My students are highly intelligent, hard-working scholars almost entirely from underprivileged Harlem and South Bronx. Since I teach an AP class, my students are part of an early college program in which they take multiple college level courses as juniors and seniors. Their program promises them laptops to keep up with the rigor of the college level, however my students were informed they would not be given them until their graduation.
My students come from low-income homes and simply want the chance to apply their knowledge and drive for education so that they can succeed.
I have heard countless stories from my kids about how they aspire to be the first person in their family to attend college and better the situations of their family members and members of their community. This project will help give them that fighting chance.
My Project
Our students in the early college program participate in multiple college level classes at once. With technological advances in education, high school and college classes are shifting towards being run via online forums such as google classroom, blackboard, etc. Our early college classes are no exception. Many of our best and brightest are fighting to remain afloat in these classes, having used a laptop only a handful of times in their lives. Scholars in this early college group have been given laptops from our organization in the past, however that is not longer part of our budget. In order to continue their growth and stop the growing discrepancy of technological skills in urban and suburban communities, students like ours must be given the fair chance to progress with development of technological education. The development of communities like Harlem depend on investment in these individuals.
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