A City Education: Why Adults Must Model Racial Unity for Students
In our A City Education series, two City Year corps members share their experiences working as tutors and mentors in schools in hopes of closing the achievement gap and ending the dropout crisis.
"Mister, why do you hang out with him?" a Latino seventh-grader student asked my teammate Ricky at lunch.
Ricky knew exactly what the student was trying to get at: Why is Ricky, a Latino man, buddies with our teammate Aaron, a black man?
Ricky grew up here in Los Angeles and went to a school similar to Markham Middle School, where we serve.