Apologize

Sorry for the silence. Life is busy, but it's been good. Second year is somehow still magically better than first. I guess in terms of updates.. Halloween dance got canceled due to low ticket sales, which means that I have to wait until November to show of my moves. CM hasn't been in school for about 3 weeks. I called him at home yesterday and he gave me a list of excuses (sick, injured leg, etc.) and promises to be back soon. He tells me Phillip is planning to start at City for second semester. I tell him to relay the message that if he doesn't, we're gonna be on him. We'll see how that goes, for the both of them. P-Day kids still do the secret handshake and cheer for P-Day, so that's nice. Hosting Asian club in my room during lunch every Tuesday. One of the seniors says I'm the "most hardcore" teacher at the school (what that means, I don't know!) That's all I can think of.

In the meantime, here are some interesting articles that feature students from our school.
http://missionlocal.org/2008/10/after-the-bell-tolls/
http://missionlocal.org/2008/10/crossing-another-frontier-this-time-to-college/
The first talks about after school programs and why they're limited in their effectiveness of "getting kids off the streets". The second is about the barriers to going to college for undocumented youth. Check check check it out.