Hope Program

The Hope program is an approach that will beneficially redesign public schools. This program will be focused around providing students with the opportunity to freely be their selves while finding their unique talent. The Hope program will be focused on arts and trade. The art programs will be music (singing, rap, and instruments), dance, art, and theatre while the trade programs will consist of cosmetology, mechanics, electric, and carpentry. Students will have the opportunity to express their self creatively through the extensive art programs offered or they can get a head start on their career by learning a trade. The opportunity to provide students with things that they are personally interested in will be incentive to work well on their studies. In addition, the redesign program will maintain an emphasis on education, expression, and unity. Not only will this program help the students but simultaneously it will engage the community. This program will help to close the achievement gap for black students tremendously. …show more content…
The article “Keepin it Real: School success beyond black and white” says that “ racial and ethnic minority students do not perform well in school because they avoid the burden of acting white”. This article spoke about how students associate acting white with conforming. Furthermore, it goes into depth by classifying students based on their willingness to conform. The three categories of students they mention are mainstreamers, straddlers, and noncompliant believers. The Hope program will help cultivate an atmosphere that provides students the ability to openly embrace their culture with out conforming to the idea of “acting