Personal Narrative: My Visit To DCP El Camino Middle School

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DCP El Camino Middle school is a great school that believes every student has the potential to succeed. The administration and teachers do their best to ensure that the students get the best education possible. Since the first day I visited DCP, I saw plenty of potential in the students and a strong sense of community, which is something I have not seen in other schools. As a future professor, I want to work in schools where there is a sense of strong community. DCP has also reinforced the idea of working with my gente, the Latino community. As a future professor, not only I will be teaching students about the Spanish culture, language and literature, but I will prepare them for college and to make this society a better place for all.
I was impressed with the courage of the students who
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Haro’s class, I observed the groups 5 and 6, which were by the main door. These two groups were abandoned because they were the ones that received less attention from Ms. Haro. Moreover, group 6 was the loudness group. So Why have Ms. Haro put those six students in the same group? and Why Ms. Haro have not separated them? Maybe Ms. Haro is afraid that these particular students will disturb the other students. Furthermore, in group 6, three students did not have their backpacks or the necessary materials to do the classwork. Therefore, I asked Andres, a smart and shy person. By the way, Andres is half Mexican and Salvadorian. He said that his mother did mother had no money to buy him a new backpack. As a matter of fact, he said that every time he asks his mother to buy him school materials, she tend to get mad. In addition, Andres said that he does not know his father, which makes everything difficult because his mother cannot afford to buy some of the materials he needs for school. Similarly, during the journal writing process, I saw two ladies sharing one pencil. This act caught my attention because it demonstrates the strong relationship of those particular

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