Math Literacy Worker (MLW)
School, year: Miami Edison Senior High (sophomore, 2010)
Started YPP: Summer 2007
“Teach those who are un-teachable.”
As I work with these kids, I understand that they are outcasted to be dumbies but in reality they just want someone to encourage and support them.
I enjoy the fact that I get a chance to teach the kids more than they know. Giving them challenges that will help them in the future, that will make them smile.
I've learned that you have to always believe in the kids’ potential because that always helps them succeed and they tend to surprise you, also that teachers need teaching too.
YPP is important because to me it helps everyone. It helps the kids because they get a chance to enhance their mathematics etc. It helps me and my peers because we don’t only teach, we learn, and we get to experience hope, pain, love & equality. It gives us the opportunity to help each other, the future generations, and our communities.