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When I opened Mott Hall Bridges Academy in 2010, my goal was simple: open a school to close a prison.
在2010年我開辦了莫特館橋學院，我的目標很簡單：創辦一所學校，以關閉一所監獄。
Now to some, this was an audacious goal, because our school is located in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn
一些人可能會認為，這是個大膽的目標，原因在于我們的學校位于布魯克林的布朗斯維爾地區
one of the most underserved and violent neighborhoods in all of New York City.
在紐約市所有城市中暴力頻發缺少治理最嚴重的城區之一。
Like many urban schools with high poverty rates, we face numerous challenges,
和許多高貧困率的城區學校一樣，我們面臨著眾多挑戰，
like finding teachers who can empathize with the complexities of a disadvantaged community,
比如尋找那些能對弱勢群體的復雜情況感同身受的老師，
lack of funding for technology, low parental involvement and neighborhood gangs that recruit children as early as fourth grade.
缺乏技術資金支持，還缺少家長參與度，甚至周邊的幫派不時會招募年僅四年級的孩子。
So here I was, the founding principal of a middle school that was a district public school, and I only had 45 kids to start.
所以我在這里創辦了一所地區公立中學，創立之初只有45個孩子。
Thirty percent of them had special needs. Eighty-six percent of them were below grade level in English and in math.
其中三成有特殊需求。86%的孩子在英語和數學方面落后平均水平。
And 100 percent were living below the poverty level.
并且他們的生活水平全都處于貧困線之下。
If our children are not in our classrooms, how will they learn?
如果我們的孩子不在我們的課堂，他們如何學習？
And if they're not learning, where would they end up?
如果他們不學習，他們將何去何從？
