Sunday, January 16, 2011

A word from the creators

Welcome to Memoirs from a failing urban school.  This blog has been created with two clear intentions: to show the undeniable and persistent spirit of the students who will become the future leaders of our country, and to expose/critique/commend the public school system that is currently struggling on a national level to service these children.  This blog is one attempt to convey the immensity and severity of the current educational situation that is going on in our country at this moment.  In many ways, education has not been a serious priority in comparison with other national issues, and this lack of attention has created a plethora of problems that are only tentatively being resolved.  The task that many of the students, teachers and staff are facing in schools across the country (urban schools in particular) is one that is so large, and yet the importance of this task is drastically overlooked by most citizens with the power to make the necessary change.  The people who walk through the buildings of our urban schools every day do nothing less than regularly create unpublicized miracles.  This blog is an attempt to record and share these miracles, as well as the multiple setbacks that occur beforehand, making these miracles all the more unbelievable and rewarding.  Unlike many other texts on urban schools, this blog will be multi-faceted in that posts will be written by a variety of members from these communities, in a variety of formats.  Ideally, this blog will function as a "collage" or "zine," bringing a rawness to the information available on urban schools by blending the funny, sad, trivial, momentous, fantastical, honest, intuitive, enlightening and regular occurrences that create the daily experience of working and attending a failing urban school.  It is my personal hope that someday the appeal of these words will be in their historical worth rather than their unfortunate (but inspiring) reality.

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