Infantilization

Before the discussion about infantilization a few weeks ago in class, I never really thought about how common it is to want to treat adults or even teens like children. The one place that kept coming into mind when thinking about infantilization was our own school. Stevenson is the epitome of treating it's students like little kids. I feel like we have more, crazier, security gaurds than some airports. Don't get me wrong, there are two security gaurds that I do love, but I always feel like the other ones are trying to find the smallest, stupidest thing we do wrong to get us into trouble. At lunch, security gaurds walk around and just stare at you and your friends while you are eating; your just eating! If you go into your bag and shuffle around looking for something, they will automatically come up and accuse you of texting. If you even need to share a chair with a friend at lunch because there aren't anymore chairs, they will yell at you and tell you to find a new one.. even if that is impossible. I understand that they are there to try to keep us all safe and to inforce the rules, but I think they take their jobs to the extreme. Also, so do some teachers. Teachers claim that we are in high school to learn to mature and get ready for the real world once we are out of high school, but if teachers continue treating us the way they are, it will be impossible to prepare for the real world. The first day of school my spanish teacher told our class that we aren't aloud to use the bathroom unless it is an emergancy. But one day when a kid clearly really needed to use the restroom and claimed that it was an emergancy, our teacher wouldn't let him. Who denies anybody the right to use the restroom? Even kids in preschool are aloud to use the restroom when they need to- they just need a supervisor to go with them. Atleast we don't need a teacher to come with us to the restroom, right? That's a plus. Maybe we are treated like this because they feel like since we are under their watch they need to have complete control. I don't know. But in my opinion, the faculty at our school should not claim that we are in high school to mature and prepare for our lives ahead of us, if we aren't even given the opportunity to do so.