Week 12 Nov.7th - 11th

Reflect on what you know about the school community.

   At the beginning of the semester, the school counselor took myself and 5 of the other interns around the community to show us where some of the students live and to just get familiar with the area. It was very surprising of how low the social economic status was for many of the students. When seeing where they live first hand, it's a real eye opener of the kind of situations these kids come from. Some of the students live in pop-up campers with multiple members of their family, some of them live in "lean-to" shed type homes; when seeing this it makes me wonder how they even make the effort to come to school. How are we to expect these students to preform at their top notch abilities when their living situations are as they are? I think it was an excellent idea to show us around the area so that we could see, first-hand, how these students are living and just what they have to deal with when they walk out that school door at 3:00.