Segregation is an ongoing problem in almost every high school. Although high school is viewed as a time where students break off and pursue what they would like to do and develop a closer friend circle, there is a fine line between breaking off with close friends and excluding or segregating away from people. St. Georges is a fantastic school because you can be an athlete, an artist, an actor, or anything else your heart desires but does this create segregation in our school?

I found the problem at saint wasn’t that students were excluding, but that some students decided to separate from others. Most of the time students separated from each other was because there first language is not English. I decided to interview a boy who had moved to St. Georges from china this year and English is his second language, the boy requested remain anonymous. “ I moved here from china this year and it has been very hard” I asked him what the hardest part was, “When I first got to saints I didn’t know anybody and it was hard for me to meet people because my English was not good, so finding friends was the hardest part”. I asked him who his friends were now, “ all my friends are in the boarding house, it easy for me to talk to them because they speak mandarin like me”. “Some people think it’s wrong that I speak a different language then English but they don’t understand”, don’t understand what I asked. “ They don’t understand what it’s like, if you moved to china and everyone spoke mandarin except 3 people you would be friends with them right?” The conversation I had with this boy opened my mind to what it would be like to be put in his shoes, and how difficult it would be. I realized that the reason these boys separate is because it’s comfortable for them not because they don’t like others.

In my research I discovered segregation in saints is decreasing a lot from what it used to be and what it is in other schools. St. Georges isn’t segregated into the stereotypical “jocks and geeks” that you see in TV shows and movies. The reason behind segregation in saints is actually the school being inclusive; the students that St. Georges accepts from overseas are the ones separating and if the student community puts themselves in those students perspective I think they would develop a lot more patience for them and segregation at saints would become very close to disappearing.