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CriticalExposure > STUDENT PROTEST Unique (12th grade), Baltimore Youth Congress "From K-12th grade, we're a wasted cause. We 'learn,' we do poorly on tests, we get expelled from school for fighting. Truth is, though, despite this stereotype displayed in the media, we care. We recognize that the failures and anger of city students is a product of our poor funding. Because of this, some of us channel our anger into our protests, and rather than fighting other students, we fight the real criminal: those that have the money, see the problem, but make every excuse to not solve the prblem. We'll keep trying...our Baltimore-bred spirits are not so easily broken."
CriticalExposure > SELF-PORTRAIT AT SCHOOL Jericka (6th grade), Kids on the Hill
CriticalExposure > BROKEN WINDOW Ian (10th grade), Teens Leaders for Change "This window has been broken for months. Insulation problems lead to higher energy costs."
CriticalExposure > FALLING CEILING Nia and Teneshia (8th and 12th grade), Community Law in Action's LEAD program "My picture shows a ceiling that fell in. I took this picture to show the bad condition our classes are in. I wanted this picture to say [the school] needed help." -Nia Monique, another student in 7th grade, says "It makes me feel scared because one day someone can walk past it and it might fall on them. If we have a storm while we're in school we could have a flood. Sometimes water comes through the ceiling and it's hard to pay attention. Marcia, another student, asks "How can you expect a child to learn when they are worried about the ceiling caving in on them? If this problem was to be fixed, which it should be, the school would be providing a good, stable, safe learning environment for its students."
CriticalExposure > BOOKSHELF Richard (8th grade), Safe and Sound's Youth Ambassadors "These are books in need of a new home. I took this picture because I wanted to show some of the conditions in the school system and the way students and teachers treat the books because we don't have any new books. The books get torn up and we can't read them and can't always do what the curriculum calls for."
CriticalExposure > RADIATOR AND STUDENT Monique, (7th grade), Kids on the Hill "I took a picture of a broken heater and part of a student. It was in my art classroom. It's still broken." Shanae, another student, says, "In the winter time it's cold in the school building and we have no heat and when you're cold you shiver and you can't really focus, then the teacher gets mad because you keep complaining and that causes them to stop teaching."
CriticalExposure > ART Unique (12th grade), Baltimore Youth Congress "Despite the lack of funding in our schools, as well as the fact that the arts and music programs are the first programs to lose funding, we keep painting. More importantly, we paint to create messages and push the envelope further than crayons and colored pencils. My teacher told us to explore pop art, colored pencils, and watercolor simultaneously in these paintings, and she hung them all over her wall in a proud, muralistic manner. Art simply cannot be stopped…"
CriticalExposure > TV AS TEACHER Eric (8th grade), Baltimore Youth Congress "'Where's the Teaching?' is the name of this photo. This television symbolizes how teachers use other materials to teach extremely large classes. Where is the student-teacher interaction? Where is the one-on-one engagement between the two? Three times out of the week we watch "documentaries" that "relate" to our unit of studies. When we do finally receive work from our teacher it is not relevant to our studies. This kind of teacher is not crucial to the development of students' minds."
CriticalExposure > CHEERLEADING PRACTICE Shaniece (6th grade), Kids on the Hill "This is a picture of me at cheerleading practice. It is a great way to exersize, and is something fun too. We practice in school 3 times a week. I'm glad school has activities (like cheerleading)."
STUDENT PROTEST
Unique (12th grade), Baltimore Youth Congress

"From K-12th grade, we're a wasted cause. We 'learn,' we do poorly on tests, we get expelled from school for fighting. Truth is, though, despite this stereotype displayed in the media, we care. We recognize that the failures and anger of city students is a product of our poor funding. Because of this, some of us channel our anger into our protests, and rather than fighting other students, we fight the real criminal: those that have the money, see the problem, but make every excuse to not solve the prblem. We'll keep trying...our Baltimore-bred spirits are not so easily broken."
CriticalExposure > STUDENT PROTEST Unique (12th grade), Baltimore Youth Congress "From K-12th grade, we're a wasted cause. We 'learn,' we do poorly on tests, we get expelled from school for fighting. Truth is, though, despite this stereotype displayed in the media, we care. We recognize that the failures and anger of city students is a product of our poor funding. Because of this, some of us channel our anger into our protests, and rather than fighting other students, we fight the real criminal: those that have the money, see the problem, but make every excuse to not solve the prblem. We'll keep trying...our Baltimore-bred spirits are not so easily broken."
STUDENT PROTEST
Unique (12th grade), Baltimore Youth Congress

"From K-12th grade, we're a wasted cause. We 'learn,' we do poorly on tests, we get expelled from school for fighting. Truth is, though, despite this stereotype displayed in the media, we care. We recognize that the failures and anger of city students is a product of our poor funding. Because of this, some of us channel our anger into our protests, and rather than fighting other students, we fight the real criminal: those that have the money, see the problem, but make every excuse to not solve the prblem. We'll keep trying...our Baltimore-bred spirits are not so easily broken."
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