'Who I am and who I aspire to be'

As both a current tutor and a student, l believe that contemporary Machiavellianism is the root cause of our failing education system. As educational reformers hardly explicate their ambiguous speeches. The special needs program consistently fails to make the political agenda. Lifting the opaque veil of

politicized academia, only to find high levels of insufficiency was what lured me into the political arena.

Experiencing firsthand the public curriculum too inefficient for the amount of students responsible for, I began to ponder about academic complexities and its implications. Every day as I walked to my English class, I saw the special education classroom jam-packed with twenty students with only a single teacher.

Interviewing parents and teachers, l realized they had all expressed their concerns through district and city board meetings, but little to no progress had been made. In order to achieve higher understanding of how this came to be in our current system, I enrolled in all the available fundamental political science

courses.

Each course was a ripple in my political ocean of understanding; the teachings of Hobbes, Nietzsche, and Plato flowed like mythical stories as I studied and memorized political theories with newfound determination. And sure my mastery was shown through high marks on pristine white papers and

recognition on the Presidential Honor Lists, but did it show through my actions? I wanted to experience first-hand into how it felt to manage education and help these students first, before truly judging for all its faults.

Teaching at a special-needs based tutoring center, I realized how difficult it was to specialize attention to each child, even just for nine children. But as they began calling me "'Mr. Joseph Kim" and made progress exceeding their parents' expectations, l wanted to make it my future to help this

underrepresented population grow and thrive. Dreaming of becoming a UN Ambassador to create transparent policies that don't mislead the public, l desire to learn on higher level with a diverse community that envisions the same goal: to create fairness in education as everybody's natural rights, no matter how difficult it would be.