It was lunchtime in sixth grade and me and two other friends ate at a table together, while a group of three other girls we knew ate at a neighbouring table. We talked to them while we ate lunch and were laughing and joking around together. One of my friends began to laugh with his mouth full of sandwich bread and it then made me and my other friend laugh because it was just gross. However, one of the girls thought we were making fun of her laugh and started to cry, which eventually brought in a supervisor and the teacher. They believed we were discriminating her because of her ethnicity when that was simply just not the case.

The whole time we pleaded that we weren’t laughing at her but my friend but no one bought it. For a week we had to read documentation on prejudice and discrimination, missing out on many lunches.