Topic > Graduation Speech: A Future Teacher - 728

As a future teacher I want to be as fair as possible towards my future students, regardless of their ethnicity, gender or economic status. I grew up in an area where the majority of the people were Hispanic, most of the students in school were Hispanic, the second largest ethnicity where African Americans still dominate, but Hispanics. Growing up in this rural area, you can see how discriminatory things can be when it comes to academic opportunities for students. My high school was one of the largest for HISD, but was known for its bad reputation. Before attending Sam Houston Math Science Technology Center (MSTC). He was known simply as Sam Houston, the high school that had the most fights every week, police officers everywhere, and got locked down almost every other week. The school had to be closed, and when it changed its name to Sam Houston MSTC and reopened, the middle school was separated from the upper classes and created a nine-class center in the outer buildings while the upper classes remained in the building original. After rebuilding the school and renaming it...