Teachers Lounging

When KIPP started pushing me out of the school system, that's when I lost my interest in school. It wasn't until I got to college that I could begin to understand myself and the system. That's when the spark came back.

“Expectations were so incredibly high and people reached those expectations. They may not have liked it in the moment, there may have been some struggle, but that’s part of the process”

[KIPP schools] are not just entities. They are made up of people. To judge the people of an organization on the entirety of that organization or [its] explicit practices or promoted practices… it took a teacher to give you that gave you that education that bumped you past your peers when you left KIPP.

When KIPP started pushing me out of the school system, that’s when I lost my interest in school. It wasn’t until I got to college that I could begin to understand myself… and the system… and that’s when the spark came back.

In the last episode, Rafael and I shared our similar yet vastly different experiences as boys of color in private schools, college, and some plights facing some of the most inspirational teachers. We now pick up where we left off, on the lack of humanity our education system approaches students, teachers, and educators in general.

In Teachers Lounging inaugural episode, I sit down with prolific non-profit educator Rafael Trujillo to discuss our experiences in private schools, after school programing, and the lack of humanity in which teachers and students are considered.