Essay: My Experience At Saint Matthews Public School

Growing up, I was taught at all different kinds of schools and places. The first school I was taught at was a private faith-centered school, called Saint Matthews Catholic School. Saint Matthews was an elementary school that went up to the 6th grade. In Saint Matthews, the majority of students were “white,” Hispanic, upper middle class, high class, and (not surprisingly) Catholic. Although I loved going to Saint Matthews, I could not deny that it was a very segregated place. However, Saint Matthews had a great quality of education and received very good funding. Saint Matthews received most (or all) of their funding from the parents themselves. Only children from well-off families could attend Saint Matthews, so, for this reason, I do not believe that the funding was exactly “fair.” After Saint Matthews, I went to a homeschooling program that was offered at my gym, Aerial Athletics. When I was a little girl, I was a gymnast, so my mother and father thought it was a great idea to have me homeschooled at my gymnasium. In Aerial Athletics, there were only five or six other girls that went to the homeschooling program with …show more content…
All of the public schools I went to were very well-off. The funding that they received was not fair because they received more funding than the poorer schools. According to Teaching to Change the World, schools all across America spend less money on low-income children and children of color than they spend on economically advantaged and white students (Oakes, 2013, p. 18). This was sadly the case with the public schools that I went to. The education was great, but the schools were not fair to everyone and not very diverse. Most of the students were “white” and upper middle class. I am half Mexican and half white, so I do feel like I was out of place. I was “too white” to fit in with the Hispanics and “not white enough” to fit in with the