Education

I leave for Boston tomorrow. I am going to Boston for a week long training for City Year. As I pack I am getting excited to see old friends who have moved away to help City Year in a different areas of the country, to have a long car ride with friends and co-workers who I have a lot of fun with and admire, and just general excitement to have the opportunity to travel to an amazing city that is rich in culture, history, and academics. Even though I have a lot of excitement I also go to Boston with a lot on my mind. I am going to be trained to be better at my job which requires me to shape and mold 150 high school age youth into young and socially conscience people but yet I am extremely disappointed in what is going on in our education system. This past year I have realized that I am passionate about education, in particular the education inequity in our society. I have just begun my research on the topic and I have started at the top with our federal government and my findings (which I will delve deeper into in another blog) have been quite disturbing, I just cannot fathom the idea of spending such a small amount of money on education, something so extremely important and not giving our youth the opportunity to strive in our society. The government, federal and state, is denying the basic essentials to the future of our nation. I am finding it extremely embarassing that the nation we call home is the wealthiest and greediest in the world and yet our education system is not even in the top 10. This is just the tip of the iceberg of my blogs on my outrage of our education. But I just wanted to state that in my excitement for Boston I am going there with a deeper purpose. I am going to Boston to learn as much as possible so I can bring it back to Philadelphia so I can teach the youth of Philly what they are not learning in their schools, so I can give them an opportunity to grow, become passionate, hopeful, determined young adults.

As I begin my second year of City Year I am making a promise to myself: I will give my all to help the youth of Philadelphia recieve what they are being denied. As I begin my second year of City Year I am making a promose to my kids: I will not let you down.