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  • Wounded Knee District School
  • Manderson, SD
  • Nearly all students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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My students are ambitious, bright and hopeful despite all of the reasons for them not to be. Our country has turned its back on the people that were here originally and yet my students haven't internalized the negative messages they've been sent throughout their lives...at least not yet. However, going to a school in the poorest district in our nation and watching their friends and family members never leave the reservation and coast through school with teachers that don't challenge them and without the resources they need starts to wear thin on children. Many of them have hopes of going to college and coming back to work in the schools, hospitals and community colleges on the reservation and attack issues like alcoholism, diabetes, sexual abuse and many of the other terrible aspects of their daily lives. However, without proper textbooks and classroom activities to challenge their minds and engage their passion for learning, many of them don't see school as a positive environment.

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My students are ambitious, bright and hopeful despite all of the reasons for them not to be. Our country has turned its back on the people that were here originally and yet my students haven't internalized the negative messages they've been sent throughout their lives...at least not yet. However, going to a school in the poorest district in our nation and watching their friends and family members never leave the reservation and coast through school with teachers that don't challenge them and without the resources they need starts to wear thin on children. Many of them have hopes of going to college and coming back to work in the schools, hospitals and community colleges on the reservation and attack issues like alcoholism, diabetes, sexual abuse and many of the other terrible aspects of their daily lives. However, without proper textbooks and classroom activities to challenge their minds and engage their passion for learning, many of them don't see school as a positive environment.

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