Homeroom Reform Essay Final Draft

Approximately 102,000 children are in foster care in California. Studies show that few emancipated foster youth have entered college and more than a third had not completed high school. Most kids on this campus grew up with their parents. Most of the time they spent in their parents’ homes they were probably trying to balance two jobs and were very unfortunate. Trying to pay the rent and all the rest of their bills, some families didn’t have enough money for food. To even think about having a computer was unheard of. The students at San Pasqual Academy (SPA) deserve to experience a new way of technology.
San Pasqual Academy needs more lap tops. Having more lap tops will not only benefit the students but also the teachers.  Teachers grading will be easier and they will have less paper work. As foster youth, we already face many challenges we are looked at least or looked at last. By becoming advanced technology users we will be able to increase the chances of foster youth succeeding in college. This could be the thing to help SPA raise the amount of foster youth who want to change their lives.
Having laptops around campus will help me in many ways to improve the things I do. It will help me become a better student and will increase the way I do things in school. Finding new ways to do projects will also increase my grades. It will help me if we had more computers because it is hard sharing one computer with eight girls. It will teach me responsibility, and organization. This will show me that there are a lot of other things in life.
We as a campus have tried to take small steps in making this happen. We started by getting more laptops for Ms. Priester’s class and ever since then we have learned a lot of new things and we are continuing to learn new things everyday.  Our teachers have tried to talk to the adminstration. Also they have been going to meetings and teaching other schools the power of technology. This can be the new way of learning.
Having laptops at SPA will have a very positive impact on the students. It will teach them the basics of the computer use such as Google Docs, PowerPoint, and Word. Using these sites for a variety of things will be very helpful in the long run with college. Also lot of kids grew up with out computers in their houses so it will introduce them to a new easier way of learning. This will also teach them how to keep things organized and how to be more independent.
Laptops at San Pasqual Academy will be gratefully used and deserved. Having laptops will teach youth how to be more organized and responsible. This will be a great opportunity to start improving the statics of foster youth doing well in college.

(I wrote this essay with Tierra A. We wrote it for the KNSD Homeroom Reform Essay Contest )