RCSD educator
Many educators see just one option – a total reboot of the system. That must start with understanding each student, the challenges they face in the classroom, and providing them with the resources they need on the path to graduation. Here is Avery’s story:
“So if you’re saying the district is to become innovative and come into the 21st century in how we’re going to teach kids, we have to meet them where they are. You got to deprogram and reprogram. Summer schools should be not catching up on the work you missed from September to June. Summer school should be preparing you to go back into the school building – not do what you did last year. It should be addressing those issues that didn’t allow you to excel, to be the best person that you can possibly be. There’s a lot of things that could be done, but the people in those positions, it doesn’t benefit them. So they’re not changing nothing. We can talk all day, we can write all the reports. They’re not changing.
“We got to get to the young people. We just got to mobilize the youth and we have to sit down and have a conversation, and the conversation starts off with a question. Who are you really? Are you really who you say that you are? What happened? Tell us what happened? And do you seriously want to graduate because if you do truly want to graduate, you got to modify, you got to change. You got to transform, transcend, and transition or else you want to be left behind and you become a pawn in the game.”
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