Blog Post 1:

Our argument for the first day of class was talking about the injustices that people of authority commit. I would have to put it as such: If people who have some form of authoritative power use it to benefit themselves and take control of others, then they are committing an injustice. The reasoning behind my statement was because of an issue I had with my Spanish teacher high school year. My high school Spanish teacher was an absolutely horrible human being who abused every single ounce of authority she had in order to benefit herself or torment others for her enjoyment. It was because of her that I not only started to fail high school, but gave up on it entirely. She would call my dad every day to let him know that I was a horrible student when I had done nothing at all. She was extremely racist towards some of the African-American students and always picked on the Asian students. When I went to another authoritative figure to deal with this issue, my counselor told me that I was making things up or exaggerating. I was even punished for attempting to fix this issue I had with the teacher. I was mocked all year and completely destroyed my self esteem.  even my parents were upset at both the entire situation and myself. I blame myself every day for what happened and yet there was nothing I could have done. it is because of the situation that I was able to come to the conclusion that authoritative figures use their power to control other people for their own benefit.The reason that both Alberto and I came to that conclusion was because we had both experienced injustices and mistreatment from authoritative figures we’ve had in the past. My partner claimed that he wasn’t the victim in the situation but was negatively affected by this. This argument connects back to my story because both coaches ended up abusing the power they had to benefit themselves and let the kids suffer.