All students should be treated equally

To The Eagle:

A couple of weeks ago, the high school had its voting to see who would be this year’s “school clowns” for the yearbook. One of the students had the idea to go into the restroom and strike a funny pose.

An innocent idea, but after they entered the restroom a male staff member came in after and sent them to the office. Mind you, there were four female students and one male student. The male student told our principal he didn’t know they could get in trouble for doing that, and he just thought it fit the title they had been selected for. Three of the four female students told him that they were just taking the picture for the year book. The final female student, in fear of getting a detention said “I shouldn’t get a detention because I’m a good kid.”

At the end of that day the male student and the students taking the picture all received two hours detention, but that one student got off the hook. I find it outlandish that they did get detention but even more so that the student allowed to be in there got a detention.

Favoritism in our school is quite prevalent in some cases, like this one. To prevent an incident like this would be to give these students detention or give none of the students detention. I would just like the staff to treat all of the students equally.

Ben Vasion

Cathlamet