The achievement gap

1. what do you think causes the achievement gap?

• Kids not trying their hardest
• Parents not pushing their kids
• The curriculum at school

2. What can students do to close the gap?

• they can try harder and concentrate on school.
• do their work and finish assignments.
• have contest with some friends like to see who could get the highest grade.

3. What can parents do?

• get involved with their kids.
• keep a tight relationship with their kids
• give their kids encouragement(say good job and give a lot of moral support)

4. What can teachers/schools do?

• make the class work fun.
• give out rewards to the kids who do good.
• tell the kids that they did good and encourage them.

Quesions about Tom Hayden

1. what did you think of Mr. hayden?

• it first i thought he was going to be an old grupy guy, but he was really nice and he made every one laugh.

2.tom hayden doesnt think of himself as a civil rights leader. do you see him as one?why or why not?

• he is on a certain degree, because there were many people that took it was farther than he did. I do because he did more that i would have probably done, but i havent really tried anything yet.

3. Tom feels taht leaders are not as important as the hundreds or thousands of peoplebehind them. what does he mean by that?

• i think hes saying that the leaders are just speakers and its the people that are protesting are the main attraction.

dis week :]

This week was cool.... I did this thing at palms for our school.... like a recruitment ting.... And yeah.... Tonight im going to dinner with my boyfriend and his parents and my dad...I hope it goes well.... and yeah... I want to go to the basketball game... but I dunno if I can.. sooo yeah... ill post laters!!

stop HURTING yourself

I think the sign is saying like not to do things to yourself that will hurt you and possibly others. you really have to think about the upsides and down sides of the situation. i have a lot of situations and I have to think about them everyday, but id rather not talk about it, and I have to make a lot of decision. Sometimes you have to make decisions for your self, and that might not make the other person like you or hold a grudge on you. One example of a student hurting herself was yesterday where she drank alcohol and passed out. She threw up on the computer and had to go to the hospital. It was a very serious thing and she really should have thought about the consequences first, like if shell get in trouble, or who will it effect?? Something like that ... And yeah... I think it was really stupid to drink at school in the first place.