Why Cant She Remember That?

As a child goes along in life it is important to not only keep reading to them and once they get older have them read to you on occasion or by themselves, but also about diversity that they may see in their school.http://www.sheknows.com/parentingarticles/98657/10-childrens-books-that-teach-diversityThis link shows a wide range of books that teach elementary students about diversity in the world and how its not only one ethnicity. They need to be taught this because something a white person may know isn't something a colored person may know or visa versa because of how their parents raise them. Some kids in lower level families, as taught to us in class when Inspiring Minds came to train us they said that some of the kids we may tutor or see may not know as many words because their parents do not communicate with them as much as other parents do. It is important to not only read to your child or practice math, but also to communicate with them so they what words mean when they hear them or how to use it in  the correct context when writing or speaking something.When reading to a children make sure to not make it to boring or they will not understand or pay attention, it is important to "make the book come alive" as Meier states in her article. It is not only making sure they are paying attention to you, but also that they get what they are listening to.

The Silenced Dialouge

        This article stood out to be at various of different points in the story. When I first saw the name of this article I did not know what they meant by Silenced Dialogue. In society today no one realizes uses this term, but people are doing it everyday, especially teachers. This is because teachers think just because someone is a different race then you does not mean that they do not know how to control themselves and act respectively in a classroom. A kid of white could be acting up in class and a teacher would not even realize because she is to concentrated on thinking how she can get the colored kid in trouble. When I become a teacher down the road some day I will make sure that everyone gets the same amount of attention no matter what race they are.

      After reading this article I was interested to see the percentage of Afrian-Amercians and other ethnicity rate of graduation in schools, either due to the lack of motivation or mainly not wanting to go to school because they are left out and made fun of because they are a different race then the majority of their school, in most cases. This is not right everyone should get the same amount of education no matter what their race is and teachers should not be able to become teachers if they are going to discriminate against opposite race as them. http://blackdemographics.com/education-2/elementary-high-school-education/ This article show the percentages of a variety of education for African Americans in the 2009-2010 academic school year.

     This article got to me because I do not think it is fair that children of different race gets a different opportunity in classes to do as good as they can. It states in the article by Delpit that many of the parents come in for meetings to see what they can do to fix the kids attitude in the classrooms, but no one ever thinks that the kids is behaving and the teacher does not like something the kid did just because he is a different race. Kids in school; special needs, white, blacks, or even someone that isn't from this country and is just starting to learn English, as a second language should all have the same opportunity to have the same education no matter what their differences are. In my own personal opinion I think that if a teacher can not accommodate for everyone in the class then they should not be a teacher.

Amazing Grace

This article really brought to my attention about how much some people may take advantages of the things we do have. We do not realize how much we have and how little other people may have in the world because we are to busy worrying about the things we want and not necessarily need. The bottom of page 4 really stuck out to me when it says "You just cover up....and hope you wake up the next morning" says a father of four children, one of them an infant one month old, as they prepare to climb into their sleeping bags in hats and coats on a December night. Some people in this world take advantage of the things they have and do not realize some of us may have more things then we know what to do with. Where as other people in this world are lucky they are able to sleep in a sleeping bag because some just live in the cold every day of there life because they do not have a place to call
home, that they can go to at the end of the day to stay warm. Its happening right around us in New York where thousands of people are homeless or stay in shelters. http://www.coalitionforthehomeless.org/the-catastrophe-of-homelessness/facts-about-homelessness/
Another quote that stuck out to me was "I ask how many people in this building now have AIDS. "In this building? Including children, maybe 27 people. That s just in this section." It saddens me how people in this area do not have money but will inject needles with different type of drugs in their bodies and then pass it on to their children. That is just cruel to the kids and cruel to your bodies. Its ridiculous what people will do out their now a days and not care if they are harming themselves or anyone around them. For example on page on page 11 it talks about how the mother of the kids boyfriend raped the little girl in her own bed. I don't get how anyone can do that to anyone especially at that age, even at that it should not happen to anyone, but people are "sick" now a days and do whatever they want to please themselves and make them happy. Its awful to hear about what some people in this world go through on a daily basis and knowing that you may not be able to prevent it because of the people they are surrounded by is awful and should not be done to anyone in this world, especially little kids. This article called Amazing Grace, by Jonothan Kozol,  opened up my eyes to how much I have in this world compared to other people, like the ones shown in the article.

About Me

Hi, my name is Sarah Casey and I am currently a freshman at RIC. I am studying to become and elementary education teacher with a concentration in Special Education.I was born and raised in Cumberland, Rhode Island, in the same house for 18 years now. I am also an only child and when I am not at the dorms at RIC I live at home with my mom and dog, named Dakota. When I am not at school I am usually working at a grocery store, called Seabra Foods. If I am not busy with school or work I love to hangout with my friends and family. I enjoy going for runs, going to the gym, swimming, shopping and playing with my dog. This semester has gone good so far and I can't wait to see what this semester has to offer. I am excited about this course to learn more about the education field and what the rest of my life has in store for me as a teacher.