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Jeff Duncan-Andrade is a teacher at a high school in Oakland. Jeff feels the pain of these innocent and young student that are going to school but facing violence, racism and traumas everyday. Jeff feels like there is so much going on in Oakland but yet no solutions. All these problems are effecting our younger generation's mind and body. Jeff says he has seen people getting killed right infront of his place. Jeff is educated, and has the knowledge of all this can still feel how after knowing all this is effecting him still. He can't concentrate, trauma stops him from doing his daily routines. He says imagine what these young minds would be going through, who are not educated properly and straight facing all the violence, racism and so much more in their daily life. These young people are suppose to be at schools, learning something important about their future.

These children need better guidence. 

 

Teachers can't teach unless they are prepared from the inside out. They have to design their curriculum to where they can feel their students mind and their pain as human being. Schools and teachers have become like a buisness. They come to class but are not teaching in a proper way, yet collecting their paycheck. They come to class, hand out their work to student without engaging with them. Teachers are suppose to be like a candle, enlightening their path, their future. They have to show how their passion toward teaching can passionate someone else's life toward their future. Jeff says these teachers have to set a relationship to teach better. Jeff says poor  kids can never be tought because they don't have political, social or economical power to support them. According to Mahatama Gandhi, " Poverty is the worst form of violence." There is so much violence in the community that no one will tolerate it if they had a support. These kids have so much knowledge hidden within them, that needs to come out and be used for a better future. These kids need all types of help weather it's financial or metal help.  Only Jeff can't do this by himself. Someone else has to stand strong with the right resources to save Oakland and the people living in Oakland.

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