Author: Dennise Fernandez

Dennise Fernandez

Professor Hall

11/4/19

One of the sources that I’ll be using in the curiosity project talks about what harm could happen to the United States if DACA ended and if the Supreme Court doesn’t figure out what will happen on the hearing they’ll be having on November 12,2019 . It also providers information about the states economy and how if ending DACA happens the United States would be losing at lot of money because s lot of the “Dreamers “ as DACA recipients are called are bringing money to them. They would be losing employees, owners of very good companies that bring a lot of money. They’d be losing lots of taxes as well. My question is what is the future of DACA and although this source talks about what would it be like if it were to end it gives me background Info on what it’d be like if there was no future for DACA. Another source I’ll be using talking about what trump has been saying and what he’s willing to do for the program. In the source it’s states how trump proposed that he will give the Dreamers “ 3 extra years of DACA only if money is given so that can invest It in the Wall he is trying to build for the Mexican Border. If the democrats and the republicans can’t agree on that then he will terminate DACA. The source also talks about different deals the Democrats and Republicans are trying to make since the democrats were quick on saying no the idea of ending daca if no money was given for the wall. I think source is really helpful since the person saying this is the President of the United States and he is the one who proposes the deals. There is no better way to know and understand what will happen than hearing from him and what he thinks.

My plan for rereading the Declaration of Independence is to lookup the words  that I find difficult to understand and write them on the side so that when I do read it I can read it straight and I’ll know what the text is saying now that I know what the words mean. I also want to annotate because it’s something I do like to do because if helps but I feel like the first time I read it I was just in a hurry to do so and I didn’t really comprehend what I was reading.

The Declaration of Independence was a tough one for me to read because of all it’s vocabulary. There’s a lot of difficult words and so when I read it I had to stop to figure out what the words meant and then I would lose track of what I was reading, since the words they use aren’t words would usually use or hear it makes that much harder.. In the draft there was a lot of lines crossed out which are the ones that aren’t in the final draft or the Declaration of Independence and I kept reading them as if they weren’t crossed out and so when I read the final draft I was confused. I found myself reading this about 3 times because every time I read I understood it more. It’s also pretty perplexing to me because it’s not something I would read on a daily basis so I do get confused and it’s a bit hard to figure out what they are trying say and trying to find the main idea is.

Growing up my parents always told me that having an education was the only way that people would take me seriously and that that’s how I’d never be stepped on. One particular moment In my life that changed my view on education was in second grade and even if it was 12 years ago,I still remember it as if it was yesterday. Second grade is a grade where it’s not hard, there isn’t a lot of challenges, but for me I’d say it was the hardest year and I still say it now, which is crazy because college and high school should be the most difficult, not elementary school. I was 7 years old and I had been in the United States for only 4 years so the language was new to me still and my parents only spoke Spanish in the house so I only learned Spanish my whole life until I started going to school.

When I started the second grade, I was so excited to make new friends and to meet my new teacher mainly because first grade went really well for me I had a good teacher who didn’t care about anything but making us feel comfortable but everything changed so quickly. I spoke a little bit of English but it was ‘’broken’’ and you could still hear my accent. Besides the fact that I was embarrassed about the way I spoke, I was the only Hispanic in my class, so that made me feel even more uncomfortable. Every night I would go home and read book after book after book hoping that the words would stick to my brain and I could say them the right way. My mom and dad were my biggest supporters, they always reminded me that I was really brave for being in a class where everyone spoke English for instance I would read in front of the class at times and I would go up to the board to solve math problems and even if I felt uncomfortable my parents gave me hope. The first few days school were good, the teacher seemed nice but I had Barley spoken to her so I didn’t know how she really was. She was Tall she had glasses and she had black hair and always had her hair up in a ponytail. One day everyone is class was taking turns reading a book and boy was I nervous, when it came to my turn the teacher told me ‘’Denise get up here and read ‘’she had her hair up and she had a black dress she also had red lipstick on which for a reason made me feel more scared I don’t really know why and boy ’was I so nervous that I was shaking and even more because I was the only one-who was told to go up while everyone was allowed to read sitting down from their desks. I began to read and I was clearly struggling so the kids began to laugh and my teacher said ‘’ alright It’s useless you’re making the kids get confused’’ and I felt so disappointed and useless. That night I went home and I told my parents, and they said that maybe she didn’t mean it, maybe she just didn’t want the rest of the kids to get confused by the way I was saying the words so I kind of felt better because I thought my parents were probably right. During the rest of the year the teacher continued to make feel less of a person because I didn’t speak English, she would get in trouble if I didn’t pronounce a word right or if I didn’t answer I a question correctly. She would also tell me ‘’you should’ve stayed in your country, you would’ve done better there’’ It was up to a point where I didn’t want to go to school anymore because I felt useless, and I thought school wasn’t for me. I thought I would never be able to overcome the challenge of not being able to speak English. . The school year eventually came to an end and it was time for report cards, I was so happy becauseI could finally move on to third grade and get another teacher, but that wasn’t the situation. I got left back I remember coming out of school I had a dress on and My mom has brought me a small bouquet of flowers to show her support and when I was in the corner of the school opening my report card I was in shock, my parents were in shock I was crying and they were upset with me which was what hurt me the most. My parents came up to the school and tried to explain to the teacher that I tried really hard and that I didn’t deserve to get left back but the teacher wasn’t having it. We even tried to show her my cousins report card and mine because it was exactly the same, our grades were so similar and she had passed, and so that’s how we knew it wasn’t my grades, it was the teacher. She told my mom that I didn’t deserve to pass, that I wasn’t putting effort into learning and that it was useless if she passed me to third grade. I had lost hope. Some people might think it wasn’t that bad and I should’ve just ignored it but especially when you’re just a child those kinds of hurtful words stuck to you and she said to me has always impacted me.

Something has to be done about problems like this, someone’s race should not have to interfere with someone’s education especially a child. People like politicians have to speak up about it because they are high authority and they can use their platform to portray these issues and maybe people will start to see what’s wrong and they will try to fix it. I do realize that even if someone with power says something it’s within the person to understand and do better and it’s the way these people were raised that makes these problems but hopefully we can get the message across somehow. I want everyone to know, immigrants, non immigrants, people who have gotten verbally abused by teachers because of their race or just anything that these issues do get better they may not change but you do learn how to defend yourself and you do learn to confront these issues. I want you to do better and I want you to not give up even if it may be seem like it’s not getting better. I see myself now and I feel really proud of myself and how far I’ve come and when I think back I just laugh and I feel really bad for the teacher because if I were her I would feel really embarrassed.