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  • More than half of students from low‑income households

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When I was a middle school student in my district, my parents did not want me to go the middle school where I now teach. Plagued by low academic expectations, it did not do what it needed in advancing its kids' futures. Eleven years later, as I begin my first year with Teach for America teaching in the district where I grew up, the school has completely turned around. Although the school still serves high-need students from a wide variety of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and although many students still face immense challenges in their daily lives, a new administration and faculty and an energized parent base have raised expectations and performance beyond where many thought they could go. Many of my students have low resources, and many were robbed of a high-quality elementary education, but they are all united by a belief that they go to a great school that's only getting better.

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When I was a middle school student in my district, my parents did not want me to go the middle school where I now teach. Plagued by low academic expectations, it did not do what it needed in advancing its kids' futures. Eleven years later, as I begin my first year with Teach for America teaching in the district where I grew up, the school has completely turned around. Although the school still serves high-need students from a wide variety of ethnic and socioeconomic backgrounds, and although many students still face immense challenges in their daily lives, a new administration and faculty and an energized parent base have raised expectations and performance beyond where many thought they could go. Many of my students have low resources, and many were robbed of a high-quality elementary education, but they are all united by a belief that they go to a great school that's only getting better.

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