GLSEN
Reflection:
I had never come across the website of GLSEN, I found it to be really helpful for people who needed a community or a support system. In my high school I had heard about the silence for the victims of being bullied and some of the students had worn red tape or tags that they said they weren't speaking. I thought they were very courageous to do that. I didn't think there was a very strong support system in my school for those students with not many teachers caring or doing much to start conversation about what was going on with the suicides.
Once I went into college it was a different setting and professors actually talked about topics that weren't normally spoken about in school. I wish in high school it was different and that teachers were open to everything. In my WMST's class we spent a lot of time talking about the differences of what it means to be transgender, bisexual, lesbian and gay. It was something that opened eyes and many terms that we talked about I had never known with how hard it is to change your sex with taking hormones and the surgeries.
The part that was even more disturbing was that so many teachers used homophobics slurs and words when they are teaching the children of the future. How can people not understand that children are impressionable? I know that I will never be the teacher that acts this way and says those horrible things.
Sunday, September 30, 2012
Sunday, September 23, 2012
Post #2
Post #2
Aria by Richard Rodriguez
Option: Hyperlinks
I found the article Aria written by Richard Rodriguez to be a very different point of view of how people have to understand a different language and how it changes your family lifestyle. With not having to deal with this at my home, I'm not really sure exactly what it would be like. Before reading the assignment I had read
Aria by Richard Rodriguez
Option: Hyperlinks
I found the article Aria written by Richard Rodriguez to be a very different point of view of how people have to understand a different language and how it changes your family lifestyle. With not having to deal with this at my home, I'm not really sure exactly what it would be like. Before reading the assignment I had read
Finding classroom success in noisy mix of Spanish, English by Sara Garland, I thought it was interesting because the author talks about an elementary school in California that teaches bilingual students 90% of the day in Spanish and then once the student reaches 3rd grade they integrate more English.
I thought it pertained a lot to the articles that we had to read this week for class. In Aria the author empasizes a lot that it was really awkward at home with his parents having to speak English so much so he was able to understand it in class. I think the system back then was also very religious because now in our society we don't have nuns coming to our houses and there is less communication between parents and teachers. In the Sara Garland article she writes that many parents are getting involved with trying to help their students.
Opinion/Questions Paragraph:
Did many nuns help people try to speak English back in the day? I feel like being involved in a certain religion also helps to connect people, that you have a common interest and more people are connected. Thinking about the nuns and helping his family to try to speak English around the children, makes me think of when I went to Camden, New Jersey for a mission trip with Assumption College and it was a great experience working with people of different backgrounds and the friends you make while living under the same roof. It taught us what it was like to live on 3.00 of food for a day and giving so much to the people. I got to go to a nursing home/rehabilitation center, an adult daycare and I walked around the city of Camden handing out flyers to help students that wanted to get an education. It was an amazing experience.
Sunday, September 16, 2012
Post #1
Post #1
Amazing Grace By Kozol
Quotes
1. "They say she gets a number," she replies. "City don't have the money for the living. I guess they think: why waste it on the dead." p.20
I thought this quote meant that the city doesn't care about the people that are poor and need help to live in houses and to stay helahty. They believe many people are just a number and that they don't deserve the respect that the wealthy get. Its the same thing in big schools many times you are only a number and there is no name associated with you.
2."Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city is something that a preacher could call evil. Somebody had power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people- that is my idea of evil." p.24
When I read this quote I thought a lot about Johnson and his piece with white privilege. I believe that many people don't know that they have this white privilege and this power over people. There also other people who know that they have this power but don't want to help anyone else but themselves. I think this was a main point of Kovac's piece that many people know that the poor need to be taken care of and that the hospitals that they go to are not up to standard but nobody in power does anything to fix it. They are left to their own means and that doesn't allow many people to get very far in a white privileged society.
3. "I believe that we were put here for a purpose, but these people in the streets can't see a purpose. There's a whole world out there if you know it's there, if you can see it. But they're in a cage. They cannot see." p.24
When Kovac talks about the prostitutes and the drug dealers in his piece I feel like this quote somes up how he feels that they might feel that they don't know anything else they were brought up in this culture and don't see anything besides sex or drugs. They are stuck in the cage that he is talking about and unable to leave because of the white privilege that exists around them and that it is very hard to get out of something that you are so used to.
Questions:
What did everyone else think of this piece? In my WMST's class we read another piece by Kovac and he wrote that from almost an interview type of writing just like this one was and I found it to be really easy to follow and more interesting than other pieces. I found it easier to read than White Privilege. I thought Kovac had a good point about how many poor people lose out on many basic things such as healthcare and even being buried because many wealthy people don't care to help them out.
Amazing Grace By Kozol
Quotes
1. "They say she gets a number," she replies. "City don't have the money for the living. I guess they think: why waste it on the dead." p.20
I thought this quote meant that the city doesn't care about the people that are poor and need help to live in houses and to stay helahty. They believe many people are just a number and that they don't deserve the respect that the wealthy get. Its the same thing in big schools many times you are only a number and there is no name associated with you.
2."Evil exists," he says, not flinching at the word. "I believe that what the rich have done to the poor people in this city is something that a preacher could call evil. Somebody had power. Pretending that they don't so they don't need to use it to help people- that is my idea of evil." p.24
When I read this quote I thought a lot about Johnson and his piece with white privilege. I believe that many people don't know that they have this white privilege and this power over people. There also other people who know that they have this power but don't want to help anyone else but themselves. I think this was a main point of Kovac's piece that many people know that the poor need to be taken care of and that the hospitals that they go to are not up to standard but nobody in power does anything to fix it. They are left to their own means and that doesn't allow many people to get very far in a white privileged society.
3. "I believe that we were put here for a purpose, but these people in the streets can't see a purpose. There's a whole world out there if you know it's there, if you can see it. But they're in a cage. They cannot see." p.24
When Kovac talks about the prostitutes and the drug dealers in his piece I feel like this quote somes up how he feels that they might feel that they don't know anything else they were brought up in this culture and don't see anything besides sex or drugs. They are stuck in the cage that he is talking about and unable to leave because of the white privilege that exists around them and that it is very hard to get out of something that you are so used to.
Questions:
What did everyone else think of this piece? In my WMST's class we read another piece by Kovac and he wrote that from almost an interview type of writing just like this one was and I found it to be really easy to follow and more interesting than other pieces. I found it easier to read than White Privilege. I thought Kovac had a good point about how many poor people lose out on many basic things such as healthcare and even being buried because many wealthy people don't care to help them out.
Hi everyone, hope your weekend went well!! Mine was extremely busy there were two birthdays in my family, I have eaten so many sweets in the past three days. A little bit about myself I'm 20 years old. I love sports, I'm a really big basketball fan. I love the Boston Celtics and also the Red Sox. This summer I got to go to Aruba with my boyfriend and his family. I was also busy working at KFC during the summer.
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