Prompt 4

My personal history/sociocultural characteristics dont intersect with the majority of the students in the 2 classes that I come into contact with. I have nothing but disadvantages and challenges teaching a classroom as diverse as was at Asa Messer.
I have grown up in a completely white, middle class neighborhood/area where I maybe had 2-3 African American children in my Elementary School. I have been completely sheltered my whole life and I know think that this was a disadvantage for the field that I want to be in. In being a teacher, your going to meet and come into contact with children from all over the world. From the time that I began college, and in also visiting multiple schools in Providence for tutoring, I have met children/people from places I have never even heard of before and I find this very interesting.
I know that these children have nowhere near as much as I had when I was their age, which makes me sad because I have such fond memories of my childhood. I feel that if I work in an district like the Providence Public School District, then I would try that much harder to make these children want to strive and exceed to get out of the bad situations some of them are in now.