At What Lengths Will I Go Through In Order To Do Right By Every Child?
This week we were asked to read multiple articles, journal entries, watch TedTalks, a read excerpts from books. As I was reading each piece of work or listening to each story my drive to be a better teacher grew with each piece. The common denominator between each literary sample given was simple: People of color are constantly treated differently in the classroom. It is crazy to think that this treatment is still going on in 2023 and we are still having discrimination occur in classrooms. One of the most important things I was able to take from the material given was in chapter 3 of Teacher Wars a quote from W.E.B. Du Bois and he said "In the Black World, the Preacher and Teacher embodied once the ideals of this people- the strife for another and a juster world , the vague dream of righteousness, the mystery of knowing." This quote comes after learning that white women were taking teaching jobs to promulgate Protestantism and give women social alternatives to marriage. Du