It’s Special
I know it’s special where you are, but until you experience it here, you probably wouldn’t have a complete understanding why it’s just a little more special here. You see when the students where I teach high school science graduate, it’s a little more special than you’re run of the mill high school graduation. Where I teach, the effects of poverty are on full display. Dangerous streets, serious dysfunction at home, crowded conditions, English a second language, all make for a severe uphill climb to simply graduate high school. Heck, somewhere around 80% of our parents haven’t graduated from high school. Thinks about it, 80%. If you’re reading this you may take graduating from high school for granted, I mean of course you graduate from high school, duh. All you really have to do is show up if all you want to do is graduate, right? read more