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In reply to the discussion: A 13-Year-Old's Slavery Analogy Raises Some Uncomfortable Truths in School [View all]hairy krishna
(12 posts)and that her parents may have had a hand in this viewpoint (where else would she get such ideas at her age?), but in any case, I do agree somewhat with her.
I am studying for my teaching license. It's insufferable with this diversity training. I am convinced that it is not doing a lick of good, either. I have been present in classrooms with new teachers who demonstrated appalling attitudes towards students. One White teacher chatised (and mocked) her Black student for using "Ebonics" (African-American Vernacular English or AAVE). The other dissed a student's mother for not buying her glue from the dollar store (the kid was in first grade, for Pete's sake!).
It's not enough to teach White and/or middle-class students how to deal with urban youth. We need teachers who look like their students, not simply books and other materials which resemble them!