The thing that jumped out at me from this chapter was a quote by Andres. He said "In seventh grade my grades started slipping, I noticed I had a lot more freedom, and I stopped doing my work. But they kept on passing me, even though I wasn't doing anything. It's not like it was about my learning, it was about moving us through to high school. I hated that."
This struck me because it is so sad. These teachers probably thought they were being kind to him, by not allowing his bad choices to have serious consequences, but in reality they were doing him harm. A few bad grades in seventh grade, even to the point of having to repeat the grade, would help him realize that, when he did eventually buckle down and get some work done, the grades he got meant something. They were something he could be proud of.
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