be like no one else. For example, don’t dye your hair a certain color just because everyone else is, but also don’t dye your hair an unpopular color you don’t even like just so you can be seen as different or “opposing the system.” Just be you. Do what you like without influence from anyone else or pressure to do the opposite from everyone.

Eliana D, Hoggard High School in Wilmington, NC

This photo is very intriguing to me. The fact that it’s written in what looks like Sharpie makes me think of how you can’t change who you truly are. It’s written on a napkin, which makes me wonder if it means that you are allowed to make mistakes, since napkins are what clean up people’s mistakes and messes.

Rachel Maston, Hoggard High School – Wilmington, NC

I see this photo and I think of acting for yourself, and not caring about other people’s opinions. I truly believe this is something that my generation needs to focus on more. In this day and age, it is hard to think for ourselves. Social media is constantly influencing us to do things that we most likely would not do without. I’m guilty of this also. When I go out, I take photos with my friends for the specific reason of posting them on Instagram for other people to see. If I didn’t have social media, I know that I wouldn’t care if I looked good in a photo or even taking photos, but I do, because that’s what technology has “trained” me to do.

Ava O’Nan, Hoggard High School in Wilmington, NC

After reading the article I saw that it was referring to this generations desire to be like everyone else and conform to the “trends.” Everyone falls into this trap of invalidation where we base our self worth on the number of likes our post gets or how many compliments we get on our outfit in a day. The thing is most of the time, the version of ourself we dress for or post for is a subcategory of trends that we put ourselves into the “e-boys/girls” the “VSCO girls” “Horse girls” “preppy kids” etc etc and we call this our personality. But our true style and true self can’t be locked down into one category of style, personality, or aura.

Ethan, Pinkey, Hoggard High School in Wilmington, NC

I used to care so much about what others thought about me to the point where I would change myself around so many different people that when I was alone, I couldn’t even remember who I really was anymore. I lost my outgoing, loud, creative, and goofy self that made me who I was. I became a girl that would curse to fit in or wear clothes that I didn’t even like. I became lost in the crowd of “everyone.”



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