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YouthBuild Charter School of California Grad Maritza Ibarra is Undroppable

Added Jan 26, 2021 •

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YouthBuild Charter School of California graduate Maritza Ibarra was featured in this interview as part of the social media documentary, "Undroppable" when she was still enrolled at our East LA/ LA CAUSA campus. She later graduated and earned her diploma in 2012.

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I started ditching school a lot to do bad things like party and drink because I kind of thought that when I did that like I felt like I was stronger person. I would go drunk to school too. I don't know why I just did. When you change your mentality in a positive way it's going to help you grow as a person. I think that this talk that I had on my brother actually got to me and he made me realize how much I need education and if I don't have it how am I going to transform into some someone else. I'm going to be the same and staying the same in the nation we live in now it's going to get you very far. I repeated the 12th grade another time and to know that I'm doing it again is kind of embarrassing or it was embarassing, now I'm not because I know a lot of kids go through it and you shouldn't be embarrassed of that. I have plans for the future now and I know what I want to do. Back then I just wanted a job that can pay my bills in the future. I wanted a job, I just wanted to get my diploma, but I didn't have a way of actually getting it and here I actually have a plan. Hi, I'm Eliza and I am undroppable.

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