Andrade video repsonse

     The youth is extremely important and essential to our society. The youth of our society has no chance without support from teachers and parents in our community. This is most prevalent throughout the urban community. Many urban communities lack support systems from parents and teachers. Jeff Duncan talks about the support system he has put together and how much success they have had in helping students from an urban community succeed. I can relate to what he talks about because he is referring to a community I am very familiar with. Jeff Duncan talks about how East Oakland can cause kids to have CPTSD which is complex post traumatic stress disorder. I feel this is true in some ways because it is very difficult focus on school when you see or hear about friends and family members dying or going to jail. Last night I was told one of my friends was a victim to gun violence within the East Oakland community. This made it very difficult to think about the homework I had to do when the news I received still did not seem real. People dying from gun violence in Oakland is something that happens all the time. This can take a toll on the community as a whole. I have seen mothers, kids, and young adults suffer from the result of frequent gun violence. This makes me think of the conversation Jeff Duncan brings up in his speech and that is how are we allowing this to continue. If nothing is done to help our youth especially in urban communities like East Oakland things will only get worse. "Very little attention to their humanity, and yet at the same time we tell them schools care about them". In this quote Jeff Duncan speaks about why students within urban communities hesitate to engage in school. Even though school is said to care about it's students and want the best for them it still often neglects the "material conditions of their lives". This is a case where teachers and schools lacking passion within the curriculum is very detrimental to the students. It is difficult to focus on a academic subject when your life is filled with harsh reality. A mix between this harsh reality and not being able to connect with the school system is the number one reason kids decide to drop out of school.