Elisabeth

Hi! This is Elisabeth; here is my true story that disappointed me a lot. One day at Hewitt we had community service day, where we went to a public school in Harlem. It was called "P.S 96".When I first walked in it was very different for me because there was an angry looking police officer that looked quite bored in fact. When in my case at my school we always have a nice man at the desk greeting us with a warm smile. Then as we headed in the little first graders class room, the room looked like an average 1st grade classroom, with bright colors, lots of books and more. But when our grade started to relax, and take off our coat to sit down, a group of about 7th to 8th graders walked by in the halls, and glanced at us through the doors. Not in a good way. Almost with disgust as if we were so superior and more mean that we hated them so much. Anyway I just thought "whatever" and greeted my buddy. I was in the classroom with the children that had mental issues so that could have affected my opinion too. Anyway we sat down and we started to read a book to them that my teacher assigned us to read. We started to read and a boy in the class made stupid and silly comments that did not have anything to do with the book at all. The teacher corrected him only once then as the boy kept repeating the silly comments the teacher all together ignored him completely! Later on the teacher was not welcoming and looked like the job was only for the money and had nothing better to do, which was disappointing. It was not the child with the mental issues that disappointed me. It was the teacher and how she neglected the kids. All in all I had a great time with the children but obviously not the teachers. - Thank you for reading ! J