The idea of having to teach your child the dominant culture way in order to ensure their readiness to enter school is an unfortunate idea. To me, America is a melting pot of so many unique people, communities, and cultures. This home-school relationship should be able to work with the culture and uniqueness a child brings and work with that in order to give the child what she or he needs. I think every culture should be welcomed and celebrated and the schooling system should shift to be able to preform well no matter what culture/language you are coming form. Having more support and resources for all cultures so that each family can access the same recourses and prepare their child for formal schooling while also maintaining their own values, beliefs, and cultures is needed.

This reminds me of our work we did with unintentional bias in our social foundations course. We have so many biases that come through in our everyday practice as educators that may come through without our knowledge. In the case of family involvement in the school, I think as educators who understand and value the importance of family involvement, it is our job to encourage participation and help the family's come in, whether or not we have a bias as to if they can or want to come into the classroom.

I completely agree with this statement and how it relates to Freire's concept of "dialogical love." I think it is of utmost importance to have faith in people, and give them opportunities just like you would any other. The only thing that creates some dissonance with me is that this seems so easy to do theoretically, but really very hard to put into practice. When I was reading this, I thought back to our discussions in Social Foundations surrounding unconscious biases and how they are frequently present in our daily interactions with others without even realizing it. Our society perpetuates these biases, stereotypes, and generalizations towards people that cause us to not have faith in people or believe in them before we even meet them as Freire states. Our society, as well as how our brains are wired, are based on forming generalizations and categorizing people or groups. This is why, although I completely agree with Freire's statement, I think it is more theoretical than practical.

This reminds me of behavior that we see at school that parents are not seeing at home. As educators, we may reach out to families for support on addressing an issue, but the parents may not be seeing any of this same behavior at home. Bronfenbrenner does a great job at explaining that every situation one is in, will bring about different results purely based on the environment. In this case, educators may want to shift our own research questions to highlight the differences in environment, and how those are causing a child to act differently in different settings.