I am a teaching assistant working in a District 75 school. Working with severe emotionally disturbed students ages 12-14 that want to become great athletes. We are a Title I school with limited funds. My students struggle to do the best they can given limited resources. I try to nurture their talents both inside and outside of the classroom.
I know that given the right support, motivation and resources my students can grow.
Their disabilities are no excuse for not succeeding. They know it is not a reason to give up before trying.
My Project
My middle school is a New York City Department of Education school located in the Bronx, New York, where there are the most at-risk teens to violence, drugs, and gangs. I started working with the team to help motivate teens to take part in positive extracurricular activities.
With track and field being so popular in the school, uniforms are the hardest things to come by.
Student-athletes do not have uniforms. The team doesn’t have warm-up uniforms. With a majority of the student body coming from economically disadvantaged households, having athletes purchase their own uniforms is not a realistic option and the track team budget is minuscule. Therefore, I write to you today in the hopes that your company can assist us with a donation of uniforms. We need running shirts, and short.
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