Students and the Status Quo

            Growing up I was never completly poor but I wasnt nearly rich either! So I guess you could say I was in between the middle class and working class..basically known as the lower or the poorer class. In my opinion, I believe that if your parents/guarduans arent from a higher class, your basically svrewed as far as social,and education goes. I for one am a product of this. Not to say that Im not intelliegent, nor coutgoing, I just realize what CPS has done to me as a student. Growing up and going to school at a predominately minority school was even more of a disadvantage. We didnt always have all the materials needed. And lets face it, some of the teachers really didnt care seeing that they were "gonna get paid anyway!'' When given an assignment or being taugh somehting new, it was never explained why! It was always "because I said so!" But shortly after seeing that my education was cut to a minimum my mom tried to change that. So she sent me to a middle class/high class all girl school, which by the way was predomainately white/asian school. There I struggled through it all. Everything was explained very well and emcouraged to ask questions. But of course I didnt want to be considered  the "dumb black girl" in the class. So I never really caught the habit of asking questions and looking "all confused" and what not. There we had all the resoursces to help in assisting you in graduating and becoming a successful citizen or college student. But I realized push that I couldnt conform becaue I never knew the basics in any of the subjects. shortly after I asked to transfer to another public, School. I was allowed and I regret every minute of it. Along the way I had some pretty awesome teachers who pushed me to be all that I am today and told me that as long as i had a brain and a heart beat I could learn and be anything in the world. But, unlike the Catholic school we didnt have unlimited resources. we had to take wnat we could get. We used old books which meant outdated information. We didnt get the funding for more books, better trips, and better software, These schools didnt prepare me for the best nor the worst. In fact wen studying for the ACTs I prepared myself. At that point I decided I wouldnt become a product of CPS. I graduated at the top of my class. Oh, but it didnt stop there! When I got into college it took me a long time to adjust educarion wise! if you ask me, at times i still feel a bit lost. Though some of this may be troubling o read, but its true. None of this was an accident by a long shot. Money and power overule everything, and if you have neither, you wont have anything.