Respect

Respect is a very serious topic in teen leadership. It is something that many people value and what everybody should deserve to obtain. Respect means to be observant of the person or group’s beliefs and ideas and not automatically laughing or start talking behind their back. Many people in today’s society struggle with keeping or giving respect to another person and it is a problem. The problem causes many arguments that cause unnecessary arguments and fights. Respect is something that you should give to everybody no matter what they look like or no matter the way they look. One famous quote is by Doctor Suess and it says, “ A person’s a person, no matter how small.” This is a great example of how respect should be given to a person. No

matter the way they look or how they act, you should give at least a little bit of respect to a person. Unless they do something that is completely wrong you should give a person some respect.

Respect can be lost if a person does something that can not be respected like being aggressive with a young student that can not defend him or herself. This is something that can lose a person’s respect from one another. Another famous quote is by Albert Einstein and it says, “Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized.” This is a great quote because it explains how everyone should give respect to one another but no one should think one is greater than the other. This relates to respect in the classroom because some people in today’s society think they are better than everyone else based on social class, intelligence and athleticism. Nobody should lose respect based off of how they seem to others or how they compare to others. Everybody is different because of the way they have been brought up into this world but that does not mean they deserve any less respect that another. Most kids were told when they were a kid to treat others the way you would like to be treated. This is an important lesson for many people in this generation because many people treat others today with less respect and not very well or as equals. For example, many people in the classroom are talking or on technology while people are

presenting. This causes problems for people trying to present because they do not feel like they have the respect of others in the classroom. This causes problems because teachers have to get involved with the students being very disrespectful. This just causes interruption after interruption with the classroom. In conclusion, respect is something that everybody in the world today deserves and should get. No matter how they dress, act or believe in others should be able to obtain the respect of another person. Respect is a important thing for everybody to have a feeling of in their lifetime. When people do not treat others with respect it causes issues within a classroom, group of people, or even in a country.