Sunday, September 14, 2008

New Trier has no idea

i constantly hear students complaining about, new trier, arguably one of the best highschools in the nation, and this makes me sick. the fact that people even complain about this school is ridiculous because it has so much more then most schools. the ones who should be complaining are the students of inner city schools that have nothing. i have a brother who is currently doing Teach for America. this is a program where applicants are chosen to teach at not your typical good area. he resides in memphis right now and is teaching at one of the worst schools in the city. not only does the school have bad funding but the atmosphere that the students live in is not making any matters better. the classes have many students and there is not enough materials for each student. my brother is a chemistry teacher and he doesnt even have enough materials to do demos or even labs. yet on the other hand nths is not going to now or even in the near future have a problem with getting enough materials for students and teachers. newtriers atmosphere is great and i will slap anyone in the face that says they dont feel safe at this school. my brothers highschool on the other hand is not very safe. students pull fire alarms in order to go outside and have gang fights for initiation into either the bloods or the crips. even teachers get punched in the face for gang initiation. i dont know about you but after i think about these situations and think about how hard it would be to grow up without materials and live in a bad atmosphere it would not even cross my mind to complain about newtrier.

2 comments:

Adam said...

I agree with your post. Most of us really don't understand how good we have it at New Trier. But I think more and more students are beginning to understand how hard less fortunate students have it. The recent CPS events have started to awaken more and more New Trier students. As more and more of us learn about this topic, we are starting to truly appreciate the luxuries we have.

Adam said...

NEW TRIER FOOTBALL RULES.