Who are the saints?

This week, we read a really interesting article about saints and roughnecks at school. The saints were the kids at school who were always thought of as being the 'good' kids and the most respectful. These kids were well liked by others and they were upper class. Whereas the roughnecks were lower class, and teachers continuously looked down upon them. Everyone always thought the roughnecks were up to something, when in actuality, no one ever gave them a chance to be the people they could have been. In this story, the community was very deviant to the boys. Deviance is relative to time and place, and it is also someones perception. Since the teachers perceptions of the saints were that they were amazing kids, the teachers never thought they were doing something wrong. The teachers and the community perceived the roughnecks to be bad kids, so they automatically got in trouble for the same things the saints did. I really think this occurs a lot in communities and in schools. Sometimes, kids dressed a little different or have a certain group of friends are categorized as bad or good kids. This is very deviant of schools and communities, because people have no idea what kind of kids or people they are and want to be. It is really hard in life to go somewhere and not get judged by your clothing or how you look. Every can be have wrong perceptions of people, but I think that in this case, the fact that teachers and the community already decided the fate of the young roughneck boys is very wrong. When the community always put them down and always thought they were going to get in trouble, the boys thought they really had no future and that was who they were. Maybe if the community gave every person the same kindness, those boys could have ended up with a better life (most ended up dropping out of school or in jail).