I absolutely hate the way that a lot of PACE and CIC kids can be treated completely different than kids in other academies. Because I am in PACE, I’m going to mostly focus on that for this article. I remember when I was a freshman in PE, hearing that PACE kids who didn’t dress didn’t have to worry about getting picked up by ACE.
PACE kids usually end up being more informed about college and APs than other kids. Once there was a non-PACE senior in my AP Spanish class who had never heard of the AP test until the teacher explained it to him. Once when I was talking about college to a friend, another friend asked us, “How do you guys know so much about college?”
It also bothers me to my soul the way that I see many PACE kids treat and talk to non-PACE kids. I remember one student in my PE class saying, “Honestly, if you aren’t in PACE or CIC you aren’t smart,” or another kid once saying, “PACE kids deserve to have their own building because they are the smart ones.” I remember freshman year I had a BEACH girl in my group of friends and one of the PACE girls made a comment to her telling her that she wasn’t smart.
I have never been stopped when I was walking around school without a pass during class. I feel like in my classes with non-PACE kids I get preferential treatment.