Career Day in South Los Angeles
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This year I had the pleasure of serving on the Career Day committee and on June 16, 2010 our school held its first ever Career Day (we are a rather new school.) As Career Day came to a close, I was struck by how this time-honored tradition still holds relevance for the students of the new millennium.
First, having outsiders visit our campus is in and of itself quite a feat. Being located in an industrial part of town that few of our visitors would have ever had the need to visit, did not work to our advantage. Yet the speakers took on the challenge and found themselves pleasantly surprised with the cleanliness of our campus and the campus design itself. Our speakers were greeted by the most personable, vocal, and charming students on campus: the Advanced Studies students. These students became one on one escorts for our speakers from the moment they arrived campus and were able to give the speakers a sense of the school community and student life.
Having strangers repeat the same exhortations to students (“be on time,” “work hard,” “do your best”) all of a
This year I had the pleasure of serving on the Career Day committee and on June 16, 2010 our school held its first ever Career Day (we are a rather new school.) As Career Day came to a close, I was struck by how this time-honored tradition still holds relevance for the students of the new millennium.
First, having outsiders visit our campus is in and of itself quite a feat. Being located in an industrial part of town that few of our visitors would have ever had the need to visit, did not work to our advantage. Yet the speakers took on the challenge and found themselves pleasantly surprised with the cleanliness of our campus and the campus design itself. Our speakers were greeted by the most personable, vocal, and charming students on campus: the Advanced Studies students. These students became one on one escorts for our speakers from the moment they arrived campus and were able to give the speakers a sense of the school community and student life.
Having strangers repeat the same exhortations to students (“be on time,” “work hard,” “do your best”) all of a
