Dalia is a senior at Kelvyn Park High School She is 18 years old. She has one brother. She's an outgoing but serious person who takes school seriously. She will be the first person in her family to graduate high school. Her dream is to graduate college and become an art teacher and would love to teach young student the beauty of art. She will be graduating in summer school due to the lack of credits needed to pass and graduate on time. The reason why she is doesn't have the credits needed to graduate is because as a freshman she didn't really pay attention to the grades she got and began to hang out with the wrong crowd. But she is now working on graduating in the summer and trying to gain as much credits possible.
Daila’s outlook on education is very very different compared to what others may think. She believes that every school should have a more hands on way for teaching students and thinks it would be most effective. She stated that if she could make and run her own school, “It would be everything to do with art! Any art form is acceptable. Painting, singing, dancing anything!” Even though she will be the first in her family to finish high school not everyone is happy about it. Her mother is not happy about her success. Dalia doesn't have the perfect relationship with her mother. She feels as if “her mother loves her brother more than her… I guess it’s genetics.” She doesn't completely understand why she thinks its okay for her mother to be like that but it’s okay with Dalia.
Dalia wasn’t like any other girl while growing up. She was bullied and teased for “being a little chunkier than the rest of my friends.” Also Dalia and her family went through a rough time while crossing the Mexican border when Dalia was at only age three, and she still remembers it like it was yesterday. Due to her lack of English, Dalia had a really rough time at school. She almost wanted to drop out. “What kid wants to drop out of school so young? It was stupid.” As Dalia grew up like any teenage girl in Chicago, she was worried about her safety due to her gender. Instead no one is safe to actually walk around the streets of Chicago without having to watch their backs… that’s impossible!! Anyone could be a victim of sexual, verbal, or physical abuse by anyone at any time. She was asked a question about how does she feels about teenage girls getting pregnant in high school and her response was that she “thinks its normal. Like when you're a little girl, your parents buy you little baby dolls and you take care of it and it is just away to show young girls about responsibility and once it’s done there parents should be accepting to their daughters.”
She doesn't work at job yet but she in fact works at teaching her younger family members what's wrong and what's right. She feels as if they should learn from their mistakes but she will always be there if needed.
Lastly Dalia’s perspective on heroes and role models, She feels as if there basically the same. BUT a role model is someone who gets looked up to and inspires you to do good. Meanwhile a hero is someone who is brave and does selfless actions without accepting anything in return. She doesn't personally think she is a hero nor a role model, but she hopes she is a “hero in the making.”
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