Leonarda

       In the Heights recorded a song called "Breathe", and in the song they depicted a scenario of a young latin American woman who has been given the opportunity to go out of her cultural bonds and education to pursue a better life. While being the first of many in her family to go out of family and cultural lay outs she found her self hiding who she is from the outside crowd. While being there she is going through a mental war of many questions on who she is, while at home she is seen as a "star" for what she has done and accomplished.  Nina is feeling the immense pressure on succeeding because she is "the one who made it", in her family and her neighborhood.  In the heights song Breathe, is something I resonate with especially coming from an immigrant household and being the first daughter in the family to attend college and pursue a career. At times I have heard my parents talk about me with my family members with such great pride and how I have been ...

  Questions 1. Why is this concept of the Deficit vs. Asset Model just now being brought up, or why did it take me this long to find out? Why isn't this being talked about more? Why do parents not know about the fight in planning that their children are in the middle of? This is the concept for pushing for the Asset model plans and having loving, caring, conscious parents who want to build up their children and their attributes.  2. After having researched that having an Asset model plan in schooling is efficient, all schools should be fighting for this plan, but would most likely stick to the Deficit plan that has been proven to show negative results in academic scores and negative outcomes for students' self-esteem and future. Why aren't more schools fighting for this plan? 3.Starting early matters! The article made a statement that shook me: "With these statistics, it is not surprising that success factors in middle school highly determine a student’s high school su...