Everything you touch you change?

This question is simple yet complex. There are so many avenues you can travel with how you respond. I thought about adding my essay written 3 years ago. However, laziness will not get the best of me. Teaching in my mind is not just a career choice or a path of least resistance. Teaching like most things are a way of life. It is a way of being that exemplifies the highest possibility for the observer that no one can teach. This is why I want to have the job title of "Certified Teacher". It would give me the license to educate everyone around me and in turn make me responsible for the outcomes of every scholar, adult and community member that comes my way for insight. The role of an educator is not just in the classroom. The role of an educator is in life. I want to be that for as many children as possible, no matter their age or demographic. I see minds that need mending, and lives that need a little push in the right direction. That's why I want to teach. To changes lives by changing the minds sets of the children who think there is no way out, I want to begin by giving them the hope of possibilities, and instruction on how to go on despite the adversities.
My life story is what brings me to the table with so much passion. I was a statistic, considered marginal and not apart of the mainstream because I am of African decent. I was treated with a veiled sentiment-of disdain by the educational administration. Shoved from one to school to the next without warning or changed by a district superintendent who was fighting some political need of politicians that had never lived in my shoes. I wanted to have a voice that would be heard. Not sitting on my laurels, I know I have to go and get it. When I made the firm decision to teach in doing my research I choose the areas that have the worst outcomes, lowest percentage rates of students who actually go on to college, and the system that is loosing its African-American male population. New York City public school system was number 2 on my list only behind Cleveland Ohio’s public school system. New York has always been my dream place to live. I was not sure that I could actually teach in the school system. The initial requirements where more than the education I had at the time, and I did not want to go back to school. Five years passed from the day that I made the decision that I wanted to teach. I went back to school-CUNY: Brooklyn College, where I have fallen in love with New York City all over again- and another five years have passed. Now, I am equipped with the right amount of knowledge to begin the process of becoming a teacher, however I am at a crossroad. This is where the fellows program comes into my equation. If I am chosen to participate in this program I will be guaranteed a position that will facilitate my goal of becoming an educator. The good thing about this is, even if I am not slated to filter my way through your system I will be known as an educator and I will teach/mentor children living in New York City.