Hard Knocks of Commerce
There is a group of various reporters going from the east to the west coast to report on the hardships due to division in this country, weather that is education, healthcare, or immigration. The group is known as Crossing the Divide, or XtheDivide (social media handle). Eric Bosco is one of the bloggers that report for Crossing the Divide, and he wrote a article about hardships and the reputation of The High School of Commerce in Massachusetts. The school has various problems such as education inequality, disadvantage in education opportunities, and many outside factors that impact the student's life outside of school. Eric Bosco uses logical appeal and pathos to persuade readers that Commerce is a bad school, but it is getting better.
The High School of Commerce is known by the community as a “failing” …show more content…
“Some of the traumatic events that you hear about are heartbreaking, they’re immense and then you have the more everyday, more frequent episodes of trauma that would disrupt anyone like moving or anxiety and depression, those are commonplace, they can go unnoticed and untreated,” Damboise exclaims. Bosco mentions the quote above to provide a physical account of a teacher in Commerce that hears what students that attend Commerce go through on a daily basis growing up in the city compared to suburbs. Boscos explains multiple stats and accounts to back up what Damboise says. For example, “In 1980, the median household income in Springfield was about $13,000 while the median Longmeadow household earned $32,000 annually, according to time-adjusted U.S. Census data. And now, the median Longmeadow household income stands at about $111,000 while Springfield’s figure rests at about $34,000 — a nearly 400 percent increase in the gap between the town and the city,” states Bosco. The quote means that Springfield (Commerce) averages lower income than
There is a group of various reporters going from the east to the west coast to report on the hardships due to division in this country, weather that is education, healthcare, or immigration. The group is known as Crossing the Divide, or XtheDivide (social media handle). Eric Bosco is one of the bloggers that report for Crossing the Divide, and he wrote a article about hardships and the reputation of The High School of Commerce in Massachusetts. The school has various problems such as education inequality, disadvantage in education opportunities, and many outside factors that impact the student's life outside of school. Eric Bosco uses logical appeal and pathos to persuade readers that Commerce is a bad school, but it is getting better.
The High School of Commerce is known by the community as a “failing” …show more content…
“Some of the traumatic events that you hear about are heartbreaking, they’re immense and then you have the more everyday, more frequent episodes of trauma that would disrupt anyone like moving or anxiety and depression, those are commonplace, they can go unnoticed and untreated,” Damboise exclaims. Bosco mentions the quote above to provide a physical account of a teacher in Commerce that hears what students that attend Commerce go through on a daily basis growing up in the city compared to suburbs. Boscos explains multiple stats and accounts to back up what Damboise says. For example, “In 1980, the median household income in Springfield was about $13,000 while the median Longmeadow household earned $32,000 annually, according to time-adjusted U.S. Census data. And now, the median Longmeadow household income stands at about $111,000 while Springfield’s figure rests at about $34,000 — a nearly 400 percent increase in the gap between the town and the city,” states Bosco. The quote means that Springfield (Commerce) averages lower income than