1. What do i think about the achevement gap?
I think the gap is caused by schools leting students pass with F's

2. What can students do to close the gap?
We can stop gangs and try harder inschool no matter what. Also we can start study groups.

3. what can parents do?
Parents can start asking what are homework is and make us go to summer school. they can hire tuters to help us catch up.

4. What can the teachers do?
Teachers should have hyer expectations of us and they should help us to succede. also we can bring tuters to schools.

what did you think of tom hayden?
I thought he was uninterested in us.
Do i see tom hayden as a civil rights leader?
No he doesn't seem like a leader?
Tom hayden feels that leaders are not as important as the hundreds or thousands of people behind them. What does he mean?
I think he means that leaders arent leaders without followers.

free write

This winter i am going to montana to visit my uncle. I'm going to go snowboarding while I'm up there. My grades are going up sugnifigently. Now I think my grades are all above.

Stop hurting yourself.

Ithink that mr. hsu put that sign up there to tell us to stop hurting ourselfs emotionally and physically. People can hurt themselves emotionally by getting stressed out becuase ms. blanco gives us to much homework, and just being stressed out in general. People can also hurt themselves by putting down others. Putting guilt on themselves and emotional damage on the person that they were putting down. I used to have a friend that made fun of all the unpopular kids. He has no friends now and he probibly will never have friends again.