A Word to the Teachers

I'm being honest when I say that this school is exhausting. All the class time, tests, quizzes, presentations, projects, and everything else we busy ourselves with can really drain us both physically and emotionally. Personally, by the end of the day on Friday, I'm so anxious to go home and enjoy the weekend that the minutes crawl by at a ridiculously slow rate. After a whole week, I just want to go home and relax, hang out and play Zumba on my Playstation Move, and watch endless hours of Spongebob. It's hard to be focused on the last class on Friday. I should know, because I struggle with maintaining my focus all the time. It''s easy to get sucked into all the distractions. This Friday,for example, I got into an argument with one of my classmates because I was irritated and thought they took something of mine. I understand I shouldn't have argued- I get that. What I don't understand, though, is why I was the one who got a talking to after class even though I wasn't the only contributing to the argument. It frustrates me that every time I do something wrong, the teachers are ready to pounce on me with this long lecture that is drowning with disappointment. They should know by now that I will be the first one to admit my that I made a mistake and apologize. Which is exactly what I did on Friday. So why do teachers have it in their heads that scholarly students such as I shouldn't be able to make mistakes? Why do have we to get the long speeches about how we should have known better?
I know what the response will be: "Students like you and all the others with your qualities are the leaders of the school who need to be the examples of the school".

But I pose one question:is it right to make someone feel like they can never make a mistake? To put them in a box of perfection because they are the leaders of the school? Would you not do the same thing if you were in my situation? I do laugh, I do argue back when someone yells at me. I'm human and I have those days where I'm not in the mood to participate, or don't feel like being in school.
Doesn't everybody?
I think teachers forget that. It's almost as if they perceive me as this person that can be displayed like a trophy during meetings and presentations.

So I write this on behalf of all the students who feel the same way I do:It wasn't that long ago that the you all were our age, trying to balance academics and social freedom. If you would just look back and try to remember what it felt like to be stuck in school when all you wanted to do was go home, or hang out with your friends. Students who make it their duty to succeed and do the right thing the majority of the time, students like the peers who chosen to be ambassadors, all we ask for is some empathy from you teachers who hold us so highly. We already have pressure to be at the top of the class by everyone we love, including ourselves. All we really want is for you to understand that, and to get the benefit of the doubt that we know what we did was wrong and that we'll redirect ourselves like we always do.