Improving the lives of women begins with investing in girls. Educating girls brings enormous benefits far beyond improving the lives of the girls themselves. Once an educated girl becomes an adult, it is estimated she will earn 20 percent more for each additional year of education she receives beyond grade three or four. Statistics show she will more likely share up to 90 percent of her earnings with her family and her community. She will marry and bear children later, and they will be healthier and more likely to go to school than will the children of her less literate sisters. (via Investing In Girls | Editorials | Editorial)
I cannot accurately put into words what it will be like to leave my students and then the life I’ve made here in New York City. I am excited to go back to school so that I can have more free time, not wake up at 6:30, and actually get to see my boyfriend and other friends from home but I don’t know how I will manage to pack up all my things and say goodbye. I’m currently sitting on my balcony, it’s 50 degrees and drizzling but I want to soak up as much of Brooklyn as I can before I go. I haven’t written much since I got back from break because I have been ridiculously busy and it has been almost too much to try and write down what I have experienced and learned here. My world has completely changed. I’ve been thinking a lot about what I’m going to say to my students when I leave and how I’m going to say goodbye. I think I’ve decided that most importantly I want them to know how big of an impact they have had on me. That they are powerful and capable of changing and impacting the world but more importantly, their own lives. City Years slogan is, “Give a year. Change the world.” and I think I’ve definitely had an impact on the lives of others but I think the most important thing that I will leave knowing is that I want to continue doing that and I know that thanks to my amazing students. They really are the coolest kids in Brooklyn. And I only have 34 days left with them.
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look at how funky he is
This is the only way I’ll be dancing at prom.
Today my teacher found a bag of weed on the floor of his fifth grade classroom.
That’s all I have to say about that.
Ever since I came back from winter break everything has been crazy. Both in my normal life and my city year life. I need to write about the quality review at my school, my love for my neighborhood, camps, my new decision that I want to be a kindergarten teacher and about a million more things that I’ve been putting off. I promise to write about those things by the end of the month.
