"Ask students about their schedules.... Here is one such list from Porsche, an Oakland student:
6:30 AM Wake up
7:00 AM Wash up and get dressed
8:00 AM Walk my sisters(ages 6 and 7) to school
8:25 AM-3:25PM Go to school
3:25-3:30 PM Catch the bus to Practice
4:00 - 6:00 PM Badminton Practice
6:00 - 7:30 PM Go to Merritt College to run on the track for the school team
7:30 - 8:00 PM Catch the bus home
8:00 - 8:30 PM Do the chores, clean the kitchen, help my little brother and two sisters do their homework
8:30 - 9:30 PM Do my homework
9:30 - 10:45 PM Watch TV
10:45 - 11:59 PM Talk on the telephone
12:00 AM - 6:30 AM Take my medicine and go to sleep." - page 12
This part of the chapter jumped out at me because I have had a very busy schedule since I could remember. I have also had to take care of ill members of my family when I came home from school, and I had a lot of responsibilities besides schoolwork. I felt like my teachers didn't understand or didn't care that I was very busy, and they didn't understand that I had other classes besides theirs, so they gave me a lot of schoolwork. I still feel like that sometimes, even in college.
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