Being a Student Teacher

THREE months from now, I’ll be a student teacher helping out poor high school kids cope up in a low-income institution here in Oregon. As a math major in my third year in college and coming from a poor community myself, I’ve been craving to help high school kids. I empathize with them because I’ve been through what they’ve experienced – coping with drugs, struggling not to become violent and rob and vandalize properties that are not ours, etc. My peers who have fared better went on to become soldiers in Iraq because they can’t go to college. I don’t want to die early. That’s why I struggled hard to be in college some two years ago. I failed in university entrance exams because the education atmosphere in our public high school was not that okay because the No Child Left Behind policy was only implemented long after I’d graduated already. And so I tried to apply for student loans from Sallie Mae and it was good that I had passed.

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