Introduction
Hello my name is Aiyana Luke, and today I am here to talk to you about my battle to gain literacy. I will be covering ground of my life battle with literacy from elementary to my now college career. I will talk to you about the impact of family, friends, and teacher in this battle. I will also share both ups and down in this process to gain the ability to both read and write.
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I like to first start off with a short story about my upbringing and environment for you, so that you can see all the parts of my life that played a major role in my fight to gain literacy. I was born in Kansas City MO. I lived in a low-income inner city area from grades K-5 in this area is where I attended school. Crime rates where high in my school district, a basic bus ride to school involved fights for seats or sections, swearing, throwing things from the front to the back of the bus. Even the bus driver was fearful to address the behavior of the student on the bus do to the reports of past bus drivers being assaulted.
After the long bus ride to school I finally arrive to the long walk in order to get to the front door of the elemertry school then there were other problems I had to face both drug dealers and gang members were there waiting to sell drugs or try to get children to join their gangs. Some of the children at school during that time I attended were forced to sell drug or were being bullied into selling drugs and joining gangs.
After pasting these 2 obstacles there would be more to press by in the pushing and shoving in the hallways in order to get to my classroom. Once I finally got to class I had to find my seat and some children would not listen in class or sit down, some would throw things at the teacher’s some would swear at the teacher’s, some would hit the teacher’s, so this made it hard for me to trust that trying to gain education in reading or writing or in any area for that matter would ever be easy. At this point in time of my life battle with literacy. I felt like it would never be easy nor would it every be safe to gain education in literacy. this is sad but very ture the very thoughts of learning in a safe place being reality never entered my mind as an option at this time. I just though this must be the way school is because the teacher's or not doing anything to change it better yet stop it. So this is just the way it is and I just have to deal with it because if I go home and tell my mother or call my father on the phone and tell them what's going on I know that they will be making a trip up to this school in order to make their own changes and it would not be by following the law so to keep peace. I kept quite went to class and did what so ever work I could get done at the time I did not understand all of the work given. But because I was respectful and did what I was asked I kept getting passing grades at lease up until the 2nd grade and then big problems began. My mother and father started hearing about the crazy thing going on in the public school system. So they made and agreement to work together in order for me to attend a privite school about five to seven blocks from the house we lived in at that time.These or just a few of the battles I had to endure from K- 5 to gain literacy.
After pasting these 2 obstacles there would be more to press by in the pushing and shoving in the hallways in order to get to my classroom. Once I finally got to class I had to find my seat and some children would not listen in class or sit down, some would throw things at the teacher’s some would swear at the teacher’s, some would hit the teacher’s, so this made it hard for me to trust that trying to gain education in reading or writing or in any area for that matter would ever be easy. At this point in time of my life battle with literacy. I felt like it would never be easy nor would it every be safe to gain education in literacy. this is sad but very ture the very thoughts of learning in a safe place being reality never entered my mind as an option at this time. I just though this must be the way school is because the teacher's or not doing anything to change it better yet stop it. So this is just the way it is and I just have to deal with it because if I go home and tell my mother or call my father on the phone and tell them what's going on I know that they will be making a trip up to this school in order to make their own changes and it would not be by following the law so to keep peace. I kept quite went to class and did what so ever work I could get done at the time I did not understand all of the work given. But because I was respectful and did what I was asked I kept getting passing grades at lease up until the 2nd grade and then big problems began. My mother and father started hearing about the crazy thing going on in the public school system. So they made and agreement to work together in order for me to attend a privite school about five to seven blocks from the house we lived in at that time.These or just a few of the battles I had to endure from K- 5 to gain literacy.
Your video was great, you really inspired me to write a little about my history. Thank you. great job
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