There were a few quotes that stuck out to me while reading Delpit's article. "If schooling prepares people for jobs, and the kind of jobs a person has determines her or his economic status and, therefore, power, then schooling is intimately related to that power". This quote does make sense because schooling is a chain effect related to your future and status. Determining at a young age where you are from and what school you go to has a way of determining the means and access to different job opportunities,
The quote above is linked to another quote in Delpit's article. "Children from middle class homes tend to do better in school than those from non middle class homes." This quote reminded me of when the women from Inspiring Minds came and talked to us about the diverse classrooms in the Providence school system. These families are mostly low income families. They gave a statistic where these children hear half the words per hour than those of a middle class families. This then is taken to the classroom where the child may have difficulty learning. Now, this is a chain effect like the quote above states where this can determine the job they get later on in life, which then can relate to their economic status.
I agree with you about the students who are behind in poor communities as inspiring minds stated. I witnessed first hand in a school I recently visited in Providence, the children there are behind in the curriculum because of such unfortunate barriers.
ReplyDeleteI agree that schooling such as education is a source of power. If it wasn't for schools we wouldn't have different rank in society such as our government system and be under one ruler such as a King. Because of education we have a voice.
ReplyDeleteI agree, in today's society it seems that education does equal power. Most people need a college degree to get a good paying job, if a child does not have this schooling then they may not be able to provide for themselves or their families later in life.
ReplyDeleteBecause a child's parents might have a poor background, their children are at an immediate disadvantage. Their parents might not even a degree higher than that of a high school diploma so they want their children to do better than they did. However, like you said, the children then don't get the help at home they might need which reflects in their school work. This also is a problem of poor background students.
ReplyDeleteI agree, I thought the same thing about your second quote. It all reminded me of Inspiring Minds, it is funny, we both mentioned the same thing in our blogs about the statistics they told us about. Schooling plays such a major role in our future and it is sad that some students are not given the opportunity to better their education due to money.
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