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Youth Worker Portrait

I was in the tenth grade when I started slacking off in school and putting my homework on the back-burner. My parents started arguing more, no way to concentrate and always worrying about what would happen next. I would attend school just as an escape from my home life. I was now failing two classed and my parents were called in to have a meeting with the school principal on some ways to help me pass. It was because of that meeting that I met my student support teacher, Mrs. Barlow. I remember walking into her small room for the first time and her greeting me with a huge smile and saying, “Whatever happens in this room, stays in this room.” It was warm and welcome, I finally felt a sense of relief. As the school year went on Mrs. Barlow and I formed an inseparable bond. She was my home away from home, my go-to, someone I could finally rely on. I opened up to her about my home life and how it made me feel and the reason behind slacking off. Student support offered me ex...
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Social Injustice

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A time in my life where I have observed social injustice is really everyday when I am logging into facebook. Majority of my friends, co-workers, former teachers, and family post and comment on political ads, statuses and images. Promoting equal rights, fair trade, fighting climate change, women's rights, etc. All of those things are great to share and promote change, but it also comes with negative comments, and people's harsh opinions. I have learned over time that you can not change someone else's views, or make them believe what you are saying. I have seen fights on facebook about who should win, calling people names, bashing someones status, and so on. We want change in this world but bringing hate to the table will not get us there. We need to educate ourselves and when commenting on something make sure it makes sense and try not to hurt that person's feeling or shove your opinion down their throat. Usually my natural reaction when I see a hate status, or something...
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Young Adults #2

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Teenagers are often viewed, as either knows it all’s or inexperienced young people. As “adults we believe we know youth – we once were youth”.   Growing up my mom used to say, “I was once your age”, and I never put any thought into it up until recently. As I am growing up I notice that times are changing and the adult figures in our life often times don’t realize that, but maybe they should. Everything is changing around us and the generations are not the same from when it was 20+ years ago. In my opinion, I think adults have a hard time understanding that youths are young adults and they have a voice and they are able to speak their opinion. It is also important to note that factors that this social construct ignore is: gender, race, class, culture, and more. Adults often view youth as immature, or say they haven’t experienced life yet. In her study of elementary school playground culture Thorne argues that, "to learn from children, adults have to challenge the deep a...
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