We spend a great deal of time telling teachers they need an intense grounding in teaching standards and meeting requirements, but I think a quality teacher must also be caring enough to instill self-confidence in students.
Personally I believe that teachers have a lot more of a job than just teaching school subjects. Sometimes students don't have much to look up to, and when teachers teach life lessons and things beyond just subjects, it is a big help to students.
Still, all in all, life was great. My parents loved me, and I got along with my younger brother. In fact, the biggest downside to being poor was that my mom and dad had to work really hard.
Although being "poor" is not the greatest thing ever, having parents who work extremely hard is good for kids to grow up seeing, because it shows the kids how much things are worth, and it teaches them work ethic.
I can relate to this. Growing up I had a lot of hammy downs from my older brother and everything was always big, and I also didn't get to really pick my clothes, it was "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit"
. A feral child. Maybe growing up around such beauty, you believe you are rich. Danny's pejorative term, though, would be only the first inkling of what was to come. But I'll never forget that Danny started it in third grade. Third grade was a bad year. Third grade was the year I learned in school that I was poor. The "Vorce" I remember in elementary school when Ricky walked passed me in the hallway and hissed, "My mom says you're divorced and you don't have a father and that you're poor, White trash." I didn't know what "the vorce" was, but it sounded bad to me. You learn in fourth-grade West Virginia history that Mother's Day was founded in Grafton, West Virginia, on May 10, 1908, and Father's Day in Fair-mont, West Virginia, on July 5, 1908. But I learned in school that a father was simply one more thing that other children had that I didn't. And I learned fast that making Father's Day cards was awful. I made them silently, then obediently took them home and gave them to my bewildered mother. Because of Ricky, I felt self-conscious about doing the family tree assign-ment. Everyone else's tree had beautiful, perfectly symmetrical limbs on it, a father limb and a mother limb. My fatherless tree only had a mother limb on one side, and it looked like those pine trees on top of Pikes Peak, where the wind had whipped all the limbs onto one side. My tree wasn't whole. It wasn't until I got to seventh grade and had to take shop class t~at I real-ized how important it was to have the prerequisite of a father. What dtd I know of hammers and tools and woodworking? I grew timid and unsure of myself in 23
Reading this paragraph makes me wonder, if you don't know you are poor, are you really poor? I understand that some people define being "rich" as having a lot of money, and "poor" as having little money, but sometimes being rich is just loving life and having fun.
Students from low-income backgrounds are less likely to have access to medical care, which can allow vision, dental, hearing, and other health ailments (including asthma) to go untreated.
This really affects the students because if they have problems such as eye sight or hearing, and they cannot afford to test them and get them fixed, the kids will unknowingly be at a huge disadvantage for learning.
In reality, the cost of living varies dra-matically based on geography; for example, people classifi ed as poor in San Francisco might not feel as poor if they lived in Clay County, Kentucky.
This is a good point. The place you live really does determine this because a tiny little house in San Francisco could be a big house in some parts of maybe Texas. This redefines the word "poverty" for me.
How would you feel if your son or daughter were a student in Mr. Hawkins’s class?
I would be disappointed in this teacher because from the way this sounds, he doesn't truly care about these students lives, and the struggles they are going through. He is just worried about when he gets to retire, if he were a good teacher, he would recognize the bigger picture and put his all into helping out these kids and fixing some problems they have such as lack of motivation.
As children attend child-care facilities and elemen-tary school, they are gradually introduced to racial socialization in peer groups. Young children’s racist behavior is often excused by adults on the grounds that children are naïve innocents and often slip
In my opinion, this kind of thing has to do with the way the child is raised. If their parents are letting it slip when they make a racist or stereotypical comment, it is going to teach the child that it is okay. If the child is well disciplined, they will not want to do it again, because they know it is wrong.
Several respondents have tried to view racial teasing and taunting as normal, as a “fact of young or adolescent life.” The language used by respondents to describe school experiences implies that they must endure a certain standard level of racist teasing and taunting.
They should not have to go through every day living like this, enduring a certain amount of racism, and just learning to "deal with it" this should be an issue that is long over, and it should have ended 50 years ago. For all I know, racism never should have been a thing to begin with. We need to look at everyone the same, talk to everyone the same, and think of everyone the same.
While one can argue that some types of racism exist in other countries in the absence of whites, racism is a white-crafted system here in the United States.
I agree that the racism in America is built up by white Americans due to the long history of the country. Whites have a history of being discriminant and racist and it needs to come to an end.
n December 3, 2009, fifty Asian American students were attacked on and around their South Philadelphia High School campus. Thirty of them sustained injuries serious enough to warrant a hospital visit. These Asian American stu-dents were targeted, and school officials had ignored their complaints of bully-ing and pleas for protection for years. School days were rough for these Asian American students, as their classmates routinely hurled racial epithets; pelted them with food; and beat, punched, and kicked them in school hallways and bathrooms.
This is pure racism and violence going on at this school. I understand this was a long time ago, but these things need to be talked about more. Discrimination is not okay and there needs to be justice for the Asian American students bullied at schools.
As one young Korean American who grew up in a white community puts it, the dominance of whites explains the “thoughtless ways white Americans often inhabit a sense of entitlement and egocentric normality.”3 Like other Asian Americans, these young people report racialized mistreatment, ranging from subtle to covert to overt discrimination. The successful minority image does not protect them from the onslaughts of discriminatory whites.
The things Asian Americans are going through currently are a huge problem and there needs to be a change. We need to be better as a whole in fixing these stereotypes, and being more inclusive to everybody.
I had experienced with Asian American women I know. In the fall of 2001, R. W., a young Chinese American, bludgeoned and strangled her mother. While her mother lay dead on the floor, she covered her and called the police, confessing her crime
It makes me wonder why she would do such a thing, there has to be a further reason into what made her do such a horrible thing to her mother.
Their relatively high levels of educational attain-ment and household income, and their overrepresentation in professional occu-pations, make it seem as if they are doing better than other racial minorities or even some whites. However, the white-constructed label of “model minority” awarded to Asian Americans does not protect them from prejudice and racism.
These types of stereotypes can cause bad oppression because other people are mad to see someone doing better than they are, and it causes an evil person to be racist towards them.
For some reason, my inability to get in touch with Farrah triggered all the “what if ” scenarios.
This is also a scary feeling, when your emotions make you want to start saying "what if" to everything, and it makes you incredibly stressed out.
I tried my best not to panic, but to explain my nervousness to my partner with whom I shared numerous studies about Asian American women and their high rates of suicide and depression.
This must have been a horrifying moment for Rosalind. She was probably so worried that something terrific had happened to her good friend.
172 Looking to the Future Thus, teachers sometimes refrain from calling on Native American students to avoid causing them discomfort, and these children subsequently miss the opportunity to discuss or display their knowledge of the subject matter.
Discomfort is sometimes the right type of thing for this situation. They need to teach the kids that they need to be comfortable being uncomfortable, and it is a life skill that they need for the future.
Cathy was dutifully going about the task assigned to her, that of placing a number of objects next to various numerals printed on a cloth. She appeared co be thor-oughly engaged, attending totally to the task at hand, and never disturbing anyone near her. Meanwhile, the teacher's attention was devoted to the children who demanded her presence in one form or another or to those she believed would have difficulty with the task assigned them. Small, quiet Cathy fit neither category.
This brings out a new perspective to me. If a kid is automatically assumed to be smart because of their race or the way they look, people will just assume they don't need help and will focus on the other kids, when in reality they do need help and are getting surpassed and ignored.
African-American children are more likely to obey the first explicit directive and ignore the second implied directive.
I could agree that some students might have different listening skills based off the way they are used to at home. If a kids parents are nicely toned, and polite to their kid when asking them to do a task, the kid is going to react different. And vise versa, if a kid is used to harsh parents at home, they will react different to a polite teacher at school.
Yes, I agree that sometimes a child's home and the way that they are raised up can get mixed up with the culture of the school. When the kid is growing up getting taught a certain thing, and they go to school and it is the opposite of that, it must be hard for the student and makes them very confused.
Whites are the preferred group in US society. The stereotypes, omissions, and distortions that reinforce no-tions of White superiority are breathed in by Black children as well as White. Simply as a function of being socialized in a Eurocentric culture, some Black children may begin to value the role models, lifestyles, and images of beauty represented by the dominant group more highly than those of their own cultural group.
This paragraph really does a good job explaining to me how messed up our society is. The longer we wait to just see everyone as the same, treat everyone the same, look at everyone the same, the longer racism is going to be a thing in America. I was raised to not look at everyone differently because of the way the looked, talked, dressed, or acted, and it seems like the world now is trying to tell me otherwise.
If you walk into racially mixed elementary schools, you will often see young children of diverse racial backgrounds playing with one another, sitting at the snack table together, crossing racial boundaries with an ease uncommon in adoles-cence.
It seems like as they go on up from elementary to the upper levels of schooling, they just find themselves forming with different groups. As a non racist person, I believe that if we keep looking at peoples skin color and saying "why are they all together", racism is never going to go away, because we look at people differently. We as humanity need to look at everyone as the same equally or else this problem will never go away.
FOUR Identity Development in Adolescence "Why are all the Black kids sitting together in the cafeteria?" WALK INTO ANY RACIALLY MIXED HIGH SCHOOL CAFETERIA AT LUNCH-tune 3:11d you will instantly notice that in the sea of adolescent faces, there is an identifiable group of Black students sitting together.
In my opinion, diversity is good but why does it matter? It is not like the other raced kids just kick them out and made them go sit at their own table, that is where it would be a problem. One thing in todays society that is problematic is how much people focus on different races and skin colors. In reality, it does not matter.
It is pretty terrible that things like this are still going on. We need to put further focus on these issues instead of problems that aren't so important.
As light-skinned Hispanics they stood out, and Clara has vivid memories of being chased home by black kids from school through a darkened freeway underpass.
sounds like they had to go through some scary moments growing up in that area.
which all three children attended and where, Clara reports, you can feel quivers of anxiety, as kids compete for the highest SAT scores and spots at Harvard, Stanford, and NYU.
This is pretty impressive that the kids are competing for these quality of schools.
because it's a safe area."
It is always great for kids to grow up in a safe area because of how much more things they have to do such as play outside.
Today they live in a large ranch-style house on a peaceful cul-de-sac and are well integrated into the Orange County middle class.
pretty cool and sounds like this family worked hard to achieve what is considered the "American Dream
Students at Santa Ana are four times more likely than students at Troy to drop out, roughly ten rimes more likely to be truant or suspended, and only one third as likely to take the SAT. I
The students at Troy seem to be better students and have better scores on tests as well.
Santa Ana students are overwhelmingly poor and Latino and heavily Spanish-speaking, whereas Troy students come from ethnically diverse,
the santa ana and troy high school students are much different financially
In north Fullerton, the home of Cal State Fullerton, where the median household income was roughly $100,000 in 2012, the percentage of Latinos more than doubled from about 10 percent to 25 percent.
It is good that the diversity has gone up in cities like fullerton
Since 1970 the population of Orange County has more than doubled to over 3 million people
That is a ton of people for right over 50 years ago.
That image has, however, been gradually altered by large-scale de-mographic changes over the last 40 years.
the large scale demographic changes altered that image of large amounts of people in LA and San Diego with a lot moving to Orange County
These students go to the same school, yet there is still a big separation between the two, simply because of the background they come from.
There is no evidence of a conspiracy to favor affluent students and hold back poor stu<lents of color. However, the structure of the school is implicated in the stark patterns of inequality that arc reproduced year after year-structures that appear neutral on the surface but actually reinforce unequal outcomes
reading this puts into perspective on how schools really do need to make a change/reform. If there is one group of kids that have the ultimate advantage, there needs to be a change to where all kids have the same opportunities and ultimate fairness.
We examine how these struc-tures shape and influence the academic outcomes of students. As we will show, these seemingly neutral aspects of the school structure chat coo often are taken for granted play a central role in reproduc-ing patterns of success and failure and, by extension, in reproducing inequality and privilege
I could see how these procedures are shaping a pattern of inequality and privilege, because if not everyone is treated the same and has the same things going on, it is going to be unequal and unfair.
I agree that poor nutrition really can affect the way that students are learning because the way that you fuel your body to learn and have energy throughout the day has an impact on the focus and concentration of the body.
The study first assessed the children shortly after they began kinder-garten, providing a picture of their skills at the starting line of their for-mal schooling. It shows that children from families in the top 20 percent of the income distribution already outscore children from the bottom 20 percent by 106 points in early literacy. This difference is nearly twice the size of the gap between the average reading skills of white and both black and Hispanic children at that age, and nearly equal to the amount that the typical child learns during kindergarten. Moreover, the reading gap was even larger when the same children were tes
It is pretty interesting how these studies and stats are real. We need to do all we can to correct these things going on in schools currently so that there can be more opportunity.
With an income of more than $300,000, Alexander's family was able to spend far more money on Alexander's education, lessons, and other enrichment activities than Anthony's parents could devote to their son's needs. Both of Alexander's parents had professional degrees, so they knew all about what Alexander needed to do to prepare himself for college. An-thony's mother completed some classes after graduating from high school, but his father, a high school dropout, struggled even to read. And in con-trast to Anthony, Alexander lived with both of his parents, which not only added to family income but also increased the amount of time available for a parent to spend with Alexander. 23
Alexander is very fortunate to have a good set of parents with enough money to be able to afford the education that he will receive after high school, and this will be good for him to prepare for college.
Many professors have con-veyed to me their feeling that the classroom should be a "safe" place; that usual
I agree that the classroom should be a "safe space" the classroom is where students should have the opportunity to learn, and that's all that should be going on.
gmficant an bl k hildren were forced to attend schools where we when ac e . rded as obiects and nat subJect
it is good knowing we have came a long way, but there is a lot more progress that can be done. reminding ourselves how far we have came is good for the hope that we can eventually be great.
Arnong educators there has to be an acknowledgment that any effort to transform institutions so that they reflect a multi-cultural standpoint must take inta consideration the t'cars teachers have when asked to shift their paradigms
It would be difficult for a teacher to just go ahead and switch around the way that they teach, but we need to put into consideration the benefits this major change could have on students.
we must acknowledge that our styles of teaching may need to change.
I believe one way we can help this problem out is the teachers of the students. If the teacher understands that students backround and culture, it will be easier for the student to learn.
Teaching in a Multicultural World
Teaching in a multicultural world is different because people learn in different ways. When there is a classroom of 30 different people, sometimes only 5 people really understand what is going on, and the other 25 just are confused.
What are the factors that affect poor children before they are even born? F
It is pretty crazy that the amount of money your family has can affect you before you are born because being born into wealth has such a big advantage and it is hard to be born into poverty.
-y way o m entance real estate, or a_cc~mulated class capital and wealth-afford a better home in ~ better school d,stn~t, Y0_u will therefore receive a predictably better education
Right here it is saying that if you can afford to live in a better place with a better school district, you are getting a better education than the schools that are maybe in not as good of a district.
Right here I believe it is saying that even though public school is free, that people with more money are going to still have more opportunities than the people who don't come from as much money.
For years I have been floored by the number of candidates who believe not only that public education is the great equalizer but also that children and families who remain poor are to blame for not exploiting such a freely available opportunity to improve their lots.
I agree with what he is saying here. Public education is a huge opportunity people have been given, and it is about the most equal things can get. If you are given a free education and a chance to get a degree to get a job, but still remain poor, it is not the equality to blame.
THE GREAT EQUALIZE
The equalizer is an important thing in todays society because it insures equality for all. There are a lot of different definitions of it and different ways of using equalizer though, but I think this one will be about equality in schools.
In the dream, failure results from lack of individual merit and effort; in reality, failure in school too closely tracks structures of racial and class inequality. Schools too often reinforce rather than contend against the intergenerational paradox at the heart of the American dream.
Things can be given to you and you can have opportunities, but without the individual goal to succeed and use the opportunities gifted to you, it will be hard to achieve the goals people have for you.
School finance reform broadens schooling opportunities for poor children with-out harming those who are better off, but equity in funding has depended mostly on the intervention of the courts
These schooling opportunities for poor children are very important because it really helps those who don't come from much. Having a free/ cheaper education is a big deal because you can achieve the American Dream just by getting a degree and going to get a job.
ecause most Americans now believe that the American dream should be available to all American citizens, public schools in the United States have made real progress toward enabling everyone to pursue success as they understand it.
It is good that the American Dream is possible for so many more people than it was decades ago. Every citizen should have the opportunity to have success and it should be equal for everybody no matter what.
It encourages each person who lives in the United States to pursue success, and it cre-ates the framework within which everyone can do it.
This paragraph is talking about the American Dream. The American dream is important because it helps every American have passion and strive to be successful and provide a good life for their family. The American Dream is a very important thing we live by today.
is challenged by high standards
In this introduction, President George Bush talks on the high standards our country needs to have in its education system. To build a culture of achievement, and to succeed the aspirations of our country, we need to take upon the opportunity that is given.