Changes I would make to my school and Why by Chloe

Changes I would make to my school and Why by Chloe - September 2023 Scholarship Essay

For me, school has never been easy. I felt very unheard and misunderstood. If I had the authority to change my school, I would change it by setting more ground rules toward bullying and sexual harassment. I would do this because I have been bullied ever since I started school. My teeth were not perfectly straight, or my hair was too messy looking. IT could even be as little as I had a scratch on my face. Even with the repetitive reports I would put in, I had been told multiple times to leave them alone and that I was the problem. I could hand them proof and the bully(s) admit to it, but I was still the problem. Since I started middle school back in 2018, I have seen many cases where guys would grab young women and treat them like objects. These young men would also make us women feel like we couldn't leave them because nobody else would love us like they said they could. School's never really focused on how many of us were scarred because we could report them every single day but it didn't work. These men still continued to hurt us and treat us like objects. Disciplinary actions were rarely put down on these young men even though they were hurting us, young women.
I would also help students who were struggling at home and not being able to eat or have a safe space for at least part of their day. I was put under this group of students for the longest time. My mother was a single parent on and off for many years. I would finally feel like I had a father figure in my life, and then things would go wrong. I would end up having hardly any food at home, and school was the only place I could get a little bit of food. I never had the comfort of my mother either. She was always gone, or she would distance herself from me because she didn't want the stress she felt being around me. I felt like I had nobody to talk to, and nobody to trust. When I would move schools, I was always in an environment that was a "do not talk about your issues, just do your work and put on a fake smile" kind of thing. Students should never be put down for their struggles outside of school, or inside of school. School should be the safest place for students.
This is what I would change if I could at my school and why I would change these things. I hope to one day be able to accomplish these goals I have set in mind for myself so I can start making a bigger difference in the school systems, and in other students' lives also.