Hairdressing, training program. Host she is a young mother. Guess who she is a young mom, beautiful little girl. Every stretch she is doing quite well but there were some very rough patches. Host blaher . Guest blair is more difficult to talk about. Blair was a student who reminded me the most of myself, very precocious kid. She was a stephen king fan at first and began talking about stephen king. Her grandmother raised her said her vision was that blair would become a lawyer and she certainly have those talents. Blair dropped out of school and she dropped out in ninth grade. She couldnt finish high school and she ended up trying and trying to go back and get her ged and wasnt able to do that. Currently the last i checked in with her she was working the night cleaning job in an Office Building so Something Like a big urban Office Building cleaning at night on the night shift. Host mariah . Guest mariah got married, divorced, had another relationship and had two lovely children, finishe
And because of that doing well and then i did not know how to give in or apply got a letter saying i had a scholarship because a Wonderful Group of women had given me a scholarship. Host how did you get connected with them . Guest i can remember. They probably heard about me through highschool someone said she can make it. Event then it was easy for me to excel and keep going then went on for graduate degrees. I went on to college but then i have come back and helped my own own people, the people who are my people, working class people so i feel like yeah i have had to give up somewhat who i was but now i can come back and i can help the people who are like me. But so were you treated with suspicion back home being the first to go to college . Is at the wrong word . Guest i think its a very prospective perspective word. I think that people like me who are kind of bookish poor workingclass kids people think shes a little bit different. You know shes not exactly like everybody else aroun
Arts education at all. As a matter of fact people who actually read and think and write are in surprisingly short supply. I have a friend who has a business and she heard a couple of people. Her job was to write catalog and amazon product descriptions. They came out with a distinguished Marketing Program and they could not write a coherent paragraph. She was like having to rewrite them. There is a lot of demand for people who can actually read and think and write. Its significantly unmet demand right now. Its not that there is no role for liberal arts. I think when people do get on their high horse about engineering but think the perception is engineering has remained a rigorous subject. If you go to school in Industrial Engineering or Mechanical Engineering you come out knowing a largely agreed upon body of stuff and its important stuff for when he do it works. I think there is not not the sense anymore that when you get a liberal Arts Education that you do something similar. I think
Charter schools are run by forprofit entities. That is a very different environment. In the environment there is so much mistrust so i think any time he gets into charter he brings in a chain and this is the beginning of a different sort of an effort. But from the outside it does not smell right. So much of the issue is localized so would his uniform if we create more space for a public Charter Schools and they are Public Schools with the autonomy they should be held to the same transparency standards. To the greatest extent possible any City Building space for a district to be better and for Charter Schools to be innovative need to create the most level Playing Field possible. And to be transparent as they can be and that is the biggest tragedy. When the Chicago Teacher strike was happening the title of the article is a part of buses dying in chicago. Of wind things like that happens our ongoing ability to maintain tenuously a hold on a Democratic Society admits to a larger engine of
Is a huge thing in their favor, but they have not gone the way of their moms. They said to themselves, we want Something Better for our lives and we dont want to go there and they didnt. Host Deborah Hicks where do you think you were successful and where do you think you would do things differently . Guest i think we were very successful. We had an intimacy. We had a super successful class. We had seven girls who are attaching themselves to school, loving literature and loving books, loving a school like experience in the teacher. I think the biggest challenge i faced was just about the time that my class finished i had to leave to come back to my home state and found my nonprofit that i was thinking about founding. The biggest difficulty was not being able to kind of finish the class when the girls were entering adolescence. Thats why when i found my new i made sure we were serving girls on the middle school years. We are trying to work with students, girls in the years when they are