His family just moved to the U.S. He is a Latino male entering the 7th grade. His teachers, the administrators, the counselors expect him to fail; their reasons are simply because Latino males either drop out of school, then go to jail or drop out, then go into the labor working field. Yet, there was one teacher who daily told her class that did not matter what their race is, all received the highest expectations from her. She was the only teacher that had expectations of him.
- What are other methods for teachers/administators and other students can do to change the racial stereotypes in connection to school achievement?
- Please feel free to share comments/questions on the issues of race and school achievement, and what we as a society can do to change it.
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All of these stories are based on information thats been placed on a certain race. When in actuality any of these stories could be for anyone not just the race that there focused on.
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ReplyDeleteWe believe, as you do, that all of these stories could be recognized by many students in America.
Our little group is itself diverse in various ways, so we wanted to include a variety of stories.
Everybody knows this teacher. I had one great teacher who told us girls that we could do any of the things boys could and I believed her. She also told us that she did not reward her children if they got good grades of course she encouraged them to do well in school. This did not mean that she did not believe in rewarding she just thought, that she’d rather wanted to encourage her children to try make the world a better place and when they succeeded in that they where rewarded. She is the reason why I am a teacher since my grades in high school was the best in my class and I could choose to study any subject at the Danish universities. The Danish universities is by the way free of charge for all Danes and their standard are quite good. Lene Vestergaard Hau (http://www.seas.harvard.edu/haulab/lene_vestergaard_hau/lene_vestergaard_hau.htm)
ReplyDeleteWas a Danish physic student from Aarhus University but she is now professor at Harvard university’s physics apartment. She has also told abaut a similar teacher she had in high school. He was great in her eyes because he did not believe that she could not do well in the physic class just because she was a girl. Actually teachers are like everyone else and if the society in general is dominated by racist thoughts or favors males on behalf of the females or in other ways is dominated by discriminating thoughts then the teachers will reflect the society. Some teachers will be discriminating and some teachers will not. This is why the only way to fight any discrimination is not to accept it and debate discrimination wherever and whenever we meet it.
However, I remember about 20 years ago in Denmark wanting to study Environmental Engineering at a somewhat advanced age. The admissions counselor told me that no one would hire a 50-year old woman engineer.
ReplyDeleteAnd I didn't feel like studying many years and then not getting a job!
So I worked with the environment in other ways instead.
This is a sad story. You should had stayed in environmental class to prove that he was wrong. When my mother was studying medicine and went to the hospital to get some clinical training the doctor at the hospital told the girls that they where not allowed to wear trousers they should wear skirts under the hospital uniform. The day after all girls including those who had worn skirts the first day went to the hospital in trousers The male doctor did not dare sending all of the female student home.
ReplyDeleteYou bring up some interesting points about the indelible link between education (what should be the ideal world) and the biased world of work. Sometimes you wonder if career counselors do people a favor about cautioning those people against those biases and steering away from certain careers. I think not...
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