Reflection September 5,2014

 Other People's Children by Lisa Delpit has brought multiple questions to my mind as a reader and a student studding to become an educator.I have learned from chapter one alone that some teachers still believe that black students aren't advancing with other races that teachers who don't always take that one on one time to see the students and hear their stories believe that they are going to fail or that they are falling behind compared to other students. Just as Deplit didn't understand why her black students didn't succeed, until she looked back at her past as the same with me. I was raised in a Hispanic house where we were more focused on making our house a home girls are to take care of the children and the home not worry about schooling and work. Its heart breaking when people of our kind and the way we were raised don't succeed the same way "white" children do. The "right" techniques that all the teachers that come in contact with each other want to learn is exactly how I feel as well as them. Each culture, each ethnicity, each community, we all have different approaches and methods to learning and teaching. Sometimes it takes walking into a difficult situation like it did for Lisa Delpit in the first chapter: Skills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator, but she saw it first had that what educators are being taught and all the  workshops they go to do not always fit into the class room. All of us as students get taught but we are teachers to, to our classmates and mostly to our teachers because they see how well we succeed and what we don't succeed in or take interest to. Only reading the first two chapters of Other People's Children has already taught me so lessons to take with me for my journey into my career.