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Gifted students often get lost in the crowd because teachers are too busy bringing other students up to speed.

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Warped Social Norms, Systematic Oppression

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Weak relationships with educators.

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They are tired of some of their teachers constantly treating them as if they are victims...

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They are tired of some of their teachers constantly treating them as if they are victims...

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Students worry if they will be caught by ICE or the police. Mistrusting the safety of the land of the free.

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Micro aggressions
Being undervalued as kids
Not knowing the resources they have

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No space to be just a student, just some semblance of an ordinary teenager when outside of school many are forced to become adults more quickly

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Completely new language and away from home.

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Completely new language and away from home.

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Students want to be part of something, a group, movement, family, group of friends and community. They want to "fit" into a group and find themselves.

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Feel like they can't escape being anything but a victim

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Our students are very intelligent and "life smart," but they are unaware that this knowledge can translate into academic success. Our job is to push them and help them realize they are intelligent and can accomplish things that any other student can accomplish.

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Students do not know all the possibilities that an education can provide, so just settle and do think they can suceed.

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some students has no place to live and some have no money to buy food

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The students here come to have a safe environment. Having to deal with things that they should not have to deal with.

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I have seen kids who miss out on being a kid, who miss out on enjoying these years.

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having to take care of the younger siblings and not having enough food, so he had to give them whatever food there was and could not eat himself.

Many of our students don't feel they have permission to express their voice.

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Many of our students simply do not understand what opportunities are afforded to them and how they can/should navigate through their early adulthood so they can economically assimilate.

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Often they give up if they do not see immediate results...

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Often they give up if they do not see immediate results...

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Broken homes, broken schools, broken economy, broken country. 

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Broken homes, broken schools, broken economy, broken country. 

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Most of the students don't feel like they belong to anything. building any type of relationship with the students will go a long way.

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Many of our students have unsure or unstable home lives, or just have unsupportive families who cannot or will not give their children the help they need, whether academic or personal.

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The students are living with people they don't know or have never met.

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The students are living with people they don't know or have never met.

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Too often understood through a deficit mindset

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Too often understood through a deficit mindset

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My students are here because they are running from death and fear deportation for them or their family.

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My students are here because they are running from death and fear deportation for them or their family.

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Not having positive role models
Comprehension

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Some students in Compton had gang related home lives. This gives them a distorted view of the real world. We need to give them a broader perspective. This requires listening carefully to their stories so that we can expand their knowledge base

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Some students in Compton had gang related home lives. This gives them a distorted view of the real world. We need to give them a broader perspective. This requires listening carefully to their stories so that we can expand their knowledge base

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They don't know how to deal with hardships.

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They don't know how to deal with hardships.

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One of kids made me to hate him, I asked why? He said because I don't know what do wi

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One of kids made me to hate him, I asked why? He said because I don't know what do wi

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Opening up a line of trust so that the students can honestly open up.

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Most of our students come from low income family and they come to school needing encouragement.

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Students need to overcome challenges and believe they can succeed.

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Bleak future.

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Lock of hope
Low live stile environment