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My name is Tajuanna Taylor. I was born September 22, 1975. Milwaukee, Wisconsin has been my hometown since birth. I attended St. Leo's Catholic School in 1980. In Kindergarten, I was very quiet and I loved seating on the carpet during storytime. My teacher was very nice to me. One of my aunts had a discussion with my mother about sending my to public school. My mother made the decision it would be best for me to attend school with my cousins. Therefore, I had to attend Happy Hill Elementary School. Later in life my sisters told me they thought something was wrong with me because I was going to a school called Happy Hill and this was the family joke. One of my sisters made up a song about me going to a school on a hill.

I graduated from Nicolet High School in 1994. In the Spring Semester of 1995, I left Milwaukee to attend Norfolk State University. This was my first time ever being so far away from home. Ii was the most difficult thing for me; being apart from my family for so long. On my summer break when I came home I made the decision not to return to Norfolk State, because I loved my family and I would miss them. I enrolled in various schools and applied to various programs. My desire to become a Teacher would come and go in my life. I remember as a little girl I asked my parents to purchase me a chalkboard so I could play Teacher. One Christmas they did surprise my with a chalkboard with wheels and I would move it around to different parts of the attic in our house. I would take important papers out of my mother's belongings in order to create student attendance sheets and files. My father told me my grandmother was a Teacher and I could go anywhere in this profession. He passed away October 5, 2010. He would be proud to tell my family on his side I am in school to get a Master's of Education degree.

In conclusion, since I have spent many years attempting to decide if this would be the right field of study for me, I look forward to the knowledge I will gain to assist me in my final career. I have a Business background and I desire to learn as much as I can about the field of Education. I am also excited about taking what I learn back to the classroom. It will give me the opportunity to discover what is going to work for me and how I can become a better Educator for my students.

1. Parents disinterested in their children by not coming to parent-teacher conference 2. Parents for assisting children with homework 3. Staff members who really don't care about the children in the schools 4. Funding not being what it use to 5. Education cuts - it's only cheating the students 6. Lack of free programs assisting students with homework 7. Oversized classrooms 8. Having students in classes with behavioral issues and learning disabilities
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Action Research: The question I would like to research is what are parents doing to preparing their K4 or K5 students for the first year of school. It is my observation a lot of students are going into school unprepared, for example, they do not know how to spell their last name or they cannot write their first name. Another thing I am noticing is there is lack of parent involvement with the children. You attempt to contact a student's parent about an issue and you do get any response, but if something happens to the child the parent is at the school right away. When they do come to school they are displaying behavior that is inappropriate. Parents need to be involved in their child(ren's) education from the start. They baby sitter mentality has to stop. Also, teachers need to be treated with respect. We are their for the children. We do not come to work to be a punching bag for the parents or to get verbally abused. ||