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  • M.C. Williams Middle School
  • Houston, TX
  • 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. Learn more

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The principal and I worked together at another school. He witnessed that program grow from 60 to over 250. When he became a principal at this campus, he recruited me to be on his team. The students at this school are economically some of the poorest in our district and the nation. Their expectations of life are driven by TV and hearing hip hop music. One child told me he didn't need to know how to read music because the high school he was going to didn't read at all. The parents I have spoken to see school as a place where children should be "Raised to work. Home is where they sleep and eat". They hear people talk about college but have no idea of how to get there. They see the posters but feel they do not have the tools, talents, or resources to get them there. Since this is generational poverty, their parents (like mine) have no idea of what to do to help their children out of the situation that they and their parents grew up in. They don't know what success looks or feels like.

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The principal and I worked together at another school. He witnessed that program grow from 60 to over 250. When he became a principal at this campus, he recruited me to be on his team. The students at this school are economically some of the poorest in our district and the nation. Their expectations of life are driven by TV and hearing hip hop music. One child told me he didn't need to know how to read music because the high school he was going to didn't read at all. The parents I have spoken to see school as a place where children should be "Raised to work. Home is where they sleep and eat". They hear people talk about college but have no idea of how to get there. They see the posters but feel they do not have the tools, talents, or resources to get them there. Since this is generational poverty, their parents (like mine) have no idea of what to do to help their children out of the situation that they and their parents grew up in. They don't know what success looks or feels like.

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