This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because
it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.
My Students
Our paper recycling program helps us to fund our special education students at DHS, but it's hard to carry the recycling boxes, especially since some of the students are physically challenged. We need a hand truck to help us carry the recycling boxes to the recycling bins.
We are a public high school in Downey, California.
My students are the most awesome young adults that learn how to apply basic and life skills like cooking, using money, community safety,communication skills, socialization skills, and job skills. They learn how to become as independent as they possibly can. Through socialization with the general education population at our school, mutual understanding is shared, and friendships are developed that are lasting and change paradigms and lives. Seeing a transformation like this is one of the most beautiful things I have ever had the pleasure to participate in, and I consider it an honor to know both the special population and the general education population that I have been introduced to here at this school. Anyone who has lost faith in the current generation needs to come here and witness this!
My Project
My students have always had people giving to them, but they don't always get a chance to give back to their community and they don't always get a chance to help themselves. By working hard collecting and recycling paper, they see actual income from their labor, and they get to decide what to do with their money they earn. This program has just started here at DHS. Hopefully it will grow to support a program that will employ special needs adults after they exit the public education system and keep giving back to special education, enabling these students to see firsthand how they can help themselves and help others at the same time.
Recycling is vitally important to maintain a healthy environment.
Students need to be taught how important it is to keep the earth clean and to use products that can be reused and recycled. Special needs students, especially, need to be taught that they can do something to help with this. They are an important part of helping with our planet, and they are vital to our environment.
More than half of 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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