Some teachers are more comfortable teaching about Mexico than they are teaching about Mexican Americans who live within their own cities and states. Other teachers, as well as some publishers, do not distinguish between multicultural education and global education.
I believe, where you live depends the level of care or attention us Hispanics receive in early education. I believe the states surrounding Mexico have more of a focus on the huge transition from one culture to another.
The confusion over the meaning of multicul-tural education is exemplified by a question the editor of a national educa-tion publication asked me: "What is the difference between multicultural education, ethnocentric education, and global education?"
This is a scary quote. The fact that a editor of national education doesn't know the difference between the three. I pray it was a retorical sentence.
onsequently, groups such as Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos are added to the curricu-lum, but their experiences are viewed from the perspective of mainstream historians and social scientists.
In other words, we are like test subjects. It is a trail run to see if their ideals on education for us.
Multicultural education focuses on how race, ethnicity, class, gender, religion, language, exceptionality, sexual orientation
multicultural education focused on the students that were pretty much forgotten. Most people do not care about students outside the norm. It feels good to have a voice.
heory and research in multicultural education indicate that the total school must be reformed in order to implement multicul-tural education comprehensively and effectively.
I do not believe the total school needs change, just the subdivisions overseeing the students of concern.
Multicultural education assumes that race, ethnicity, culture, reli-gion, and social class are salient parts of the United States and other nations (Banks, 2009a, 2012, 2017
Building on my last annotation, multicultural education was my biggest concern regarding education. With English being my second language I always wished school was easier in the beginning to help my transition.
Multicultural education is an idea or concept, an educational reform movement, and a process (Banks, 2016d).
I am glad we are taking steps in the right direction as far as better education for everyone. Our education is a laughing stock world wide.
While the graduation rate for all students has improved significantly in recent years, just 43.4 percentof students with disabilities finished high school on time in 2017, nearly 30 percentage points lowerthan the citywide rate. Nearly half of those graduates with disabilities received what’s called a localdiploma, with requirements that are less rigorous than the norm
If this is the case then maybe they should look internally. these numbers scream for changes. It should be their goal to see that every student is success.
By the time T.J. was about 2½-years-old, it was clear to his mother that he was already behind. Histwin brother was speaking in full sentences. T.J. couldn’t say a word
Like the following sentence states, in twins sometimes their all delays, but that is a gap I think she is an awesome mother for picking it up early most parents do not.
In addition, in most cases, non-disabled students do not experience negative consequences whenthey are educated with students with disabilities and can even benefit from this practice (Hehir etal., 2016).
I never understood why they keep them apart from the normal school. I had nothing but the best interactions with disabled students. I honestly think they should be in normal classes it may benefit everyone.
Additionally, research shows that when students of color need special services in certain areas,they often do not receive them. For example, Morgan and Farkas (2018) found that 74% of White
Why do we continue to see statistics that support the same problems we have had schools for decades. It is not their fault, teachers should know and be better.
Misunderstood and Mistreated: Students ofColor in Special Education
The topic is straight to the point. Students of color are already misunderstood. I can't imagine what I am about to read.
Those who are labeled are reduced, as signifiers become identities; there's always more — they're always more (Ayers, 1996).
This is such a deep quote. Every single one of us are more than what meets the naked eye. We shouldn't label anyone if we are searching for equality.
n this paper I draw on my life story as a teacher educator and the mother of a daughter with disabilities to trouble the identity that positions and labels her as, first and foremost in U.S. school settings, a "child with special needs."
Sometimes I believe it is hard to sometimes separate family and work-life. I couldn't imagine what she goes through, but I know she's in a position to possibly make some real change.
. My goal is to encourage compassion and promote dialogue; the telling of her/our story is a method for inviting the reader to put her or him self in her/our place. As Lorde (1980) wrote in The Cancer Journals, survival is only part of the task; the other part is teaching.
This is huge, some people just write stories to write them. This author truly cares about telling her stories. The connection will create for a raw, more detailed reading.
Aside from coming-out moments that occur at home or at school, it’s even more difficultfor LGBTQ+ youth to understand their own intersectional identities, especially for those wholive in a highly collectivistic and multiracial family househol
I don't think they are confused. I believe that's how we label them because we don't understand their way of thought regarding a sensitive topic.
Ngo says how his mother and father were both staunchly conservative, if not, oblivious to talksabout the LGBTQ+ communit
Like I said in the previous reading, the problem is more likely life outside of school. School isn't our whole lives, this big of a change will change all ways of life not just schooling. Nobody will come out in an uncomfortable situation.
“I thought for a very long time that I was introverted. I realized that I just wanted to bemy true and genuine self - and that’s difficult if people act like it’s weird”
My grandparents once told me, You are never really living if you aren't even happy in their own self being. How do you think you can be happy in life, if you are unhappy with your own.
However, there are significant numbersof LGBTQ and ally students in schools, as well as significant numbers ofsexually aware heterosexual students.
it is 2024, the level of support has greatly increased, times have changed thankfully. Tons of people stay in the closet because of their live not only in school but away from it as well.
In keeping with our focus on the diversity of LGBTQ experiences, thischapter continues an analysis of the intersections of racial, gendered, andgender-identity-related violence, harassment, and alienation that students inpublic school and family settings experience
This will be one of the quotes I use to answer one of the questions for our assignment. This sentence proves that the readings focus, message, and topic for the week .
These may include a lack of role models in schools, discomfort withparental involvement, or, especially in the case of children with LGBTQ par-ents, difficult relations between school and family (Kosciw & Diaz, 2008).
In some cultures, being anything but straight could possibly mean death. For example I was watching the latest episode of brilliant minds where two young men seek asylum in the United States from Europe. I couldn't imagine not having support of my family and community for my sexual preference or how I see myself as a person.
More holisticapproaches to teaching about gender and sexuality diversities have shiftedaway from targeting individualized bullying situations to considering insteadhow the entire school should reframe its messages about gender and sexual-ity (Payne & Smith, 2012).
I am glad that it isn't be taught to hate on someone for no reason, but it is still happening children pick up most of their traits from home and social media or technology.
Practices like having elementary students line up bygender or organizing teams of boys against girls, she argues, highlight theimportance of gender differences to young students at a time when theyalso are working through different ways of being gendered themselves.
I believe this is truly Important. To teach our youth about gender identification and all the gender differences in todays society may be beneficial for real life situations.
ThinkingThrough BiasesandAssumptionsAbout LGBTQPeople
I think the reading title starts out deep. starting the reading with such a deep question makes us truly think through any biases or unnecessary hate that we carry in our hearts for reasons truly not needed in this world.
n this chapter, we will meet children from two Mexican American families with firsthand experience of these two schools: Isabella and her parents,
This study should be about the area in general not two families that support the evidence they are trying to make.
This inequality is also reflected in Orange County schools. Consider two high schools chat "input" measures (see Table 4.1) suggest are sur-prisingly similar: Troy High School in Fullerton and Santa Ana High School.
As a graduate from Fullerton High , we have a similar percentage of latin students to Santa Ana high . Troy High is a tech school their latin percentage is not in the same ballpark.
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.
I went to school near this area at the time , I would have to say I saw more growth in numbers from the asian and middle eastern communities. The latino population of Fullerton is near mostly downtown.
I was social-ized to say "ma'am" and "sir" when addressing my elders.
Like I said in previous readings you are the product of your environment . Pick up the good and throw out the bad. It may change the outlook on life.
For many students of color, however, "freedom of choice" too often h1-s meant freedom to fail or to barely get by.
I believe our upbringing can effect our growth, but it does not mean we want to fail. Sometimes life gets in the way and priorities change. I believe people of color like myself have to work just a little bit harder to achieve the same recognition, but its okay doe not mean giving up something that makes us better.
Such was the case for Manuel, a middle-class Chicano student who had been placed in Honors Geometry based on his strong mid-dle school math record but who found rhe class too difficult in the way it was rnughr.
Each Student's mind thinks and works differently. The teacher makes a big difference . I believe free tutoring should be apart of everyones education if needed.
Math placement typically serves a benchmark for ninth-grade aca-demic standing, ;rnd the <lisparities in math placement by race arc striking.
In education and in life we should not continue to separate by race. It comes down to resources and teachers without proper funding the care for education will continue to diminish.
Although Jennifer admits that she struggled with math in the past, she elects to enroll in a high-level math class: Honors Geometry.
How did she overcome her struggle? Did she obtain a tutor , pay someone to do her math work? What advantages did she get because of her social standing.
America has long depended on its schools
I believe we say we are depended on our future & schooling , in reality that's gaslighting in my opinion. We could put more Resources into schooling rather than other city or country spending. Look at our education versus other countries educations does it have more pros than cons?
Exposure to violence results in an inability to stay focused on the task at hand.
This is very true, I witnessed violence in my childhood due to my neighbors on a weekly basis . The children went from being so joyful and happy , to isolated and dull. The mind wants to escape, the only way to do that is to take your mind elsewhere.
Poor nutri-tion and inadequate health care have long-term effects on children's in-tellectual development.
Nutrition is one of the most crucial parts in youth growth & development . Food is like Gasoline, our bodies are cars without proper fuel we can not possibly have the energy to grow in anyway.
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.
When it comes to anything in todays society, money is power. It creates more advantages and opportunities to ones dream school or job. It isn't so much about what you know now, it is more like who you know.
Why do poor students perform poorly?" The question is not about poor students and why they underperform in a system purportedly designed to elevate their opportunities and outcomes. The question is, "Why are people poor?
The author makes it seem like he linked poor education with being poor. Wealth does not always success, you just get more opportunities. This thinking was indeed part of the problem.
Poor children fail in schools because they are not taking advantage. Poor people exist because they wasted a good, free educa-tion. The poor themselves are the problem.
This is a hot take. I do not agree with this statement. We are victims of our area. It is how you look at it , how you move, how you do not stop. I grew up in south central it was my dream to come to this university. I have lost friends to the streets/area that we call home. The last thing us "poor" people want to do is fail .
ese teachers of tomorrow are particularly concerned that even after all students h been offered "12 years of free schooling," they are unable to "lift themselv::~ out of poverty.
Like I said in the other reading, It comes down to the educators and how they teach. Students feel when teachers want and care about them and their education. I will always love my first grade teacher because of how she treated and taught each student. It matters to us.
An honest attempt to secure a good education for poor children therefore leaves policymakers with two difficult choices. They can send them to schools with wealthier children, or they can, as a reasonable second best, seek to give them an education in their own neighborhood that has the features of school-ing for well-off students.
I do not believe they need to be sent to a fancy school with wealthier children. It starts with the educators and who hires the educators. I have seen the smallest schools have the best education. It comes down to how and what we teach.
Most Americans believe that everyone has the right to pursue success but that only some deserve to win, based on their tal-ent, effort, or ambition.
I agree with this statement 99 percent. I would like everyone to win in whatever they chose to do. Failure is apart of the journey, the ones that want it more (success) will gain it over time.
Many issues in education policy have therefore come down to an apparent choice between the individual success of comparatively privileged students and the collective good of all students or the nation as a whole.
I believe the challenges between private and public education is money and privilege. Although it sometimes is a better education, I have come to notice it is how you teach our youth a certain topic. This generation is easily distracted thus keeping them engaged is key .