Nearly all students from low‑income households
Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education.
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My students live in an urban, low-income outskirt of a major city that thrives with diversity and livelihood but also presents many challenges for them each and every day. I admire my students most because many yearn for estranged family members, are cared for by working single parents, and are working to master two languages, all before the age of eight. Each day they wake up and come to school they are courageous, and each day that they raise a hand, ask a question, or read a sentence, they prove that despite all obstacles in life they have every chance to succeed because of their own will and desire to learn. As first graders, my students are not jaded by the world and still giggle at my puppet companions and marvel at simple science projects. They voraciously tear through the few buckets of books in my classroom library with the wonderment and cheer that can only exist in a first grade classroom.
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My students live in an urban, low-income outskirt of a major city that thrives with diversity and livelihood but also presents many challenges for them each and every day. I admire my students most because many yearn for estranged family members, are cared for by working single parents, and are working to master two languages, all before the age of eight. Each day they wake up and come to school they are courageous, and each day that they raise a hand, ask a question, or read a sentence, they prove that despite all obstacles in life they have every chance to succeed because of their own will and desire to learn. As first graders, my students are not jaded by the world and still giggle at my puppet companions and marvel at simple science projects. They voraciously tear through the few buckets of books in my classroom library with the wonderment and cheer that can only exist in a first grade classroom.