Class Reflection #8

For the longest time I have wanted to teach at a public school in the suburbs. Private school is out of the question. For reasons that I will not divulge into right now for the sake of whoever is reading this... Recently I watched the documentary 'Mad Hot Ballroom' in Professor Kobashigawa's class and I really enjoyed the film. Its set in public elementary schools in Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx/Spanish Harlem in New York City. After watching the teacher-student dynamic at the inner-city schools in this film I am much more open to teaching in the city now. I think that it would be a really good experience to teach in the inner city schools of Seattle for a couple of years. I can imagine that their supply of technological equippment is far smaller than suburban elementary schools. It would be neat if Paul Allen or some rich dude would donate a bunch of computers to a school like Chief Sealth High School in Seattle.