Fifth Blog Prompt: Addressing specific aspects of your service experience, how has that experience related to this writing course’s content and purpose? How might this experience and course content be applied to your personal or professional life?
The first person accounts of the state of the DCPS has really helped me understand the purpose of this course further. The content and purpose of this course is to learn about the current state of the DCPS and DCPCS be able to make an expert evaluation of the problems faced by the systems. This semester I learned so much about the DCPS through the books we read in class and the research required for our assignements, but nothing compares to the actual accounts and experiences I had while volunteering. Through the students I was able to learn the reality of the failure of the DCPS. Witnessing the students being frustrated because they were not able to read, infuriated me and showed me the injustices that are occurring to these kids everyday. I will never forget the experience I've had with these students and I think it has helped me realize what I should be doing with my life.
I always wanted to make a difference. For the past for years I thought I would make that difference by putting criminals in jail/prison being a prosecutor, but now I know that as much as I would love to do that, there are more important agendas on my list. The minorities which happen to be the minority in DC are being neglected and change won't occur because nobody really cares if a little black boy or latino boy cannot read. I however, won't allow this injustice to occur and will fight for civil equity. This course content reinforced the things that I already knew; if you are colored, you don't get a fair chance in America and as much as whites try to deny it, racism is at an all time high.
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