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My name is Chantel James. I was born October 26,
1988 and grew up in Boston,
Massachusetts. I have one brother (13). I’m over energetic, usually smiling
and I hate mornings, they
feel like death. I hate dogs, clowns, and kids. I love
sleeping, eating, and talking to myself. We want to
expose that there is a
difference between school districts and types of schools. As a
student in the Boston Public Schools, I have been
faced with many obstacles that have had the power to shatter my
future. However, obstacles with this power have enabled me to grow
as a student and as an adult in many ways. When I look back to me
as a freshman, I wasn’t able to take someone correcting my writing.
I actually would get very upset. I am now able to take direct
criticism towards my work without being extremely hurt. Moreover,
I’ve learned that criticism helps me grow throughout my writing.
One main way that obstacles have enabled me to grow is by me taking
my education seriously. If I don’t take it seriously, no one will.
I’ve also concluded that even though I don’t have an abundance of
resources, it’s my responsibility to use all the
resources that I am given to the fullest and to
remember that an education has the same amount of power, no matter
where you go and it’s up to me to treat it that way. The reason why
I said that being a BPS student, I’m faced with many obstacles
because automatically when I say that I’m a BPS student, I’m
labeled as inferior and people begin to look down at you, even
other kids in the BPS system. I remember leaving a charter high
school and going to a pilot school. The kids at my old charter
school actually looked down at the kids in my school. Moreover, we
look down at kids in public schools, unconsciously. It’s due to
stereotypes put in front of us. Moreover,
it’s our decision to fulfill that stereotype or to break it and
surprise them all. My goal of doing this project is to expose the
differences between school districts. Moreover,
I want to
inform many that youth leadership can happen anywhere, it’s up to
us teens to make it happen.
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