After i read the story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros. It reminds me that when i was about ten or eleven years old, i had a similar experience like the author has in the school. I remember that was in a elementary school, a gril who was sitting next to me told the teacher that she lost her pen in the math class. Coincidence, i had a exactly pen as hers. The teacher came to me and asked me where i got the pen from. i was so scare on that time, i was shaking while i answered the teacher's question, and my face was flashing. i couldn't even completed the sentence, because i didn't talk a lot in school on that age and never talked to the teacher but answered question in the class. Therefore; the teacher thought i stammer when i was talkikng because i had guilty conscience. She judged that i was theft. i was trying to explain, but she didn't want to listen any explaintion. i was so embarrassing. Everybody was looking at me. I wished there was a cavity so i can hided myself. The next morning in the school, the girl said that her cousin took her pen. The teacher didn't say anything to me, as there was nothing happened yesterday.
These age discrimination has happened to almost everybody i think. Most of people think that children must listen what ever that adults say, and follow their direction. They will never listened the idea that children have, even the idea is much better than they have. They think kids are kids, they can't have a good idea. This is not true, children have right to make thir own decisions and most children are much clever than some adults. The children can not just listen to the adults, sometimes they have to make thier own action too.
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