The article's commentator discussed the racial makeup of the school, which allowed us as the readers to better understand the school that was being created. In doing so, we learned that people may have been similar at the different levels of intellect, but were struggling to understand their own personal identities.
Understandably, teachers whom tend to be of the upper racial hierachy tend to stumble when it comes to displaying ideas about reacial identity. These members of staff at this school, as for many schools, do so because they are either ignorant or because they are uncomfortable discussing racial identity in front of all members of society. This example of unknowlegdeable biasness to let some lesson on racial difference go by the wayside has proven to upset the members who are most unclear about themselves and their personal roles in their educational community; the members of racial minorities.
Staff meetings should have been the place where these issues are discussed about; like how to manage that football situation, or Lisa and her irritable attitude towards her writing lesson. It discusses how members of the faculty that were minorities would express their disgrutleness about a situation when they were not in the formal meetings. Well, what good can be done over an instance when it is not discussed.
I fear this very example for when I go into a classroom, I am not afraid to discuss any issue over race, but I fear that when I am to spark an understanding over the issue, I will do so incorrectly.
Saturday, April 18, 2009
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