Teach Talk

  In the famous U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, we win in making school segregation illegal. So why are we still struggling with this concept today? We have learned throughout the module some intriguing and a little disturbing concepts and history facts. Red lining separated white neighborhoods from minority neighborhoods. Minorities or people on the red side were given little to zero loans, benefits, and could never get the chance to cross over to the green side or white neighborhoods. Why? To put it simple it was strictly because of their skin color. So, then the green side gets higher, more prosperous, and wealthier while the red side decays. This same thing carries on to today’s world and we have yet to do much about it… This same idea follows to the school system. The schools are not all integrated and some put on this false advertisement it. I know it is a silly reference but in the TV show Shameless this is literally shown in the episode. The private s...

 I as a future teacher want to promise myself and my future students that I will uphold and help fight for rights as a person, student, and learner in my classroom. I really want my students to feel that all of their rights are there for them. I don't feel that students should feel almost trapped in a cage with no rights. As a student I always heard that to students school felt like a prison and they felt trapped without rights. Even as they grow older they still had this hard mindset and it makes me feel sad. I had teachers that let me express my rights in school and that made me pretty much not hate school. I want to have my students understand that they can have the freedom to express their rights anytime they please. I most importantly want to protect my students freedom of speech and religion. I feel that these are one of the most important aspects in a students life. Yes these rights can be abused in some ways but that is up to them. I understand that we do not necessarily wa...