Oct.3

In reading chapters four and five of Other People's Children, by Lisa Delpit I have come to think of the education system in America in a different way then before. I have learned that not all schools are like the ones we grew up in. I went  to a almost all white school from pre-k to eight grade and many of not most of those kids were very privileged. Since being at college I have really experienced such diversity, no I am not shocked about this but its just a new group of people I get to meet and learn about that I would never get at home. I defiantly agree with Deplit that the way many schools teach diversity is inappropriate. I was the only Hispanic student in my grade until I had gotten to high school and then there was maybe eight out of almost seven hundred students.  I can not recall on one memory of learning about Hispanic culture.

Before reading this section of the book I had never realized how the minority participation in teaching was diminishing.If anything that is the reason I want to become a teacher, not many minorities teach. Never growing up did I ever have a black or Hispanic teacher, it took all the way until high school for me to even have a male teacher and I went to public school my entire life.

Inside my classroom I want to inform my students of all cultures and the different types of learning styles they have I believe that it is very important for children to have background on the world they are living in.I feel more informed on what is going on in the world after reading this section of the book, it has definitely changed y mind about my career path, it makes me want to become a teacher even more. I want to educate the world on diversity if I could.