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Ms. Soto from Bronx, NY is requesting a class trip through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Some Love Rock 'n' Roll. We Love Opera

My ESL students need funding to attend the holiday production of Hansel & Gretel at The Metropolitan Opera to be performed in English!

  • $782 goal

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This project is a part of the Hispanic & Latinx Heritage Month celebration because it supports a Latino teacher or a school where the majority of students are Latino.

My Students

"From the beginning of his education, the child should experience the joy of discovery." ~ Alfred North Whitehead My students have a capacity for kindness; an eagerness to learn; a willingness to explore; and an unassuming nature that continues to surprise me, even after three years.

I have worked with the same group of ESL students for the past three years.

As we worked to build a community, I wanted to share with them something of myself, and I aimed to find meaningful opportunities to incorporate classical music and opera into our classroom. My students are from all over the world, yet for many of them, it wasn't until an independent work period this time three years ago, when I played a WQXR broadcast quietly in the background, that they heard an operatic performance "live" for the first time. Despite having heard that the opera, and the arts in general, for that matter, are for everyone, they remain(ed) skeptical. All the same, they hum along to now-familiar productions, and will raise their hands to ask, "Who is that singing?" and they marvel at their vastly different reactions to the same piece "That makes me feel...sad" and "I like this one. It makes me feel safe." "I'd like to go there some day, Ms. Soto. Do you think I could go there? Would it be okay?"

My Project

At first, my students laughed when they learned that I, someone who "looks like them", attended the opera and ballet as a child and continue to do so as an adult. "That's for rich people," they said. "You must be rich." I explained to them that while I did not come from great financial means, I had parents who, by means of their re-enrollment in college and their university ID cards were able to expose my brother and myself to the arts (in prime seats, no less!) at a substantially reduced cost. "Do you feel weird when you go there?" they ask me. "No," I tell them, "because this city is as much mine and yours as it is anyone else's." They smile. "Even for us?" they ask. Many of them do not leave the borough in which they live, let alone step onto the "stage" of theatergoers in NYC. It would mean a great deal to them, and to us, to be able to attend a "REAL" performance this year before we say goodbye to each other in June and head to college classrooms next year.

It is my deepest wish that not only do my students continue to build their confidence as writers, speakers, thinkers, and citizens; that not only do they experience the joys and independence of learning in a college classroom; that not only do they continue to make great strides in their language development but that they come to realize that the city to which they and their families have immigrated is one of great access and opportunity.

Help us take their first step towards making that realization.

Ms. Soto Marble Hill High School - International Studies Grades 9-12

Equity Focus

At this school, more than 50% of students are Black, Latino, and/or Native American, and more than 50% come from low-income households. Learn how your donation to this school supports a more equitable education.

This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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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

22 students impacted 15donors

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Where Your Donation Goes

Where your donation goes
Component Company Total
Activity The Metropolitan Opera $625.00

Trip cost

$625.00

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $0.00

3rd party payment processing fee

$9.38

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$664.38

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$117.24

Total project goal

$781.62

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $781.62

12 Donors

-$465.09

Donations toward project cost

-$403.43

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.66

match offer

-$307.00

Match offer toward project cost

-$260.95

Match offer to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$46.05

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$9.53

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 $0.00

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