In the fall of 2015, I arrived at the Highbridge Green School in the South Bronx as a Teach For America Corps Member to teach special education math.
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The Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx can feel isolated. No local banks or restaurants. The schools are located in the poorest congressional district of the U.S., with some of the highest obesity, hunger, and asthma rates in the country. Both schools are in an area called Highbridge, which has a per capita income of roughly $17,000 and a population in which only 14 percent of adults above the age of 25 have a college degree.