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Student's Writings
October 2, 2024

"The students were reminded by none other than Kermit the Frog that 'It's not easy being green.' They were then asked to consider what about their lives is 'not easy.' The students' essays on this topic were excellent. Here is an example." Don Riesett, Writing Mentor & Teacher It’s not easy being diagnosed with depression and anxiety at just 13 years old. I am currently 14 but I’m pretty sure I showed signs before I was actually diagnosed. It sucks to wake up some days having almost no energy for reasons I don’t know why. I had to get medication because I couldn’t sleep some nights. No matter how hard I tried my brain wouldn't shut down for the night. Some people on social media think it's quirky, cute, and aesthetic to have a mental illness. As some who experienced it firsthand, it’s neither of those things. The reason I don’t tell a lot of people about it is because they might think I’m pretending or lying to them. Even little things like having small interactions with people or going to a new place has my brain spiraling and thinking of every possible situation where something could go wrong. My anxiety triggers my stress and then it goes off into a huge mess. When I’m upset I usually end up completely shutting down. I don’t say anything to anyone. Not even to a close friend. People that don’t completely understand my situation might think that I’m rude because I space out a little. I’m mean...

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Student's Writings
October 2, 2024

"The students were reminded by none other than Kermit the Frog that 'It's not easy being green.' They were then asked to consider what about their lives is 'not easy.' The students' essays on this topic were excellent. Here is an example." Don Riesett, Writing Mentor & Teacher Starting a new community isn't easy. Being a freshman, I'm going through many challenges. I have to be precise with my work which is very time consuming. I can't go to a lot of events with my friends and I feel alone most of the time. Trying to talk to people outside of this community is very difficult. I always see my friends having a wonderful time at their high school, no stress from homework, going to football games, going to the mall etc. Every time I hear my friends talking about their high school experience compared to mine I always think to myself, “dang it's not easy to be me” Here,I am worried about if I’m going to be on the homework list while my friends around me are worried about clubs, school dances, sports etc. While the teachers have been saying I've been doing good with homework, I've had a major setback today and it made me think, I feel so out of place because my friends aren't stressed like me and the people around me at this school are doing a lot better than I am. So I say all of this to say it's not easy. Before...

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Student's Writings
October 2, 2024

"The students were reminded by none other than Kermit the Frog that 'It's not easy being green.' They were then asked to consider what about their lives is 'not easy.' The students' essays on this topic were excellent. Here is an example." Don Riesett, Writing Mentor & Teacher It’s not easy being me. Now I could list probably 10 reasons why it’s not easy to be me. For now I’ll just give you one of the major reasons. I am the first in my family who is planning to go to college and get a degree. My mother went to Mervo and did part-time cosmetology so she could become a cosmetologist by the time she graduated high school. She then worked in salons until she had to quit to take care of me. I would get sick a lot when I was little because of my asthma, and in pre-k I missed 30 days of school because of my asthma. She started working from home and took some of her customers to her hair station in our basement. My father was really smart in school, mainly when it came to math and science. He went to Poly. He wasn’t a fan of school and dropped out in the 10th grade to start working with his older brother. He is now a contractor and does home improvement. He is really good at his job, but wishes he had finished school so he could be making more money than he does now. One of my older cousins, who...

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Student's Writings
October 2, 2024

"The students were reminded by none other than Kermit the Frog that 'It's not easy being green.' They were then asked to consider what about their lives is 'not easy.' The students' essays on this topic were excellent. here is an example." Don Riesett, Writing Mentor & Teacher It’s so hard to be this sexy, attractive, cute human being. Everyone wants a piece of me. Especially older men. They were so infatuated with me that my mother told me to stop wearing shorts, short tight dresses, and crop tops. She even tried to bring down my self-esteem by telling me I’m ugly because I’m incredibly huge. But I started to realize she’s only saying that because I’m the middle child and her oldest girl. And to her, that means that as soon as I hit puberty I became a woman and had to start acting like one. Being the oldest girl from the new generation of immigrants is the most difficult thing. It comes with so much responsibility you are not warned about. If there is a child younger than me in the house, it means I have to be able to take care of them as much as I can, as if I were their mother. It means I have to learn how to cook and clean for my future family but also for the family I am currently a part of. But it also means I have to stay far away from males because, if I hold the hand of a male, I will...

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News
September 27, 2024

Teri Henderson, Lisa Snowden and Sanya Kamidi joined us for our Conversation this week. They are responsible for the Baltimore Beat, a unique local newspaper. They shared their experiences producing the paper, especially as women of color. This nonprofit free paper is produced every two weeks and seeks to give voice to those in Baltimore whose voice is often not heard. The conversation explored their educational and career paths as well as the mission and operation of the paper. The students shared the kind of stories they would most like to see covered and the need for youth voices to be amplified. We appreciate having these trailblazers join us!...

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TCS Student News
September 27, 2024

[embed]https://youtu.be/Vv9qQtuGb_4[/embed]The war between Israel andLebanon is on students' minds and is the lead story in this week's edition of TCS Student News. This is a good place to not only catch up on news events but to get a youth perspective. This week's edition was produced by Madison Hansel and Mohamed Cisse with technical production by Rhys Guilfoyle. News around the school includes our first Financial Literacy seminar of the year by Berman McAleer, a Conversation with TCS Alumni, the recent Sponsor Meeting and a Spotlight on Dr. Latonia Moss, our English 101 teacher from Baltimore City Community College....

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News
September 19, 2024

It was a packed room as students, family members and sponsors gathered for the first sponsor meeting fo the year.  It was a chance for everyone to renew ties and for new folks to get to know one another.  Mr. Tom gave a sweeping overview of the school's approach to education and went over the expectations of everyone.  The students shared their experiences in the first few weeks of school and several sponsors shared their positive views.  The next meeting will be in December....

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News
September 19, 2024

Budgeting was the topic of the 1st Financial Literacy Seminar of the year.  This monthly seminar is sponsored, staffed and developed under the capable direction of Kathleen Gower, by Berman McAeer (BMc), a wealth management company.  Nearly all of the staff at BMc come in on a rotating basis throughout the year to assist in the teaching.  This month Deanna Heid and Amy McAuliffe Cooper joined Kathleen serving a delicious lunch and then teaching the class. The students learned the basics of budgeting and setting short and long term goals. For the next few class, they are to track all of their expenses - both the ones they pay for directly and that are provided for them. This will be used as a basis for the next seminar. This is learning an essential life skill that the students take all four years at TCS with the goal of helping them make informed choices in their future financial lives.  We deeply appreciate the folks at Berman McAleer for making this possible!...

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