Plans for next year???
At this point I'm not to sure what I plan to do next year. Law school, teaching, Law school part-time and teaching, or maybe I might stay in Mississippi? Who knows... I'm really interested in teaching in a school for incarcerated teens. I think those kids would take their education a lot more seriously than some of the kids I currently teach. All of those kids have already hit rock bottom and really want to get an education so that they can assimilate themselves back into society as a productive citizen. At least I hope so.. I'm extremely frustrated with the lack of effort from my students. I've tried everything I can think of to motivate them, however, this generation of kids, in my opinion, have no respect or sense of urgency in regards to education. They aspire to be lawyers, doctors and business owners etc, but they think that it's just going to happen. It actually pisses me off the way they are so arrogant and cocky about what there going to become when they don't even realize that their illiterate and that there is no possible chance of them becoming a professional doctor or lawyer when they can barely read and write!

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The kids have no doctor/lawyer role models, so they don't have anyone to tell them what it takes to become a doctor/lawyer. They have plenty of rappers who send the message that pimping and hustling drugs will make them rap stars though. It's a pretty bleak commentary, which is why our kids do not hustle in their school work the way they need to in order to be successful in legal/productive ways.
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