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Archive | November, 2011
Different Worlds, Same Dia
2 Nov
Feliz Dia de los Muertos. Here at the high school where I work, we had an assembly today about Dia de los Muertos. We remembered those who died from our community and did an exercise where the kids wrote down on notecards the names of a person they knew that died, that they wanted to remember. This sparked a conversation about a middle school classmate of a couple of our kids, a high school senior from George Washington High School, who was shot yesterday. The kids went around the room and explained the people they wrote down. The two white kids in our group wrote down the names of their grand parents, who died when they were young. The other minority kids, including myself, wrote the names of friends, all who died before the age of 21. I am not trying to overstate this example, and conflate what manifested itself racially, which I think is more of a matter of affluence, but there is something to be said for young low-income, usually minority kids and their exposure and relationship with death. This is what I dealt with in high school, its what these students are dealing with now. I think about my weird detachment with death, I hear about someone dying and have to shrug it off. Its simply too serious to internalize, and to frequent to think about. A girl from SI died last week, committed suicide. There were assemblies, and emails home. Two kids were shot last night, and there are whispers in the hallway.
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