Why Do Teachers Carry Heavy Objects?

Growing up, teachers would come into classrooms asking for help carrying heavy objects. They always seemed to ask for the strongest, most muscular, and fierce boy for help. As a child I pondered, why do they always ask for a boy and not a girl? Being the presumptuous little girl I was, it was clear to me that I was stronger than the boys in the classroom. One of my most prominent elementary school memories was my fifth-grade teacher asking if anyone would like to volunteer in assisting another teacher in carrying some books to her classroom. I looked around to see that my hand was the only one up. Excitement filled my entire body because the long awaited moment had arrived! This small pleasure was over when I heard the teacher assign the task to a random boy who wasn’t even raising his hand. She glanced at me and told me she did not call on me because it was too heavy of a weight for a young girl to transport. From that moment on, I sat in silence when a teacher asked for assistance carrying anything.

I used to think I was strong, muscular, and fierce; but it was put into my mind that this was incorrect. It is to my understanding that I have become all these three. I am strong. Not only in the physical sense, but also in personality. Powerful, persuasive, secure and determined are adjectives frequently used to describe me. I am muscular. Again, not referring to the tissue that gives me the physical power to play five sports, but in the muscles named brain and heart. The most important to me is fierce. Fierce in the way I act, in what I say, and who I