For this
blog, I am going to discuss the three videos that we had to watch and also
about the students are going to be visiting Loyola next Friday.
First off,
the video about the Inequalities in Education in Chicago was very well done. I
was impressed with the graphics and overall presentation of it because this is
a subject that needs everyone’s attention, and the video certainty got mine. I
was extremely surprised by the crazy statistics in the video! It gave us a lot of
information in a very short amount of time. It is unbelievable that these
things are happening right around us. However, this does remind of the conversation
we had in our meeting regarding statistics. Statistics can easily be
manipulated to purposely prove your point, and disprove another. While there
were a lot of good statistics in the video, I wouldn’t put too much weight onto
them until they are either proved true or further explained. The video did make
a good point though about how the whole system is a cycle. There are not many
people leaving the system just because of outside factors and living conditions
and are stuck with the system in place. It is especially terrible for teachers.
They have it a lot worse than people probably realize. For most of these
children, they take on a much bigger role than just teacher. I think that that
is completely wrong. It should not be the teacher’s responsibility to make sure
all a student’s life is all in order outside of school. That’s a job for the
parents/guardians. Also, you can’t expect a teacher to help fill in that role
with all of his/her students. My only complaint of the video as a whole was
that she did not offer a solution to the problem. She just sort of left it open
and didn’t say how we can really help. It would have been much better if she
provided a course of action that we could take, but overall, I thought it was a
great video.
The “Louder Than a Bomb: High School Training
Ground” video was very moving to me. I am very interested in lyric-based rap
music and freestyles so to me, this video was amazingly done. First off, that
boy had some very good verses. He made a lot of valid points and none I think
were truer than when he said the public schools in Chicago are actually in fact
succeeding at their real purpose which is, “Preparing young people for a future that mimics the problems
and contradictions of society as a whole.” He is saying that things are the way
they are because in order for one person to succeed in our capitalism-based
system, one must fall. He is saying that they are the ones taking the fall and
that is not fair at all.
The “Inspiration: How Bad Do You Want It?”
video was amazing. It was very inspirational to me. It had the montage of a football
player and I also played football in high school so I was able to relate as to
how hard some players train and how much motivation you need. I would say that
my source of motivation is my desire to succeed. I want to be successful at
everything that I commit myself to. I know that if I succeed, then I will be
happy with myself. As long as I have support from my friends and family, I know
that I will do well.
On a
closing note, I am very excited to meet the students from Amundsen High School this Friday. I am
interested to see what expectations of the students have of us as college
students. I hope that we get to do some one-on-one interactions with them even
though we are only on a panel. Either way, I think that we can have a very good
influence on them and hopefully help them with whatever it is that they might
need.
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