Hello everyone, 

         My name is Tania and I attended Richmond High in California, there's a lot to say when it comes down to inequality in education. Especially when you experienced it first hand, it took me a while to realize my own reality and the conditions I lived in a daily basis. Everything always seemed "normal", seeing youth smoking, cutting class, getting bad grades and students not graduating. The expectations of Richmond high students are really low. I and my sister started realizing that, what we thought was "normal" actually was injustices being done to low-income residents. It hit me the hardest after I graduated high school and realized my level of reading and writing. My sister realized it by playing sports, as an athlete she has to go from one school to the next . She started telling me about high school's she went to that had a fountain, computers in every classroom, beautiful cafeteria's, huge gym's, clean bathrooms, good food and the list can go on... A lot of the time I will blamed myself for failing in life, which I still believe that it was partly my fault. But it changed when I took sociology and started learning about inequalities in low income communities. I started blaming the schools I attended, but then realized that the problem is bigger than that. California use to be number one in funding schools, now its number 49. Ironically, we are number one in funding prisons, which to people who attend Richmond high is not a big shocker. Since, a lot of students are known to go to juvenile prisons. Not only is it evident that we are not being funded but the history of color people is not being taught. Things need to change, the teachers might go on strike due to wages but we should join them and fight for equality in schools. Enough is enough, this madness needs to come to an end. Unity is all we have, power in numbers. When the people unite the world will listen! speak out... slam your fist and make your demand.