tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85173852870814739932024-03-13T20:43:04.421-07:00Foundations of Education 346Katherine Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00686343483270853589noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517385287081473993.post-39298898103984776162016-04-25T17:43:00.004-07:002016-04-25T17:43:18.179-07:00My Pecha Kucha <a href="https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1S1uF6C8DtCY72YASl5-Axp2Bypit2PecSwKL9YJLPoY/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=20000" target="_blank">Presentation </a>Katherine Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00686343483270853589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517385287081473993.post-37817637256677909252016-04-23T13:04:00.002-07:002016-04-23T13:19:05.365-07:00Social Justice Event <div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.ric.edu/news/details.php?News_ID=3026" target="_blank">Classism- America's Great Divide</a> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Speech Given By: Barbara Jensen </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Date: March 16th, 2016 </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Location: Alger 110 </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A few weeks back , I attending a public speaker at Rhode Island College for my social justice event. Her name is Barbara Jensen. <a href="http://www.barbarajensen.net/about.html" target="_blank">Barbara</a> has been teaching and talking about classism for many many years now. She taught this topic in universities and is very passionate about it. The overall topic of her studies is the working class studies in the United States. She travels all around and speaks to groups of people to help everyone get more informed. She is also a licensed community and counseling psychologist. She's had practice for over 25 years and even has her own private counseling office. There, she works with individuals, couples, families and takes on some community projects. Her therapies include<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=psychodynamic&oq=psychodynamic&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.362j1j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8" target="_blank"> psychodynamic</a>, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, as well as art, music and drama. After hearing her speak in person, she is very moving and that material she brings up is very true. It made the whole presentation a good and interesting to listen to.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Within the first couple minutes of her presentation, she asks for ten volunteers. Once she had all the volunteers up at the front of the room, they each had a seat in one of the seats that were lined up against the wall. In this visual approach to help us understand better, each chair represented 10% of the United States population. After statistical facts, she asked 9 of the volunteers(starting from the left) to all go and fit on the first 3 chairs starting from the left. Interesting to watch because here there was, 9 grown college students sitting on each other to all fit on 3 chairs. For the student on the furthest right chair , so the 10th chair, he was asked to spread out to cover 7 chairs. He could lay, sit, put pieces over the chair to claim that it was it. He just had to someway or another cover the chairs. This activity was to show how the top 10% of the United States population own more than 70% of the entire wealth in the US. Having that cover 70% of the wealth, that means there is only 30% of wealth in the US left and that is to be spread among the 90% of the population. That means, "Moreover, of the top 10 percent, one percent own more wealth than the bottom 90 percent combined."(Barbara Jensen) That's absolutely crazy to me. That numbers are so off. I was shocked by these numbers even though I already knew that there is obviously people who are extremely wealthy out there. I guess I just didn't think 10% really own that much wealth. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">All written by Barbara Jensen. </span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">(1)Forms of Classism </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><b>* </b>Solipsism ("blinders")</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">* Judgements of "taste"("good taste" or "bad")</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">* Cruelty (intentionally insulting or hurting others)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">*Systemic advantages and disadvantages </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">(constraint and submission vs blossoming and "becoming")</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">(2)Distance, Resistance, and Creation </span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">Responses of working class students to the cultural conflicts schools may create.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">*Keep your people<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">*Get respect for defiance<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">*Help others bridge
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">No "best" option without fundamental changes in social and economic organization of society. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>(3) Divisions in the Working Class:</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>"Settled Living " & "Hard Living"
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">Settled Living <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">More likely called "middle class"(and not t</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">hink of self that way),
but considered not ambitious or smart enough to really "make it”.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">More likely called “poor”, “underclass”, “welfare queens”,
“riff-raff”, or “gangsters”. (though statistics show they are likely to work
when they can)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">Middle class sees them as: boring, uncultured, and
unenlightened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">Middle class sees them as: alternately frightening and
alien or pathetic, even comically so. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">Either try to fit in or be defiant.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">Can’t fit in: be defiant or shameful.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">Stereotype is that they are white skinned (reality is
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">Stereotype is that they are people of color (reality is
both).<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">More likely to be against welfare (more so than middle
class): it’s too close to home)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">More likely to have received welfare-currently losing that
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">More likely, in hard times, to be able to borrow money,
cars from family and friends.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">More likely to have friends and family also in hard times,
still share generously. </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><u>Similarities </u></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">* Value belonging/connection over individuality.</span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Value connection and interdependence over competition. </span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Looked down upon by the middle class.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Regarded by "higher" classes as lazy, stupid, crappy parents, "low" life, "nobodies".</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Get blamed personally for their "lower" status. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Invisible (to other classes, sometimes themselves as well) as they really are.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Get seen as stereotypes -- become psychological "projections" of "higher" classes. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Use non-standard English, learn this as children is "normal". </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*In speech tend toward personal narrative rather than producing abstract answers, conceptualizations, questions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Likely (esp. adolescents) to get admiration form peers for defiance against middle class teachers and other authorities. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Likely to embarrass parents with same.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">*Values: generosity (as opposed to brilliance), being "kind-hearted" (as opposed to ambitious), being "good"(as opposed to "successful"). </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times new roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>(4) Gifts to Human Ability from Either Side of the Class Border</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">This presentation I went to really made me think if I am able to notice the different levels of class in my day to day life. I wouldn't say that it stands right out to me but I understand the concept a little more so I notice more. Jensen spent time talking about what different classes looked like and she used a personal story to explain it. She told the story about how she went to two different, I can't remember if it was communion or confirmation party, but she went to one that was for a child in a higher income home and then went to one for a family member which was a working class one. She talked about the differences but was also able to talk about even though she knew she fit to one class more then the other, she knew how to act like she belonged to both. The party environment was different when it came down to the kind of conversation, what everyone was wearing, what kind of food was being offered, the way everyone talked, the kind of activities that were going on for the guest and how differently the party meant to each child. I enjoyed hearing these stories because I was able to say, oh yea I can see that and relate. I can really relate to this with my family vs my boyfriend's family. Obviously there's nothing wrong with each family, there are just significant differences. With my family, we had parties and get togethers just for the fun of it. At the parties, we have the big thing of juice, a cooler of soda, a cooler of beer, the kind of food you make on the grill like cheeseburgers, hotdogs and things like that. We dress however we want to and no one is really expected to look nice nice. We are so loud and we play the most random music and we just kind of yell , dance and get get along really nice. I see the difference when I go to a get together at my boyfriends house because right off the back, I know if I show up in yoga pants and a sweatshirt I would feel out of the loop. I'll usually put on jeans and a nice shirt but most of the time I still feel underdressed. I wouldn't say I see a huge difference with the kind of food and drinks that they would have but I see difference when I think about how the noise level is different. At his house, everyone will be kind of in little groups, at their own tables and just conversing with a couple people at a time. I guess it's almost like everything is organized and I'm not really use to that. Both types of parties are fun, just are different types of parties/ get togethers that better fit with people. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman";">Things Barbara Jensen talked about related right back to our class and I found it interesting. Jensen talked about how in our society it really does matter where you come from/who you are surrounded by. We're judged by stereotypes an</span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">d because maybe your parents didn't do anything extra important, there's no hope for you because it's all a cycle. That's the big problem cause theses classism groups.</span></span></span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"> When we read </span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">Kozol,</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"> we talk about the cycle and the likely hood of one getting breaking out from the cycle. Yes it's possible but the chances are slim. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="color: #0b5394; white-space: pre-wrap;">Working class parents who work working class jobs will have working class kids who will have working class kind of jobs and then have kids who do the same thing. Same thing goes for other social classes. It's like a never ending them and this relates to what Jensen says because that is the restriction that is put on people. The get stereotyped by their past and family, but that doesn't need to label them for what they will accomplish in the future. This can also relate to a quote from </span><span style="color: #660000; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nicholas Kristof's</span><span style="color: #0b5394; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><i style="color: #0b5394; white-space: pre-wrap;">U.S.A., A Land of Limitations, " </i><span style="color: #0b5394; white-space: pre-wrap;">The chance of a person who was born to a family in the bottom 10 percent of the income distribution rising to the top 10 percent as an adult is about the same as the chance that a dad who is 5 feet 6 inches tall having a son who grows up to be over 6 feet 1 inch tall, It happens, but not often." These restrictions are put on everyone in society everyday and that helps from the division between classes. From on of Jensen's handouts that she gave at the entrance of this presentation, she gives one out that explains the differences from settled living and hard living. (In Above, Green Text) One of the bullet points says the it is a stereotype that people of color always have to fall into the hard living category. I though </span><span style="color: #660000; white-space: pre-wrap;">SCWAAMP </span><span style="color: #0b5394; white-space: pre-wrap;">at this because the W means whiteness and stands for how much we value it. If people of color were valued more in the U.S., they wouldn't always fit into the hard living category. It's the stereotypes and restrictions put on by society. This can also relate to </span><span style="color: #660000; white-space: pre-wrap;">McIntosh</span><span style="color: #0b5394;"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> because McIntosh says that there's privilege that white people have and I think this relates because they have to power to speak up and change classism but don't because they either don't want to or don't realize the power/ privilege they have.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">For me, this reading wasn't what I would call hard, it kind of wrapped everything together for me. During this semester, we've learned so much about how our society is and throughout this time, we've really had to think about our experiences and if they fit what we're now seeing as the issues within the school system. During this piece, Shor continues to talk about how education is politics. I was able to connect this piece and things Shor was addressing to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0ZXdvUDB5X3lDVDg/view" target="_blank">Delpit</a>. Delpit talks about how when you know the rules and codes of power, you are more likely to succeed because you were told explicitly the rules. More towards the begining of Shor's piece, he mentions a lot about how teachers in the classroom need to work on having that kind of good relationship with their students and also be able to be there and tell them things that they might not being talking about at home. The students need to learn the rules and codes of power where the teachers need to learn how to follow them. In order to succeed, you're better off knowing a head of time what is expected from you. It will help you get farther and help you succeed. By knowing these rules and codes, you then know what to do. A Delpit lightbulb also went off in my head when I read these sentences. "The syllabus deployed by the teacher gives students a prolonged encounter with structural knowledge and social authority. However, it is the students who decide to what extent they will take part in the syllabus and allow it to form them." (Page 14) I'm not sure if I understood it wrong or not but this made me think of those first couple of days of school where teachers are giving our their syllabus. Some people choose to go by, and some people ignore it and hope to get by. Knowing the rules and codes of power I guess helps you in this situation. It's an option to follow it but you know you will do it because that's what we've been taught and we know it's the rules and the way to succeed. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">I was also about to connect this piece to <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-JcBFAuLc-0SVJiRmNrcllrRlU/view" target="_blank">August </a>and safe spaces. School shouldn't be a place where students go and feel uncomfortable. They should want to go and learn and be excited about it. On page 17 Shor says, "Participation is the most important place to begin because student involvement is low in traditional classrooms and because action is essential to gain knowledge and develop intelligence." Basically, he is saying that students get more in the classrooms and they are interacting with the other students and not just sitting and listening. I disagree with this because I went all through my school years also sitting and listening. I rarely talked and if I did it was because I was forced to by the teachers. If the teacher used it against my grade of course I started talking but if not, I would sit and do my work a lone and just listen to my other classmates if I got stuck. When I knew I had to speak up, it always made me nervous and made my experience at school in that classroom terrible. I guess it wasn't that safe space that it should have been in terms of not feeling comfortable. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">"School funding is another political dimension of education, because more money has always been invested in the education of upper-class children and elite collegians than has been spent on students from lower-income homes and in community colleges." (Page 15)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Volunteering at the school I do now, I can see where they run into issues with funding. They don't get enough and the students really do suffer from it. When I was in Elementary School, our desks were set up in groups of 4 and at each group there was a bin that was in the middle that had pencils, crayons, rulers and just little things that we might need. We never had the problem as simple as coming to school without anything to write with. When I work with this group of kids, every time I am there at least one of them tells me that they don't have a pencil or anything to write with. Now we have to waste more time trying to find one and that children and the rest of the other have to miss out on learning. The funding is that little in schools like that they can't supply any extra but they simply don't have it to spend. The money has to go somewhere else because it's the smarter way to use it. The lack of school funding just really messes with children's education. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06;">Comparing my school and the one I go to for my service learning, it amazes me the differences. From things like funding all the way to being able to voice your opinion. At my service learning, I don't notice children really talking out and being a part of a bigger discussion as a class. In all my classes growing up, everyone was able to speak out if they wanted to and that's how a lot of the classes ran. Being use to that all my life even though I never participated in the discussion and then going to see things were students just don't speak out like that makes me think how they are learning anything. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Ana Malaniuk is a 6 years old girl who has down syndrome. A few years back, she had a dance studio turn her away because they said she couldn't keep up and wasn't up to their "standards". Her mom then got her into a dance studio that welcomed her and enjoyed working with her. </span></div>
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Katherine Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00686343483270853589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517385287081473993.post-90295370495481206952016-04-10T10:14:00.001-07:002016-04-11T07:12:39.653-07:00Reconceptualizing Down Syndrome <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #274e13;">This reading was a little bit of a harder read for me and I had to go to other blogs to try and get a better understanding. Until I hit the parts of the writing that were more telling stories, I was lost. The stories did help but I still feel that I don't have a really good understanding. I also didn't get the chance to print this article out so I think having to read this one from this computer screen didn't help. What I did get from reading is that children with down syndrome and also other disabilities, are getting looked down on because people think they are not capable compared to any other child. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">I thought to include this quote because I think it is important to realize the labels. Labels are put are kids with down syndrome and there is no need to put labels on them. We are all the same. Within the school system, it's not that some are just not able to learn, it's the fact that all students can learn and succeed but not on the same day or by the same way. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">The quote comes from the section in which Isaac Johnson was basically being tested on his skills and ability to sort the spoons and the blocks. In this situation, he wasn't given credit because he did it differently. I think it is important to realize and understand that everyone learns and shows how they learn differently. No one should be treated differently because no matter what, no one should tell them there are not capable of doing anything. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">Labels, Labels, Labels. That's just the big problem. People think that these labels entitle them to certain things and abilities and they don't. When a person has any kind of disorder, the problem isn't with them themselves. It's how the community thinks and how they put restrictions on what they can do. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">This piece connects right to August's piece about safe spaces. Children in the school system are not getting the right education because teachers either don't know how to teach them or just don't understand how they learn. School should be a safe place for anyone to go to especially children with disabilities so they feel comfortable to be there. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #274e13;">In order to create these safe places, I think it's important to then have educators go to talks, or just trainings so they better understand. Instead of turning on a child because you don't know how to work with them, they will be more comfortable and help.</span></div>
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Katherine Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00686343483270853589noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517385287081473993.post-61320763128322606062016-03-26T21:31:00.000-07:002016-03-26T21:31:27.970-07:00Connection<div style="text-align: center;">
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For this blog, i'm choosing to connect ideas that Patrick Finn expressed with ideas and beliefs of Lisa Delpit. In Finn's writing, he expressed how their are different teaching styles. The way you talk to your students and how you go about teaching them, play a huge role in their ability to learn. As you teach all different kinds of students, you see a difference and that all goes back to class, the society we live in and the stereotypes we have on certain groups of people. There was a section that I came across in Finn's writing that immediately made me connect to Delpit.</div>
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<i>"When I discussed discipline problems with other teachers, a frequent topic of discussion in the teacher's lounge. I would talk about my teaching methods as methods of control. I had work assignments on the board when the students entered the classroom, and so there wasn't a moment when they didn't have anything to do. I didn't say to an <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=errant%20definition" target="_blank">errant</a> student, "What are you doing?" I said, "Stop that and get to work." No discussion. No openings for an argument." (Finn, 3-4) </i></div>
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I was able to right away connect this to Delpit because this is all about the culture of power and being told explicitly the rules of being in that classroom. I think this example relates to Delpit's fourth aspect of power the most. "If you are not already a participant in the culture of power, being told explicitly the rules of that culture makes acquiring power easier." (Delpit 25) In other words, Delpit is saying that if your are not in the "power" group, it is easier to survive and "fit it"/ get by easier if you are being told the rules in all detail. How else would they know? Everyone comes from different homes and discipline comes in all different ways. One child might listen to something an adult says while it just flies over the other child's head. It's all about where they come from, how they were brought up and also, how their parents choose to show control in their own households. This also connects to Delpit's other example of the child having to take a bath. One parent approaches the issue with, " Isn't it time for a bath?" and another parent would say, "Get your rusty behind in that tub." (Delpit 34) Both parents are saying that their child needs to take a bath, but they say it in different ways because children see power in different forms. </div>
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Connecting back to the quote from Finn, in his experience he didn't give any room for a child to get out of control and misbehave. Having that assignment on the board, gave all the children something to do. They know to come in class and get right to that assignment because that's the kind of power he had in his room. " Stop that and get to work", is his way of making sure every child understands it the same way. Whether each student sees control and power different, he created his power in the classroom in a way that everyone will understand who has the control. </div>
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** This quote is important and I think it will bring up discussion because it's almost like saying it's just an up hill battle. It's not going to go anywhere and the problem will always be there. In this case, the fact that stereotypes are still being supported by people's actions make it harder to go away. </div>
Katherine Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00686343483270853589noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517385287081473993.post-54243920134734376802016-03-20T18:48:00.003-07:002016-03-20T18:51:20.342-07:00The Problem We All Live With <div begin="00:00:58.60" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #5a5a5a; font-family: georgia; font-size: 14.85px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="line-height: 20px;">These readings were really interesting to me. I wasn't really excited to have to listen to an audio version of a reading, but I really did enjoy it. What shocked me a lot was how recent this is. Both talks were released late last year. July of 2015. The issue of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_segregation" style="color: #ba005e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">segregation</a> and <a href="http://www.dictionary.com/browse/integration" style="color: #ba005e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">integration</a> are still a huge one and it's clear that it is going to take a very, very long time to clear up. For this week's post, I wanted to do a hyperlinked based one. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><i style="line-height: 20px;"><a href="http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/transcript" style="color: #ba005e; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">562: The Problem We All Live With </a></i><br /><span style="line-height: 20px;"> In this reading, Nikole-Hannah Jones tells a story of the struggle this particular student went through in the Normandy School District in Missouri. Nikole- Hannah Jones interviewed a student, Mah'ria Martin and her mother, Nedra Martin. Mah'ria went to grade school within the Normandy district for awhile with the school only having one accreditation. When the Missouri State Board of Education pulled all accreditation from Mah'ria's school, they were left with absolutely no accreditations after 15 years of probation. This is where the transfer law kicked in. This law give students that are in an unaccredited school to be able to go to a nearby school for free that does have accreditation. There was a meeting held at the school , Francis Howell , where parents, teachers, students etc. came so they can discuss as a school the changes that would be happening in their school. Students that were attending Normandy had the opportunity to transfer to a "better" school if they wanted to. In Mah'ria's case, she wanted to go to Francis Howell. Francis Howell was a school full of white students and had little to non people of color. At the meeting I mentioned before, parents spoke out and said very rude things. Asking that if these kids from Normandy come,they want metal detectors because apparently these kids were going to be extremely violent. They made comments that I found mean and rude regarding if their children's scores were going to be brought down. They even suggested ways so that these students wouldn't want to attend Francis Howell such as making the school day start earlier so it would be more of a struggle for them to travel. The comments these parents made were surrounding the fact that having Normandy kids come into their school would ruin the school as a whole. Mah'ria wanted to speak up for herself but couldn't get herself to do it because while she was walking up to the microphone, she heard the hurtful things those parents continued to say and agree on. When she started her new school, she was scared of walking in on the first day because she thought it was going to be just as bad as it was at the meeting. Fortunately, things were great on the first day for her. People greeted her in a nice way and she was even able to make a friend. Things changed when her old school, Normandy got the new title of being a non-accredited school. This put them in a whole different category so this meant that all the kids that left when they had the chance to, now had to come back. Nedra Martin found herself struggling once again to get her daughter in a better school. Finally after trying and trying, she got a judge to side with her. Mah'ria got to transfer back to Francis Howell. That was mostly the main points of this certain talk and I liked it because it shows the different views on this matter. As a reader, I was able to pick up on the real issues with segregation in schools and how it affects a students ability to learn. </span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: "georgia";"><span style="line-height: 20px;">In this reading, we get to hear from Chana Joffe-walt about how other people approach this issue. Chana talks about how she knew a young lady Kiana Jackson and how she approached integration with a more positive attitude. Kiana is a person of color and she loves interacting and communication with white people because she liked experiencing something different. This is a different look because usually when students notice skin color differences, they stick to their own color when communicating. Kiana even went to a college where she knew there would be a lot of white people because she says it is important that people step out their comfort zones and experience different things. Along with Kiana as an example, Chana talks about John Brittain and his role in the steps to integration. He fought and fought and was about to create Magnet Schools that allowed all different races to come together in a school so they could learn more/better. More and more people signed up their children in these kinds of schools and notice a huge difference. They also came to conclusions that it wasn't a terrible thing to be integrated. She gave an example of a couple, Ryan and Sarah Welcome who had a more negative view on enrolling their children in Magnet Schools. After visiting and seeing for themselves that these schools are a huge tool, they were able to have a more open mind. I think this reading is a good way to show people the benefits of integrated schools. A lot of people get scared of violence, different levels of learning and things like that but I think this is a great way to give everyone the same opportunities. </span></span></span></div>
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Automatically I can relate this to SCWAAMP. W stands for whiteness in this activity. All these issues revolve around how much we value whiteness in this country. It's easier to go to school and get an education if you're white. It's easier to get a job if you're not a person of color. A lot of people have their stereotypical ways of thinking of people of color and that makes it harder harder to feel equal to white people. </div>
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Why must it be so hard to view everyone as equal. We are all capable of the same things but still, I think stereotypes really stick with people. Sometimes no matter how hard you try, not everyone can look past the skin color someone might have. I don't believe that one race is better than the other. Everyone should get an equal and fair opportunity at anything they want to do.</div>
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I think this is saying that everyone goes to school, but if you go to a lower end school, you're not getting anywhere near the same education as someone else who goes to a higher end school. Everyone should have equal opportunities so when they go out into the real world after school, they all have a fair shot. </div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-style: italic;"> </span><span style="color: #351c75;">For this week's blog, I choose to write a response with Kate's blog as the focus because I think she did a good job at explaining and getting right to the main points. Kate explained in her post how the main concept of this piece was to show the different ways service learning effects the children, teachers and the volunteers involved. She goes on to then explain the two different learning cases that were talked about. Mr. Johnson's project was set for students as individuals to go out and help different groups of people. On the other hand, Ms. Adam's worked with her students as a whole to raise money and from there they worked with a specific group. I agree with what Kate said next and that was, "</span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "coming soon"; line-height: 20.79px;"><span style="color: #351c75;"><i>The students in Mr. Johnson's class I think they really benefitted from the experience. This type of work helps students explore different types of careers and experience all different life styles; while also helping out those in need. Ms. Adam's class however I think is creating more of a difference towards those who need help."</i>(Kate Gould) These two projects are really alike in some ways but then again have differences. For Mr. Johnson's project, they were able to experience and benefit more because of what they were exposed to. They were able to see different kinds of life styles that were still in need but maybe not too much in need compared to the people Ms.Adam's class worked with. Ms.Adam's class focused on more of the homeless and helped with their shelters. Both projects helped a variety of different people in their situations but in different ways through their services. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #351c75;">I think it is important to talk about how much service learning can benefit people and people who choose to volunteer their time,should take it serious. If there is someone who does volunteer their time and goes into a school for example to work with children, they should want to be there. They need to see the value of their time there. If you go just to go, can you really say you made a difference for those children? Did you help them learn? Do they enjoy you being there? And mostly, do they feel good about the time they have spent there?</span></div>
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Katherine Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00686343483270853589noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517385287081473993.post-56591184630323970672016-02-28T15:25:00.000-08:002016-02-28T15:29:13.935-08:00Who Cares What Makes Everyone Else Happy, Who Makes You Happy?<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">Schools should be a place where children and young adults go and know that there's a purpose for them there and are not being singled out for being "different". I put different in quotation marks because that word is used a lot by people who feel as if people who are gay, lesbian, transgender etc., are different then people who are straight. The article expresses a lot how hard it is for children to feel safe at school because even some teachers, along with other classmates are picking on them and not allowing them to be themselves. Teachers choose not to express different family style units because they feel that children shouldn't be expose to anything other then a man and woman relationship. The idea is put in people's head that those relationships are wrong but they're not. People are people and they should be able to express who they are and who they are interested in without feeling like they don't belong. Kids go to school and express there time there to be unsafe. They get bullied for being who they are and that's wrong. No one goes around picking on someone who is in a straight relationship because that is the "normal" relationship style. In the media, most relationships are between a man and a women and there were very few situations where a different family unit is expressed. Over time, things have changed but still not enough. There are still kids who go to school scared of what his peers will say or do. For some, it's even the teachers who are putting them in such situations. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">August expresses a lot that things in the schools need to change. This is where the change will begin. A lot of the time the bullies in the situations are the kids who have never been introduced to any other family unit and that is why the sight of seeing two people of the same gender together is odd to them. They've grown up seeing a man and a woman together as normal so of course they are going to pick on something that they see as not normal. I think the ideas of changing the way the lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender youth is looked at would be useful. From a young age, children should be expose to families with two females as the role of parents and also two males as parents. To take a quote directly from the text, "<i>As the issues become commonplace in the classroom, students may be better prepared to </i></span><i><b><span style="color: #351c75;">accept, support, </span></b><span style="color: #674ea7;">and </span><b><span style="color: #351c75;">appreciate </span></b></i><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>gays, lesbians and bisexuals out of the classroom as well."</i>(August Page 92) It is because we are not expose to it at a young age, it is harder to accept, support and appreciate LGBT youth and adults. The issue came up a lot that the school felt that it just wasn't their place to expose other children to it. I do see where that is coming from but on the other hand I also see it as, everyone gets exposed to it sooner or later so why does it matter if they get exposed to something outside their normal a little sooner?</span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">As a kid, I was never expose to anything like that. Not in TV shows, books, magazines and definitely not through conversations with my parents and family. There is not a single couple in my family that is not between a man and a woman. My family has always had a strong opinion on this issue and they have always made it clear to us that a marriage should only be between a male and a female. So with having that basically drilled into my head, it was strange to see couples who weren't like that. When I got a job and went to High School, I definitely saw more of how other people can be happy. I'm not going to lie, it was weird to me at first but over time it definitely became just another normal to me. Having such a strong opinion coming from my parents I did face hard things with my friends. My best friend for example is bisexual. She hid it from me for so long because she knew how I was raised and my opinion on the topic. When she finally came out to me I was lost for words. At this time, she was just telling me that she was talking to a girl and probably was going to start dating her. After fights and long periods of not talking, I aloud myself to see from a different point of view. I had to realize that she was happy even if she was with a girl instead of a guy. It took awhile and I know I said some terrible things over the time to her, but we got through it. Every one is entitled to their own opinion but I think it is important that I was able to see that I was wrong in this situation because it was unfair to her. She didn't feel that she could be herself around me but now she can and our friendship is closer than ever because I am able to accept her for who she is. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #674ea7;">I</span><span style="color: #38761d;"> choose to include this video because it just a good video that expresses happiest can be found with everyone no matter who they want to be with. People who are with the same sex and feel like they are different are expressed through this. They should be happy everyday and should be comfortable and proud to be who they are. These people in this video talk about how scared and nervous they are to be coming out and I see that as sad because for a straight person, we don't feel scared or nervous to talk about who we are interested in. They have to face this and struggle everyday with the way people talk to them and treat them. This was just another eye opener for me because there's really nothing different about the people in this video. These labels mean nothing and we are all the same. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d;">I watch Ellen a lot and I remembering watching this video and it's really important in my opinion. All this student wanted was to go to Prom like everyone else in her school with the person she wanted to go with. It's because she wanted to go with her girlfriend that things got hard for her. She was told by her principal that it just wasn't allowed. To avoid her showing up with her girlfriend, the principal decided to just cancel Prom all together. Almost everyone looks forward to their prom, especially girls and now she wasn't able to go like she always planned because there was being rules put in place for her that restricted her to go with her girlfriend and have fun like everyone else. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple;">Automatically I related this to our SCWAAMP activity. The S stands for straightness and how much we value it. People who are gay, lesbian, transgender, bisexual, etc are only facing these issues because of how much straightness is valued in our society. It's not likely to see a gay couple on the front cover of a magazine. It's not likely to see a lesbian couple be aired on TV. Yes, there are cases where it happens but if you hold it in comparison to how much a straight couple is in the media, there's a huge difference. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">This topic really just bothers me because we are not exposed to it nearly enough and that is why this problem occurs. How can everyone accept, appreciate and support something that they know nothing about. In my High School, I remember only seeing one poster in my spanish class that talked about gay, lesbian , bisexual etc. relationships and it stood out to me. It stood out because It was one of the only ones up in the school. People just associated the teacher with maybe being gay because she had the poster up. I find that wrong because all she was doing was trying to bring the topic up in the classroom so people are comfortable. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">There's so much that just keeps coming to my head about this topic but another thing that I find important is just how people are able to throw around this words but either don't even know what they mean or are just not even using them right. People are just blurting things out, not thinking it is effecting anyone, but what they are really doing is bullying because words really do hurt. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #351c75;">Another link to just add is a link I found that talks about things <a href="http://www.pflagnyc.org/safeschools/statistics">everyone should know.</a> These situations are sad and I think everyone needs to be more aware, and open-minded so everyone can just feel happy and safe no matter where they are. </span></div>
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Katherine Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00686343483270853589noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517385287081473993.post-33028343215956698312016-02-20T20:58:00.001-08:002016-02-20T20:58:23.748-08:00Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us <div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This article really opened my eyes to these issues that are exposed to us since as young as we remember. A lot of the sexism and racism that was talked about in this related back to Walt Disney. It's crazy to actually think about and realize that movies and cartoons that we always saw as normal, really have underlining issues that are not clearly shown on the surface. This whole piece talks about these myths that are within the story lines that are going right over our heads. A lot of them shocked me but when I typed "<a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=racism+and+sexism+in+looney+toons&espv=2&biw=1279&bih=661&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjuub2uwYXLAhWIVj4KHcdXCEAQ_AUIBygC#tbm=isch&q=sexism+and+racism+in+Disney">sexism and racism in Disney</a>" into Google, tons of examples came up. Towards the end and a little throughout of this, Linda Christensen talks about how people can be more aware of what is out there in these movies. I think it really all comes down to more and more people being aware so that children don't get expose to these things. Even though they might be too young to even catch on, they're being exposed to it and those are the things that they are being taught. That is the way they are thinking life should be. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">This quote touches on the fact that all our disney princess's were white until a certain time. Even though there are princess's now in Walt Disney that are of color and different cultures, they are still not the popular ones. When some one says name a Disney princess, most people go straight to and say, "Snow White, Cinderella , Ariel and Belle." All these characters are white and those were the first Disney princesses that we were exposed to. Those are the templates of what a princess should look like and that definitely leaves people out. My point here is that there are people who think a princess should look a certain way. Even though there are colored princesses, not everyone agrees with it. I think it is great and it is important that everyone can feel special and know that they can live up to the standards of a princess. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;"> I choose to include this quote just because it shocked me a lot. Just this past Christmas, I watched this DVD I had with a little girl I baby sit and it was all these different stories involving Mickey Mouse characters. There was this one episode that was focused on Donald Duck and his family. I've watched this tons of times in my life and I never once thought of the main focus to be money. Now, looking and thinking back I see where she's coming from with that statement. This proves that these cartoons have their way of manipulating children and in ways I think we all can connect. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">I think this is important and makes us think of what myths we picked up on from children movies. I know one myth that stuck with me is the prince charming from Cinderella. Obviously, I know that's crazy but I do make jokes and say that Prince Charming would of done this, and Prince Charming would do that. It's a list of requirements that this film put in our head's of what a relationship should be like. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"> <span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.jonescollegeprep.org/ourpages/auto/2015/5/12/43083238/Aria.pdf">Richard Rodriguez </a>struggled his whole childhood growing up in a <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=bilingual&espv=2&biw=1279&bih=705&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjg65-imvjKAhVMbz4KHTuJBOwQ_AUIBigA&dpr=1">bilingual </a>home. He would speak non-stop spanish at home with his family but when he was at his catholic school, he was expected to be able to speak English like the rest of the kids. His problem was that he didn't speak English like his fellow classmates. It wouldn't flow and it wasn't comfortable for him to speak English but being in the school he was in, he had to learn to be comfortable with it. In his essay, he talks about how things changed for him once teachers from his school made a visit to his home. At his home they asked his parent's if they could start speaking more spanish at home, which they did. From there, he got more and more familiar to speaking English that hearing people speak Spanish became strange to him. Richard said that learning to speak English better definitely helped him go farther and be more successful which was something that would of never happened if he stuck to only speaking spanish. Learning to speak more English than Spanish did push his family apart a great deal."</span></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">The family's quiet was partly due to the fact that, as we children learned more </span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">and more English, we shared fewer and fewer words with our parents." (Rodriguez 37) I see his situation as a win one, lose one. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> While I was reading this piece of writing, I couldn't help but relate this story to the struggles that my little sister is still dealing with. My sister is sixteen now but when we were all growing up, my grandmother lived with us and all she spoke was Portuguese. Not a single word of English. I can understand a few words but I was never close to being able to have a full on conversation with someone. On the other hand, my sister Bethany can. Along with my grandmother, her godparents also don't speak a word of English. Basically, she has been around the Portuguese language way more than me for example, so she can have a conversation with someone in another language and it is more comfortable for her. She can speak more English but for some reason, she has always been more comfortable speaking in Portuguese. This comes to be a struggle for her because she starts to stutter and get nervous whenever she has to talk to someone in English outside my family. She's always saying how she think she sounds funny and how she can't pronounce anything right. When we go to Dunkin Donuts, she just now ordered what she wanted for herself about a week ago. She has trouble being comfortable talking English and that relates to what Richard Rodriguez went through because she's learning to adjust and always talk English because that's what everyone else around her is speaking. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"> I related Richard Rodriguez's struggle in life to the issues that were brought up in the SCWAAMP activity.(Grinner) The fact that Richard went to a catholic school relates right to the christianity aspect of the activity. Also, I notice the connect to White-ness and also Americanness. White-ness because throughout this entire piece, you can pick up on the fact that the English language was the center of attention and it's because we value it so much, we expect everyone to speak it. Americanness relates also in a similar way because we see the language of American's to be only English. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i><a href="https://www.deanza.edu/faculty/lewisjulie/White%20Priviledge%20Unpacking%20the%20Invisible%20Knapsack.pdf"><br /></a></i></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">This article talked a lot about how there's clearly more privilege that whites have over other races. This has been a problem for so long and it really doesn't, and won't go away because if you don't have white skin, you struggle with daily situations. Peggy McIntosh writes this strong piece about how much people with white skin do really have an advantage when it comes to what comes easier and harder to them. Even though it's disappointing and unfair, I always knew that whites have life easier but after reading this article, specifically the checklist, it made me actually realize that this is a bigger issue than I thought. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><i>" Many, perhaps most, of our white students in the United States think that racism doesn't affect them because they are not people of color; they do not see "whiteness" as a racial identity. In addition, since race and sex are not the only advantaging systems at work, we need similarly to examine the daily experience of having age advantage, or ethnic advantage, or physical ability, or advantage related to nationality religion, or sexual orientation. " (McIntosh)</i></span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I picked this quote because I think it showed that life just isn't fair. In our society, I think there are standards that everyone try to live up to but honestly,they're not realistic. As someone that's white, we don't notice how much we have advantage over other people. It's not even our fault, it's just how it is now. This quote points out that race and sex are not the only things that people use to their advantage. There's age, ethnic, physical ability, nationality, religion and sexual orientation. Overall, there is an easier way of living for some people while there are other people that deal with daily struggles because they're not white basically. For a white person, education, jobs, and careers as well as much more come easier to them and those are the things that people of different races struggle with their whole lives.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">"In the end however, it is men and not women who make the most money, men and not women who dominate the government and the corporate boards; men and not women who dominate virtually all of the most powerful positions of society. And it is women and not men who suffer the most from intimate violence and rape; who are the most likely to be poor; who are, on the whole, given the short end of <a href="https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=patriarchy+definition">patriarchy's</a> stick." (Deutsch)</span><span style="color: purple; font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">I don't know if we could go on and comment regarding something said by another author but I scrolled down to read <i>The Male Privilege Checklist </i>by B. Deutsch and a lot of things that were said made a whole lot of sense to me. This relates back to what McIntosh is saying in ways because this checklist shows what kind of advantages that men have over women. I agree with every part of his checklist but I wasn't going to quote it all. I picked this quote to sum it all up because it really shows the advantage men have over women. This list could be some of the invisible privileges that men have. We all know the saying, " the man of the house", and "women belong in the kitchen", and even though these saying make people mad, there's a reason to why madness comes from them. Women really do get the end of the stick while men can basically do what they want because they are men. The have better jobs, earn more money at their jobs even if there's a women doing the exact same job. Our society is shaped to put men on a pedestal. I agree with this quote completely because it's true. Men get more credit for doing the things that women do and I think it has to do with advantages that men have over us. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">After discussion in class Tuesday February 4th about how blogging went, I realized that I left out making a connection to another text that we already discussed. I can connect this text by Nicholas Kristof to ideas that were said by Lisa Delpit. Kristof says that everyone isn't given a fair chance at making it far in life and Delpit in ways gives reasons why and backs him up. Delpit brings up the fact a lot that people are at such a disadvantage because not everyone is informed of the rules and codes of power. By Delpit saying this, she is saying that there are people who are not told what to do , how to do it, where to go and overall, how to be successful in life while there are other people who are told and can use that to become and do whatever they want to do. I relate this back to Kristof's text because his main argument is that people are not given the same opportunities as other people and that all comes down to the fact that some people know and some people don't know the rules and codes of power. For example, Kristof mentions Rick and how he could never make it in life and I relate that back to the issue of where he came from and not being told how he should go about making success. </span></div>
Katherine Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00686343483270853589noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8517385287081473993.post-64580029190424652932016-01-31T09:53:00.002-08:002016-01-31T11:37:20.300-08:00<span style="color: #0b5394; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">U.S.A., Land of Limitations? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> This author <i>argues</i> that there isn't any truth in saying that we are living in a land of opportunities because there's limitations put on some lives right from the beginning. I believe Kristof's main point was to address the problem that not enough focus is on this issue of limitations. He states a couple times,"Now, that's what the presidential candidates should be discussing". (Kristof) He's making the point that as a nation we are focusing and going back and forth on things that are not particularly what we should be focusing a lot of our time on. There's the big problem of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty">poverty</a>, as well as many other things but Kristof believes that poverty isn't at the top of the list of things that need to be addressed and worked on. The people who have the power to address the issue are not usually part of the low income class and don't feel the need to do anything about it because they are not witnessing nor are they suffering therefore isn't an problem for them. </span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Kristof also talks about how being brought into and raised by certain families and their standings, will affect the kind of limitations that child will have on their lives. "A child born in the bottom quintile of incomes in the United States has only a 4 percent chance of rising to the top quintile, according to a Pew Study."(Kristof) In different parts of the world, the percentages change but are still low. Children who are born into a family of low income is shown/said to have a life where they never make it to earn more than their parents and end up still in with low income. I agree with was Kristof is saying because if someone is brought up and raised in an environment where they become comfortable with for example, drugs and alcohol, they are more than likely to follow in the same path. Not a lot of people in theses types of situations are able to get out. Like Kristof says, "It happens, but not often."I believe that anyone can get out of a bad situation, it just takes that person to be motivated to become better,and go farther. </span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Kristof mentions one of his old friends, Rick Goff and how he struggled with limitations he had on his life. </span><span style="color: #073763; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">From how Kristof talks about Rick, I picked up that he was a smart and hard working male who grew up not being able to really show he's talents due to the limitations put on him. This connected to his argument that some children have limitations put on them from the beginning. Rick Goff wasn't born into a high income home, therefore always struggled to make it higher in life. </span><br />
<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> Overall, I saw Kristof's point as not everyone is given a fair shot at opportunities because it's being based off where they come from and not from who they are.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #073763; font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I believe that this is such a big problem that is still going on now and will still go in the future. There are people who believe strongly that your past shapes your future and you have nothing to do with it and you will follow that path. Even though it doesn't happen as often as it should, people do try and become better than what they are born into. Everyone is said to be born with a clean slate but is that really what happens? </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Dad, Makayla(17), Me(20), Mom, Jasmine(21) & Bethany(16)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The picture above of my whole family is from my past birthday which was only a few days ago! January 23th! We went out to this Portuguese restaurant that I absolutely LOVE! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Having so many girls in the house is crazy but I'm happy that we are so close in age because we actually get along really well and I don't know what I would do without them. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My parent's are also the best because they support everything I do and are the ones always encouraging me to be the best I can be. They always give me that boost in the right direction and I can go to them for anything. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">oh & I can't forget the dog! </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(Me and Jessica)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my best friend Jessica. We met when we were in the same third grade class and we've been friends ever since. She goes to school now in New Hampshire but whenever she is down, we make sure to hangout. She even drove down here for 2 hours right before the crazy snow we just had just to go out to my birthday dinner with my family. I can always counts on her to be there for me for whatever I need. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The pictures above are of my boyfriend Ben and I. We just hit our fourth year of being together and I couldn't be any happier to have such an amazing person in my life.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Over the summer I spent so much time at the beach with my friends and family. In August right before last semester started, I went to Florida with my boyfriend. We stayed near Daytona Beach for 5 days. I don't usually travel and the last time I did, I was too young and don't remember. I loved loved loved the time I spent there and now I can remember every minute of it! It was fun and really was a relaxing time for me since I was working everyday over the summer non stop. The only thing I really hated was the plane. I get really motion sick and knew it was going to be terrible for me, and it was. The day we left, their was a huge rain/wind storm and the plane ride was soo shaky at times. The plane ride on the way back was also terrible but at least it was shorter since is was a straight through flight. Other than the terrible plane rides, the trip was amazing. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I work at a Day Care a couple minutes from my home and it's the best job ever. I love walking into a classroom and the kids immediately run up to you and are soo happy to see you. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* I love love love the zoo.*</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">* I have a little obsession with giraffes.*</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*I'm a Patriots Fan.*</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*I'm majoring in Secondary Ed in Mathematics.*</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*I watch Ellen DeGeneres almost everyday.*</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*I'm a big fan of The Bachelor.*</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*I enjoy painting and drawing. My room is covered with my artwork.*</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*My favorite foods are between shrimp, french fries, french toast and macaroni and cheese.*(very strange combination)</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*My favorite movie at the time is The Longest Ride.*</span></div>
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">*Obsessed with Beyonce BUT </span><span style="color: #741b47; font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">My Favorite Music is Country.*</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i><br /></i></span>Katherine Lopeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00686343483270853589noreply@blogger.com0