You'll need to know a bit about my students to understand the blog a bit better. My students are a little bit of everything. They're so often categorized as low-income, disadvantaged, at-risk, poor, dumb, unteachable, animals (yes, I hear people say that all the time!) among many others.
More often than not, they're outrageously underestimated and misunderstood. Statistically, I teach in one of the worst areas of the Bronx. We have kids ranging from high school readers to non-readers; kids who haven't left the Bronx to kids who just left their home island, English, Spanish, French, Bengali Bosnian and Hindi speaking students; athletes and bookworms. You get the point.
Even as poverty, language and socio-economic status play vital roles in shaping them into who they are becoming, I think, more often than not, most of these kids have been playing the role of ignored, unloved or failure for so long that it's become their self-fulfilling prophecies.
I've compiled a list below to let you get to know them a bit better.
- lovable and unloved
- ambitious and angry
- funny and farty
- smellies and smarties
- disadvantaged and disappointed
- yearning and sometimes learning
- hopeful and happy
- misunderstood and miserable
- clueless and creative
- abused and abusing
- hungry and obese
- superficial and superfly
- dreamless and dreaming
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