1st blog

I live in the South side of chicago and in this particular area in which i live you can find that is built from mostly minorities. In my grammar school that i attended most of the students there were hispanic and a hand full of african american students and maybe 1 or 2 white students. The school building itself was not a pretty site either. the walls were chipping and the floors looked very old. the stairs were also falling apart. not to mention that we had to share one classroom with about 32 students and sometimes we didn't even have our desks to sit in. even though the conditions of the building were bad and the students were mostly minorities the teachers in my opinion were excellent. they were some of the best teachers I've ever had in my entire education career. they really took time to care for the students that they were teaching. one teacher in specific miss godina was really great to this day i am inspired by her to become a teacher myself and maybe even teach in my old grammar school. like Anyon's description of the type of schools that he studied i would say that my middle school fell into the category of the possible the working class school. most of the students parents were always working and the students would stay late at school during the after school programs that were offered or sometimes i even noticed that the students would walk home on there on and i knew that the parents were not going to be home and they were going to be at the house all on their own due to the fact that the parents were too busy working all the time. my high school was only a few blocks away from my middle school so basically it was about the same as the middle school experience except for there i was introduced to drugs, sex, and violence. things that i wasn't so used to and i didn't even know what the things were to be completely honest. students were more aggressive towards the teachers and the teachers didn't seem as interested as the teachers i had in middle school. the way that this makes me feel along with the article that was read is basically that it is true that the schools stay that way to keep that status quo. its a sad thought but its a reality. the money that is needed to improve the status of the building itself is probably impossible to acquire because of the area in which the school is located. if it were a suburban school you may notice a very different situation. but at the end of the day the only way a student will ever be successful is if the student has enough inspiration to succeed and enough integrity. it shouldn't matter what type of shitty building your schools were at what matters is what effort you as a student put into succeeding. we shouldn't let the stereotypes define who we are an individual. i didn't....