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by Cheyenne Morgan3 views·Updated May 24, 2021
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  1. So with with this website I've been giving a lot
  2. of information and statistics and just kind of throwing it
  3. all in your face.
  4. But what I'm not giving you is information on why
  5. quality education is so important to me.
  6. So with this Prezi video, I am hoping to give
  7. you more of a closer, deeper insight into why I
  8. chose this topic and why I feel that this topic
  9. was the best one for me.
  10. I do want to give a heads up.
  11. There are talks of discrimination and okay events that might
  12. might cause you some ruffle feathers if you would say
  13. so, let's let's get into it.
  14. We're starting with my experience, but I am a firm
  15. believer that your identity and the struggles you go to
  16. correspond with your family and mine especially does with my
  17. family and my mother was a great impact and is
  18. a great impact on my life.
  19. So we're going to be starting off with her.
  20. My mother was born and raised in Butler County Kentucky,
  21. a very rural community.
  22. Her parents were born and raised there.
  23. My father was also born and raised there and both
  24. of their families are very similar.
  25. My mother's father was illiterate.
  26. He could not spell his name in the same way
  27. on any given document as I go through all the
  28. documents she has and all the court records and everything
  29. else to build a family tree.
  30. I learned that he could not spell his name or
  31. just didn't know how His name in total has been
  32. spilled 15 different ways.
  33. Yeah, my mother told me a story About my Grandpa
  34. one day.
  35. My aunt came home and was so excited to tell
  36. him about how she had learned what an adam's apple
  37. was. Now he didn't know what this was, even though
  38. he possessed it, he had no idea what it was.
  39. So he struck her and told her she should not
  40. speak about such obscure things that it was inappropriate for
  41. her to know this that she shouldn't know anything of
  42. a man's body.
  43. He thought it was something related to the genitals.
  44. Now my mother Worked hard to try and get her
  45. high school degree but eventually she did what many did
  46. back in her time.
  47. She dropped out at the age of 16.
  48. Got married and had kids and she worked her adult
  49. life early adult life anyways and fast food living paycheck
  50. to paycheck to raising her kids, raising my brothers.
  51. And then one of the time that She had me
  52. and my sister she decided enough was enough.
  53. And at the age of 40 she went back to
  54. college she ended up getting her Gt through western Kentucky.
  55. She did her G.
  56. E. D.
  57. Test here.
  58. She also got her um early childhood educational degree here
  59. and she went on to teach and she still teaches
  60. to this day and from the moment I could talk
  61. and would actually listen to her.
  62. She's been driving into my head just how important education
  63. is now.
  64. As I said, your family is a great determiner in
  65. your identity and the situations that will occur in your
  66. life and it plays into my struggles.
  67. One of my biggest struggles in education in my earlier
  68. ages was the discriminations I faced.
  69. And it's not discrimination based on my skin or based
  70. on my gender.
  71. Like so many others have faced.
  72. This was a discrimination based on my religion.
  73. I am a jewish descent.
  74. My mother is a jew which by jewish law makes
  75. me a jew.
  76. I am what is known as a cultural jew in
  77. essence. I participate in holidays and some beliefs but I
  78. do not follow it to a T.
  79. Now as a child, I didn't know anything about World
  80. War Two because as a jewish person, that is a
  81. lot for you to learn at a young age.
  82. But I did have to learn it earlier than my
  83. mother would have liked because people were making jokes, I
  84. would go to pick up money that someone had dropped
  85. and they're like, of course it's the jew that picks
  86. up the money or in home at classes.
  87. In middle school people, people being like crawl into the
  88. oven and burn like the rest of them or jokes
  89. like Let's make it one million and one Now there
  90. were some teachers that did not stop this, but there
  91. were definitely some that did and those are the ones
  92. that impacted me greatly because they showed that it wasn't
  93. allowed that it wasn't okay And that leads into my
  94. next one growth just as all things start and all
  95. things grow.
  96. So did my education, in my view on education, like
  97. I said that there were the teachers that stopped the
  98. people who, who were saying such disgusting things and it
  99. gave me faith.
  100. It made me feel that my school was a safe
  101. place to be, that I didn't have to worry about
  102. about those type of comments.
  103. I didn't have to worry about someone acting out against
  104. me. It was also those same teachers who would sit
  105. with me and helped me realize that what I learned
  106. in school wasn't just about passing the time for eight
  107. hours until my mom got off work.
  108. It was about being able to travel to distant lands
  109. in books like the magic tree house and go on
  110. adventures that I never could to be able to slay
  111. dragons, to learn new languages, to learn the history of
  112. the world, to learn my history.
  113. It's about being able to understand numbers so that I
  114. could balance my life that I wouldn't go broke.
  115. It started off rough, but it definitely got better.
  116. It got way better and it continues to get better
  117. in my own experience.
  118. So what's next for me?
  119. Well, currently I'm working on getting my bachelor's degree from
  120. Western Kentucky University.
  121. I'm getting elementary educational degree while doing that.
  122. I'm also attending mm hmm another university online and getting
  123. my teaching english as a second language certification.
  124. And after that I will be traveling abroad to different
  125. countries. Not all of them are first world countries in
  126. my plants.
  127. Some of them are third world countries because I want
  128. to bring my love for learning to other places.
  129. And I also want to experience how other countries teach.
  130. Like for instance, I want to teach one year in
  131. Finland or in Germany.
  132. Those those countries have such a great educational foundation that
  133. I want to learn how they teach.
  134. I want to learn how they motivate their students.
  135. And I want to I want to put that into
  136. practice in countries that that don't have that opportunity that
  137. struggle, that have every presented thing.
  138. I've shown you that girls can attend classes during my
  139. periods. Women are discriminated against, girls can't have a male
  140. teacher. Um Students don't have textbooks to learn, classrooms are
  141. not up to standard.
  142. There are no teachers, stuff like that.
  143. Sorry, a bit of a flu at the moment.
  144. Mhm. That's what's next for me, is finishing my degree
  145. and sharing my love of education in places that generally
  146. wouldn't see it, The quality education is not met and
  147. hopefully I can help achieve a higher educational standard in
  148. my classroom at least You're probably wondering what's on number
  149. 4? I've talked about a lot.
  150. Well, let's talk about you.
  151. What's next for you?
  152. Exactly. Well, you can take any of this information I've
  153. posted on this website to heart, you can look into
  154. it for yourself.
  155. There's a right resource page available for you and you
  156. can share it, you can send it to people and
  157. be like, have you heard about this?
  158. Have you read this?
  159. Have you seen this?
  160. Let's do something about it.
  161. Let's work together to spread the word on quality education.
  162. Talk to people about how education has changed you.
  163. Talk to people about how you want a better education
  164. for others for the next generation, we, we have to
  165. work together to build a better future.
  166. We can we can say we're number one in so
  167. many things and we can say we're the greatest, but
  168. unless we work together and act like it and achieve
  169. that statement and make it true, we have no right
  170. to. But it isn't only our country that we should
  171. work for, for that it's others as well.
  172. Because as a as a world, it doesn't matter where
  173. you are.
  174. Someone in china can make a product that affects you
  175. drastically in the United States.
  176. So when in England can pass a law that creates
  177. waves of change, someone in a third world country can
  178. lose out on the opportunity for quality education and not
  179. achieve greatness.
  180. They could or Someone in a 3rd world country could
  181. receive quality education and go on to do great things.