Prejudice Essay

The prejudice that am familiar with from an academic perspective would be what I term the in between group of kids in the public school system. This group of children is the children that are not your average child mentally but are not as easy to identify as say a child with autism. This group of children that I feel receives a negative attitude from the teachers, their peers, the school, and often times even the community this negative treatment is considered prejudice according to Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer (2015). This group of kids that I am referring to as the in between group often have some disorders that affect their daily lives including but not limited to the following:
• ADD/ADHD - Attention Deficit Disorder & Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
• Anxiety Disorder
• Bi Polar Disorder
• ODD - Oppositional Defiant Disorder
• OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder
• Pervasive Development Disorder
Each of these disorders can cause a child to suffer greatly at the hands of those who pre judge them as being kids that just need to have a stern hand in their life, or are just spoiled. When in fact many of these kids are struggling

This distinction can trigger negativity toward outgroup members" (Weiten, Dunn, & Hammer, 2015, p.212). Many of these kids at school grow up hearing that there is nothing wrong with Bobby he simply is a bad apple and needs some good parenting, yet nobody bothers to get to know Bobby or his family to find out that Bobby has a disorder that keeps him from always performing at a normal level. The downside for many of these kids is that they appear quite average/normal when you look at them physically, however many people have no idea of the confusion and turmoil that is just behind those average looking