Victor Rios: Help for kids the education system ignores
ויקטור ריוס: איך לעזור לילדים שמערכת החינוך מתעלמת מהם
Victor Rios seeks to uncover how to best support the lives of young people who experience poverty, stigma and social exclusion. Full bio
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that have been pushed out of school,
by the education system,
where they're vulnerable to violence,
for years at a time,
the "school-to-prison pipeline."
"מסלול ביה"ס אל הכלא".
has a bottle of liquor in his hand,
האוחז בידו בקבוק ליקר,
through a perspective
that they bring to the education system.
the way we label young people
את הדרך בה אנו מתייגים צעירים
and the promise to change?
in dire poverty in the inner city,
בעוני מחפיר, בעיר הפנימית,
three times for three felonies.
שלוש פעמים בשלוש עבירות,
for the ambulance to arrive
because the system had failed me.
כי המערכת אכזבה אותי.
I could make it to my 18th birthday.
ליום ההולדת ה-18 שלי.
that cared reached out
that was always in your business.
שתמיד היתה בעניינים שלכם.
whenever you're ready."
about young people like me.
בונגע לאנשים צעירים כמוני.
when we're ready,
my people, my family.
האנשים שלי, המשפחה שלי.
because I was broke,
in the back of his van,
would get all bloody.
and I would stop working.
and he would say to me,
something out of nothing."
have taught you a hard-work ethic
לימדו אותך מוסר עבודה קשה
yourself in the academic world
and empower your community."
right before graduation,
thinking I'm going to college?
שהיא חושבת שאני הולך למכללה?
and support she provided,
under probationary status."
I'm already on probation,
not criminal probation.
do to succeed with young people
עושים כדי להצליח עם אנשים צעירים
deficit perspective in education.
come from a culture of violence,
these people are truant.
for us to fill with knowledge.
בשבילנו למלא בידע.
bring to the schoolhouse.
מביאים לבית הספר.
insurmountable odds are so powerful.
על סיכויים בלתי אפשריים הם כל כך חזקים.
and resilience in them.
refine those stories.
לעדן את הסיפורים האלה.
welcomes their families, their cultures,
את המשפחות שלהם, את התרבות,
they've learned to survive.
being the most important:
adequate resources to young people.
לאנשים צעירים.
and tell me all you want,
by the bootstraps."
without any straps on my boots --
to learn from their mistakes
of their classrooms like animals.
justice in every high school in America.
בכל תיכון באמריקה.
in the community of Watts in LA
בקהילה בוואטס בלוס אנג'לס
that had been pushed out of school.
that had been given every label.
whenever you're ready."
that he made the switch.
in the newspaper the next day.
I don't know what to do,
on the desk and he said,
turned into joy and laughter
הפכו לאושר ושמחה
that he did have a purpose in life:
of people in his own community.
to being the story of a survivor
ללהיות סיפור של שורד
to become a security guard,
at a local school district.
the mind will follow."
have emerged the greatest souls.
are seared with scars."
revolution that we're talking about
שעליה אנחנו מדברים
of the young people that we work with,
של האנשים הצעירים איתם אנחנו עובדים,
resilience and character
the right kinds of resources.
into believing in myself.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Victor Rios - Educator, authorVictor Rios seeks to uncover how to best support the lives of young people who experience poverty, stigma and social exclusion.
Why you should listen
Based on over a decade of research, Dr. Victor Rios created Project GRIT (Generating Resilience to Inspire Transformation) a human development program that works with educators to refine leadership, civic engagement and personal and academic empowerment in young people placed at-risk.
Rios is a professor of sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. in comparative ethnic studies from the University of California, Berkeley in 2005. His book Punished: Policing the Lives of Black and Latino Boys discusses the many ways in which young urban males of color encounter the youth control complex: a ubiquitous system of punitive social control embedded in what has come to be known as the school-to-prison pipeline.
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