Thursday, September 23, 2010

Demographics, Post #2

I have to say that I had a great first experience when going to the school. I did not get a trainning at this school, and that was something that I was expecting to have before being a tutor. Anyways, after spending a few minutes with the fourth graders and the math teacher, everything became fun. The children were taking tests and I was assigned to help a couple of students to read questions. I also had encouraged them to answer most of the questions. It was funny because they asked me "is this the correct answer?". I had to tell them that I was there, only to help them understand the question, not to solve it. It would not have been fair to say "yes", even though I wanted to say so.
I was having such a good time that I lost track of time, and ended up being there for three hours. The teacher had told that I could stay all the time I wanted to, so there was no problem with that.
Let's talk about the school demographics. There are 50,5% females and 49.5% males. There are 5.5% Asians, 27.3% Blacks, 35.4% Hispanics, 0.8% Native Americans, and 31.0% Whites. Interestingly, the class I attended seemed to have mostly Blacks, and some Hispanics. The school has an enrrollment of 509 students.

Interestingly, I have only seen about three or four white students in my classes; they seem to be very friendly. Those four white students always say hello when seeing me and do all their work in class. During my visits to the school “MYHM”, I have only seen a child who seems Asian; he is bright and work hard, but I do not relate that to Asian stereotypes. 

2 comments:

  1. Great info! Did you feel that the stats online match what you saw?

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  2. Yes and No. I think that the percentages about gender are fine, but it seems that there are more African Americans than Whites in the school. However, I could be wrong because I have not seen all students.

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