Angelica Bejarano This is Me

Education

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1. 1. AABE--Teachers in wrong schools

   www.azbilingualed.org/AABE%20S - [Cached]

   Published on: 8/3/2003   Last Visited: 10/7/2004

   Angelica Bejarano earned her master's degree in elementary education from the UA this spring. She had planned to work with elementary-school-age children but Bejarano will teach language arts to seventh graders at Hohokam beginning in two weeks.
   
   "I actually put in several applications and they were the first to call," she said. "I've lived here for the last 10 years. . . . I see these kids out on the streets. I know some of their parents already on a personal level."
   
   Bejarano, who has raised her own teen-agers, said her community ties give her an edge in the classroom. Peer pressure, gangs and drugs are just a few of the obstacles students face. She said they just need guidance.
   
   "You have to be pretty confident in yourself and your ability to leave your biases at home in order to face some of these children and their challenges," Bejarano said.