Denominator Vs Family

I have always had a horrible relationship with fractions, similar to the relationship I have with life. The confusion of balancing the numerator and the denominator was similar to the confusion I have with balancing family and school. I come from a family with six children all raised by an immigrant single mother on government social programs. Welfare, Cash Aid, and Medi-cal were the only thing that was keeping my family going. Being on many social programs it really made me feel like a charity case, but I didn’t know what I could do to make a difference in my future. Until one random day in the second grade when I asked, “why do we have to go to school every day?” My teacher turned to the class and explained “we wake up every day so early in the morning to work for our future, to get good grades, and go to college and get well paying jobs.” That is the day I had received the most beneficial and essential information …show more content…
However, that didn’t mean that I was always really good in school because I still had trouble with fractions. Along with that, there was never a role model for sibling and I to look up to especially with my mother’s having a third grade education level. I come from a Somali culture where women look forward to getting married right after high school, rather than getting a college education. Their fraction would be marriage over school, resulting to more government social programs. At a very young age I decided that education is my number one priority. Every once in a while, I would caught myself thinking about my future and see what decision will most benefit me later on. I was determined to make something of myself, and help motivated others around. I didn’t want to be the only one in my family to get education, so I encourage my sibling to make school their first priority