8 February 2014 Period 6 Giving Community 100 Hours for Your Diploma The District of Columbia was one of the first large school districts to include community service as a graduation requirement. The community service requirement aims to equip students with the necessary skills and abilities for careers as well as to motivate students to take an active role as leaders in their communities. Community service hours also appear on your high school transcripts, which leads to an upper hand in the college of your choice. College administrators love seeing youth take a role and help their communities; there are so many helpful advantages to this requirement. I for one agree with school boards requiring 100 hours of community service to graduate.
I think it is because of two basic reasons; firstly, as Tatum points out, one can relate better with peers of their own race because they too understand the difficulties of being a minority. I think she really made a great point, how can we expect a white person to understand the racism towards African Americans. Ms. Tatum gave an example regarding a 9th grade substitute teacher suggesting four-year colleges to all her white students and suggesting that a black adolescent male in her class go to a community college. It would be almost silly for that African American boy to sympathize with one of the white peers, not only would it be hard to relate to each other, it would be downright embarrassing. I actually think that the white teenager wouldn’t be able to see why the colored boy was hurt, they would just brush it off and give an explanation like “oh the teacher didn’t mean it like that”.
CASL Essay Assignment I would like to attend the CASL conference so that I can further my leadership journey. By going to CASL it will help me to grow in my abilities and qualities. When I grow, not only would I benefit myself as a better leader but our school would benefit also in their representation and leadership program. I would also like to attend CASL so that I can learn about service projects. I am very interested in starting a specific service project my junior year for CAS hours and this would be a great help to me with that.
The eye of the storm When reading the article on how interracial roommates can reduce prejudices, it seemed to me that the researchers were inferring that African-American students cannot do well academically without being accompanied by white students. Even though these are actual results from a study, I do not believe this to be true. To me it’s almost like saying that when African American students are amongst each other in a predominately black school that their academic standings are poor. I am not saying that this is the case, but I am entitled to my opinion. At Indiana University, “the study found that whites pre-existing negative racial attitudes predicted which roommates arrangements would break-up.” I seem to find to this finding true.
Another topic that is mentioned in the book is “Racism”. Most kids already witnessed the act of racism against one another. Others don’t realize how its holding us back from moving on. When I say moving on I mean African Americans who have a background of slavery and known for mistreat from other race (white). Parents should realize how it’s important for kids to know the past and present and therefore Toni Morrison gives us a little of the background past for African Americans depicting how hard it was for her people to survive in such town in which most people strive to survive everyday.
I believe high school students should read this to understand what exactly it was like to be an African American slave during that pastime. This book helps them to realize life was much different back then. Such as an owner of a slave could do anything to them.
My personal plan for my academic future is to push myself to do better in school and achieve the goal that I set for myself of a 4.0 GPA. By doing this it will show future employers of my dedication to not only my studies but to my future dedication that I can bring to their company. As for as my personal plan for my career future, I know that my degree of choice is very versatile to many different types of companies. I am, also, open to expanding my knowledge in the business field because I think that I can be of use in any different areas of many different businesses. By completing my degree and achieving
Many times, Black students at majority schools feel as though they have to put on a façade in order to “fit-in” with students of other races. The family-oriented environment of HBCUs allows students to let their guards down without fear of being ostracized or judged. Each student feels connected to one another, as well as closely related to their ancestors who established these universities. Kinship is an essential aspect of Black college history and part of an important basis for the continuation of HBCUs. The significance of the history of HBCUs is cherished not only by past and present students, but as well as future students.
Another study of eight schools in North Carolina confirmed that there was some social penalty for high achievement for both races, but in only one of the schools were there reports of a strong racial element to this stigmatization (Tyson, and Castellino 2005). It did appear that qualified black students sometimes avoided taking advanced placement classes, but that was due more to a concern with being socially isolated (as possibly the only black student in class), rather than a concern with being criticized by their black
It’s unjust to give the kids who were born in affluent families more opportunities and more tools to build their future than the less fortunate, poor, lower class students. These kids who were born in third world countries usually come to America willing or against their will. This change in country is solemnly to provide a brighter future with as many opportunities as possible to the immigrants’ children. As Nazario wrote referring to Carmen: “She left for the United States out of love. She hoped she could provide her children an escape from their grinding poverty, a chance to attend school beyond the sixth grade.” (Nazario Prologue X).