Dialogue
twice by a student, so.
Yeah. Welcome to our world.
That’s very good. And we understand that with students, even with adults. But you want a mix of all of it. But you’re right. Someone who’s just going to flake all the time is just not going to be useful.
Yeah. How many kids would you like? I’ve got three that are really on the top of my mind that I think would be really good.
And who are those three?
So Sophia, Nadine, and Sida.
So it’s girls. It’s all girls. Just curious.
Id does happen to be all young ladies.
Well, girls are better, Elina.
I know, Kim.
I mean–
I didn’t want to say that in this mixed company.
Yeah. I mean, they are more reliable and thoughtful. I’m just saying.
That’s fine. I wanted to just confirm that. What do you think, Tom?
I agree with Kim completely.
No. Yeah.
Someone has some sense too. Good job. Good men. Good men.
I mean, to me, three would be good even to start with just to get– because you just don’t know who you’re going to want, how it’s going to all shake out.
Yeah. And then those three will flake out on you, all three of them, high achieving grandkids.
Right. So we may end up highlighting one little bit more than the other. You just don’t know at this point, and we don’t want to disappoint people. But so if we talk to them, we will certainly work them in some way. It’s just a question of the narrative and the challenges of having multiple narratives going at once because we’re going to do this with probably one other school in the consortium. And so you’ve got a dual narrative going already. And if you have two or three kids in each one, you got six, up to six. And that becomes complicated as a writing exercise not to get too far into the nuts and bolts of it. But certainly, to start with, three would be great. And I’m sure we would learn a lot from all three of them. Another priority for us is racial diversity. There is a little bit of a wrap as you may know on the consortium that is private, privileged, and white kids who are more inclined to be doing this. And we want to explore that. And part suggest that this is potentially a program, a strategy that serves all kids. I mean, it’s much less interesting, frankly, to us that if it’s just– got a very narrow focus on more privileged white kids. Our mission, which I didn’t say is to promote more educational opportunities and better outcomes for disadvantaged kids, kids who are in other sort of traditionally underserved populations of students. So having racial diversity in this project is very important.
Yeah. And that’s one of the reasons why I picked those three students. So Sophia is one of our original students here at Pathways. She’s from a white suburban background. But then Sida is also one of the Pathways originals. She’s been with us for years. But she is Sudanese by way of Kenya and then Milwaukee. And I believe her. She lives in a habitat. I think her family has a habitat home on the near north side here in Milwaukee. I’m 90% sure that that’s true. So not a huge amount of wealth behind that family. And so there’s a couple kinds of diversity here. And then Nadean is mixed race, I believe. I’m not going to classify her because I’m not 100% sure of her background. But then so has seen and had a very challenging childhood, but he’s also just a phenomenal human.
Yeah. Great. That’s great.
Do you think that they’re–? Do you know their families to some extent you think they would have families that would be willing to talk to us?
Yes. I mean, the Detillios, I feel like they get very excited to do so. I’ll have to talk to [inaudible]. Nadean’s mom is sometimes engaged in things. Sometimes not. And so Nadean really runs around show for pretty much everything in her life. So but I feel like that would probably work out.
Nadean can get her mom to do what she wants, but you may not get a whole. So she may meet with you. You may not get a whole lot of substance.
Substance.
That’s okay. I mean, you never know. I was just curious that these are families that at least might be willing to participate. Yeah.
And Sida’s mom works a lot.
Isn’t there a language barrier to Sida’s mum?
Yeah. She speaks some English.
What is her language?
Her language is probably– I don’t know. Is Kenyan a language?
No. It’s–
I don’t know.
I was just curious.
Well, there’s a lot of different languages there.
Something from North Sudan.
Okay. It’s just not an easy language to get a translator like Spanish.
But Sida could translate, right?
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That–
So if you–
That actually would be great. I mean, that would be a nice sort of–
That’s a nice touch. Yeah. That sounds really good. We’ll interview them. Just one last question on them. Do any of them have already their idea of what college they want to go? Do they already have their eyes somewhere?
Sida is applying early decision. So she’s been our– James’ a nice pilot with the Mastery Transcript. The rest of us have done it for other students before. We had a different impact coordinator last year. And so James and I produced one for Sophia. She’s already applied. And the school is completed the common app and done NYU early decision, early admission, whatever term they–
Just flip the Mastery Transcript, no other transcript.
Yep. She’s using Mastery Transcript. We have backups and alternatives just in case weird things happen with grades and things, and James has been working through that this week. But she’s using the Mastery Transcript is what she put in for her application.
That’s interesting. For NYU, that’s interesting.