YEah I Remember
LA Times did a story on my brother and his friends last week, I was surprised to see their pictures on the paper last Friday. I then recall him telling me that LA Times followed them for 8 months. I've been trying to analyze the whole point of the story and I’ve tried to get to the bottom of it all since it is where I come from, heck that could have been my brother not graduating, perhaps I had something to do with it who knows, I'm just glad that he is in the right path. LA Times made them all look like thugs, and losers that have no goals or prospective. (I know they need the readers)
Well the story is about the drop out rate from my old high school, and how the school failed the students, my brother graduate a year before these guys so the story doesn't apply to him but he did come out in the paper and the video. I really don’t think that the schools had anything to do with these kids failing since it has a lot more to do with the values and the pressure of the parents. ok maybe the school gave up on them too easy, who knows...
My mom pressure me to do well in high school that along with my natural sense of questioning authority I believe is what motivated me to graduate. I look back at high school and I don’t think it was such a big deal now, but to these kids they don’t know any better. This is the first prospective that they will accomplish. These kids are young and maybe they have no brothers or parents to pressure them. I still think that the group that they formed had a lot to do with their failure; it’s hard to write it all down since it is a complicated hypothesis.
I still think there is hope for these kids, I’ve taken this story and seen it through all the angles since I personally know some of these kids. What I’ve learned is that these kids made a very strong bond with each other and I can vouch that they have held their end of the bargain since the comradeship that they have formed is the strongest I’ve ever encounter.
One of the kids’ brothers started up a loan company, and he gave jobs to most of these kids. My brother doesn’t work there since he is always in school and has other jobs but if he needed a job, he can count on any of these guys to help out. That along with other private businesses that they are all trying to put together, I can see the potential. As their name grows they never forget one another, they’ve even made a rap CD. My brother keeps me up to date on it; they come to him for consulting since he is the one studying business.
This is what is missing in my time here, I’ve met a lot of people in my college years but to say the least there is only a couple of people that I can really call true friends. I had thought before that I’ve made true friends since I’ve helped a lot of classmates pass classes and study for midterms/finals I thought that after doing this for them that we had become friends. I was wrong, the very next quarter I would walk right by them I would greet them like any other guy would, I would node my head and say how is it going. Most of them would not even acknowledge me, they would pass right by like if I wasn’t there. To me I could care less I have enough good friends, but it was just all weird to me, to this day I don’t understand why they would act like this.
To me if someone were to help me study or help me with passing a class, I would be in debt to them for life. I wouldn’t forget it, I would try to do anything I can to help them out, this is how I was raised, this is how tight my true friends and I are, but these people I've helped out, they don’t see it that way. I don’t understand!!!!
Nevertheless for being loyal and being there for my brother, as my brother has been there for them, I am in debt to these guys. They’ve looked out for each other especially my brother in my absence. I can sleep well at night when I know that in my absence my brother has other people to count on. For this, I will do whatever I can to help these guys.
Well the story is about the drop out rate from my old high school, and how the school failed the students, my brother graduate a year before these guys so the story doesn't apply to him but he did come out in the paper and the video. I really don’t think that the schools had anything to do with these kids failing since it has a lot more to do with the values and the pressure of the parents. ok maybe the school gave up on them too easy, who knows...
My mom pressure me to do well in high school that along with my natural sense of questioning authority I believe is what motivated me to graduate. I look back at high school and I don’t think it was such a big deal now, but to these kids they don’t know any better. This is the first prospective that they will accomplish. These kids are young and maybe they have no brothers or parents to pressure them. I still think that the group that they formed had a lot to do with their failure; it’s hard to write it all down since it is a complicated hypothesis.
I still think there is hope for these kids, I’ve taken this story and seen it through all the angles since I personally know some of these kids. What I’ve learned is that these kids made a very strong bond with each other and I can vouch that they have held their end of the bargain since the comradeship that they have formed is the strongest I’ve ever encounter.
One of the kids’ brothers started up a loan company, and he gave jobs to most of these kids. My brother doesn’t work there since he is always in school and has other jobs but if he needed a job, he can count on any of these guys to help out. That along with other private businesses that they are all trying to put together, I can see the potential. As their name grows they never forget one another, they’ve even made a rap CD. My brother keeps me up to date on it; they come to him for consulting since he is the one studying business.
This is what is missing in my time here, I’ve met a lot of people in my college years but to say the least there is only a couple of people that I can really call true friends. I had thought before that I’ve made true friends since I’ve helped a lot of classmates pass classes and study for midterms/finals I thought that after doing this for them that we had become friends. I was wrong, the very next quarter I would walk right by them I would greet them like any other guy would, I would node my head and say how is it going. Most of them would not even acknowledge me, they would pass right by like if I wasn’t there. To me I could care less I have enough good friends, but it was just all weird to me, to this day I don’t understand why they would act like this.
To me if someone were to help me study or help me with passing a class, I would be in debt to them for life. I wouldn’t forget it, I would try to do anything I can to help them out, this is how I was raised, this is how tight my true friends and I are, but these people I've helped out, they don’t see it that way. I don’t understand!!!!
Nevertheless for being loyal and being there for my brother, as my brother has been there for them, I am in debt to these guys. They’ve looked out for each other especially my brother in my absence. I can sleep well at night when I know that in my absence my brother has other people to count on. For this, I will do whatever I can to help these guys.
written by Mr. Vasquez at 9:24 p. m.
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