Question # 1

The school that I am tutoring at is right across the street from Women and Infants Hospital, Rhode Island Hospital, and Hasbro Children's Hospital. The school building is very old and does not have much color or any plants. In order to get into the school you need to be buzzed in through an intercom at the door. The classrooms inside are all decent sizes and have a lot of color, posters, and artwork from the children hanging in them. The hallways also have a lot of artwork and school work done by the children in them too. From looking at the teachers, the women working in the main office, and the reading coach, I get the feeling that they all want to make this school a place where the children feel safe and where theygrow into indivudals and learn repect, responsibillity, and other life skills. When I arrived at the school, I was given a piece of paper with cut outs of feathers on it and was told that the school was trying to promote respect of themselves and others around them. I did not get to meet the children I will be tutoring or the teachers and classrooms that I will be tutoring in but I was able to go around and take a look at them and see some of the children. I am excited to start tutoring next Monday and hope that this will be a fun learning experience. On the website infoworks I researched the demographics for my school and I learned that 82 percent of the students there are eligiable for free or reduced priced lunch, they are twenty percent lower in the proficency rating for reading, writing, and math, than the state of Rhode Island, parents and family members are not actively involved with the school...only about 20 % of them are, 54 % of the students there are hispanic, and 38% are black.