Did You Know?
It is widely understood that urban school students find themselves challenged in one or more required academic disciplines. Identification with regard to what led to these challenges is wide ranging, and the contributors to these hurdles are growing. Parents who have children attending urban schools express or silently anguish distrust toward urban school systems because they recognize the contrast between urban and suburban (middle class and above) schools in both appearance and most importantly, resources.
Minority students often feel unrepresented and misrepresented with respect to course content which does not, for the most part, reflect their personal or cultural experience. Moreover, they often do not feel their teachers care to understand or respect them early on in their educational experience. Parents often echo these sentiments due to their individual acquaintance with the urban school pilgrimage. The urban student's recognition of the typical low-income classroom milieu potentially leads to boredom, acting out behaviorally or failing.
Urban parents feel and observe the dynamics brought about by this kind of marginalization. Whether they express it or not, they realize that poverty, language and cultural differences and racial trepidation, creates barriers which remain unbroken throughout the course of a student's primary and secondary education years in the urban, low-income setting.
As off-springs of urban life and education, Ambitious Kids Incorporated is committed to making a measured difference. We acknowledge that the areas and levels of opportunity for these young urban members of our society are great and expanding. Our purpose is to amplify the potential inherent in these opportunities as vehicles for progress and advancement.
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On average, approximately 50 percent of students in America's fifty largest cities excel to the point of participating in commencement services at the end of 12th grade. Although suburban students graduate at much higher rates, overall, about 10 percent of 16 to 24 year old youth in the United States do not have diplomas (cited on Takepart.com).
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