1.) If people of color have been deneid opportunity because of their race , then why is it so hard to understand the validity of remedying that denial , and its modern day effects, by also making reference to their race? after all , THAT was the source of the injury , so why shouldnt it also be the source of the solution?
- I think this is an important part of the article to think about and have a discuss because its stating that the very thing that caused this injury to occur , worsen and deepen , is also the solution. We should make reference to their race and aknowledge their race and upbringing as we would aknowledge that a white person's race and upbringing . By making a reference to it, we're letting it be known that whether you are black, white, purple, brown, orange or green you are still noticed and you are still important part of the society. We're letting it be known that whether you are white, black, purple or red that you exist here with the rest of us.
2.) Research suggests, that being taught by highly qualified teachers is one of the most important factors in school achievement.:
- This is basically screaming out Culture of power and Delpit 's article. Its culture of Power and relates to Delpits article because Delpit talks about how students achieve more when a certain culture of power is in charge or is teaching in schools. And if a white teacher is teaching a classroom of primarily white and a few black students. the black students are going to not achieve as well as the white students are going to achieve because they are not used to or understand the way the white teacher teachers and handles the classroom community.
3. "White students are twice as likely as their African American or Latino counterparts to be taught by the most highly qualified teachers and half as likley to have the least qualified instructors in class"
- I find this very true and worth talking about because the fact that African American and Latino students are taught by less qualified instructors in a class is supporting why African american and latino students tend to have more of a challenge with their education . If they were given the same equal opportunity to have the best of the best teachers , this problem wouldnt exist Or it would be less of an issue.
-Overall i think this article presented many important pieces of statistics. The statisitcs are worth your time and they dont really suprise me that much.
I really like your first quote on race. As we've learned, race isn't a biological factor, but rather one constructed socially. It is what we see in one and under first. This is the problem. We learn over and over again that you cannot judge a book by its cover yet with so much information to process, our minds simply end up create classifications and schemas. A person's book cover is their skin, hair, and bone- their race. Until each one of us has met enough other books to learn the stories behind the covers, we need to have systems in place to make sure some "covers" don't get marginalized. Many of our classmates admit again and again that they come from an envirnoment where they were primarily exposed to just one culture, I haven't heard one person yet consider that perhaps that has caused them to be narrow minded. It happens, especially in those circumstances where you can operate with the assumption that all of those around you are like you. Our world still judges others (and I believe always will) and we constantly have to set up systems to safegaurd against systematic marginalization. One day black people in America will be where they need to be and we will have to keep Germans from being the victims of prejudice- or Algerians, or South Africans, or people who practice witch craft. No matter what, we need to protect peopple from living in a world that provides them with less opportunity than their neighbors.
ReplyDeleteI really like your third quote and I agree with you. If White people are the race that is getting all the better stuff, then how does America expect that minorities will better themselves? On the other hand I did not like this quote because it is desecrating those teachers who teach the minority group. Overall, I think a teacher is a teacher.
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