Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich-Pg. 151
Room 133 contains a bed, a chair, a chest of drawers, and a TV fastened to the wall. I plead for and get a lamp to supplement the single overhead bulb. Instead of the mold smell, I now breath a mixture of fresh paint and what eventually identify as mouse droppings. But the real problems are all window and door related; the single small window has no screen and the room has no AC or fan. The curtain is transparently thin; the door has no bolt.
High schools have math and science, social studies, history and English, and a short period of lunch. But they don't offer classes on how to be a teenager or yourself. Instead of being guided, students are required to know how to handle tons of homework and social interaction between peers. Students should be given more opportunities to reach out for help; classes centered around social acceptance and support groups on handling school work or making friends. Students would be more successful; in their career or social life.
Hey Purvi, I loved the topic you chose to write about. If classes like the ones you mentioned did exist, high school would be a lot easier, not the work but just being there in general. Most freshmen need courses like that, since they are just entering hish school and may need help making that transission ( I think I spelled that right). Anyway, I have no negative feed back. Keep up the good work :)
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