“’The students here are aggressive and relentless about doing well in school,’ says Ysleta Independent School District Superintendent Xavier De La Torre. ‘It’s all about helping kids understand that the trajectory that your life will take is directly tied to how hard you work now, and what you achieve now,’ he explains”
Story Hinckley, “Pioneering Spirit: How One School Helps Latino Students Tackle AP Tests”
This article talks about the way a school achieves that “looming” gap that we always believe is between students of predominantly white schools and those that experience a wider range of students races and cultures. This teacher believes that the same relation that we put within the realm of sports should be pushed into the realm of academics. They key this model is suggesting is push the ideas of competitiveness on to their students, showing them that they must put in the work to get anywhere, and most importantly strive to outdo not only their peers but outdo what they believed they could do. When there is more choice, like suggested by H.R. 106, there are more things given to the students, this takes the “challenge” out of that competitiveness that has pushed this school to achieve AP scores even though their population is 99 percent Latino/Hispanic (limited english) and more than one-third is under the poverty line. Rather than taking out the “choice” of which schools to attend put the funding into these schools that have established a way to make their students care about education again. These students have a passion and are choosing to work hard for their education, even though no one is working for them, in terms of getting their school better funding to help some of the students (with Wifi and food). Opening up the value of a private school should be extended but not without demolishing what schools like these have created.
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