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a disempowering experience I've had in K-12 was not learning anything and having to take useless classes

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An empowering experience I had in K-12 was when I was failing my AP US History class. I lost all motivation and thought I wasn't good enough because I sucked at writing, but my teacher believed in me and would talk to me after class just to help me out with my assignments.

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An empowering experience I had in K-12 was when I began high school and my school was very diverse and there was a support system that helped me gain more confidence after I had lost it all in 8th grade. There was staff who had my back and guided me to be more confident about myself and advise that I had more potential than I thought.

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I think an empowering experience I had was being president of my schools BSU

A disempowering experience for me would be the lack or diversity and representation for people of color in my school.

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An empowering moment that I had when I was in k-12 was when I went from a 2.4 student in middle school to a 4.0 Student in Highschool. Everyone in middle school doubted me, but I showed them all wrong.

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A disempowering moment I had in K-12 school was fifth grade when the teacher decided to segregate groups based on who anonymous notes where you would have 3 people you would want to sit with and one you wouldn't want to sit with. This way the teacher was able to put a group of students that she saw as disobedient into one group to put them on the spot. I thought this was extremely cruel method of punishment even though I understood her to be a really strict teacher and I hope she has learned that her methods were wrong.

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A disempowering experience for me was getting in trouble for speaking in spanish while I was in elementary school.

An empowering experience for me was getting into a hs english class that focused on poc literature and chicano movements.

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An empowering experience I've had in k-12 school is when my asb teacher told me how much potential she saw in me and also helped me when I was struggling mentally during my junior year.

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A disempowering experience I've had in K-12 was having to hear teachers say they 'expected more from me' despite the fact that I was struggling with undiagnosed ADHD.
An empowering experience I've had in K-12 was being able to take community college classes in high school and having a professor tell me that my final essay was one of the best he'd ever read in that class.

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An empowering experience I've had in K-12 school is helping others whether it was translating or helping to find a class room or being there

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An empowering experience i had in k-12 was my science teacher inspiring me to pursue a career within the science field

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An empowering experience I had in high school was when I turned my study life from a low to a significant high. Like my GPA was at a 2.3, and it went up to a 3.3.

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An experience I’ve had in K-12 school is being gaslight into thinking I slapped a kid older than me. Sucks even more when my teacher told the entire class ‘She’s a kid, she doesn’t know anything’ as if I did it. Like tf? I didn’t do anything.

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A disempowering experience I've had in K-12 school were the mounts of HW, studying, and extracurriculars, I had to do in order to satisfy my school. Also, having the mentality that grades are more important than learning.

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Some empowering experiences I've had were gaining praise from my teachers and that helped me feel more confident in myself

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a disempowering experience I've had in k-12 school was the lack of my culture being spoken about and kind of hiding my culture ever since I was young because I would get made fun of

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I had this one teacher back in highschool where he was comfortable enough to share with the class that he was gay. He also told us how hard school and life in general was for him but he pushed through and always reminds us that perseverance will always bring about success.

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I was at a class strike for my environmental club at my school with my friends and we had just joined. We went to go join the other members in a picture they were taking to post on the clubs instagram account and one of the guys in the club said out loud, "they're not even in the club, why are they trying to get in the picture". At the time I was like, why are you trying to gatekeep a picture for your high school's club? Now we're close friends. An empowering experience I had was being able to be open in my classes and share my own opinions without the fear that I'd be judged.

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A disempowering experience I've had in K-12 school is not being taught valuable life skills that I could use in my personal life.

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An empowering experience I've had in k-12 is being able to fully express my culture and exchanging cultural knowledge from a very young age.

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An empowering experience I’ve had in K-12 school is when I met understanding teachers who helped me and didn't make me feel bad about not knowing stuff.

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An empowering experience I’ve had in K-12 school is when I met understanding teachers who helped me and didn't make me feel bad about not knowing stuff.