Reflection

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I strongly agree with Ms.Simmons, she made a touching statement. I do believe her  perspective was affected by her own experience and also believe her feelings are indicative of students across the country and even in Texas. Some people can relate to Dena Simmons's experience or experienced a different kind of situation, but shared the same indignity feeling for instance, When it was my first time attending middle school, my classmates in my social studies class were judging me just for being the quiet kid in class. In the middle of semester a new student had arrived, she seemed very friendly, in quite some time we began being friends till one day, one of my peers told her not to be friends with me because I was weird and slow. The reason I was quite in class because I was new and uncomfortable. The teacher never took the time to make the classroom a learning environment. 
Every year diverse will become more and more higher and soon the number of white students will be reduce through time. "Four decades after Dr. King's death, we are a very different nation. We are a nation where the White population will become the minority in the nation's schools in just a few years". Education will change when white students are the minority. When the time comes, teachers are going to be obligated to learn about student's different backgrounds.Teachers are going to have to train harder in order for their class to achieve the academic knowledge of their grade level. As a future educator, I will take a Spanish program to become more fluent even though I'm bilingual because it will be easier for me to communicate better with students and their parents.

 To address educational inequalities in the classroom is very important to be able to help those students that is of the important reasons a teacher need the skills and the experience. Those students need the same opportunity to succeed in life, every student matters.

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  1. Jhuliana LozanoFebruary 1, 2018 at 7:39 PM

    I agree with you Diana I think that it is important that educator make a learning and comfortable environment in the classroom.

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  2. r3iFebruary 1, 2018 at 9:12 PM

    That is one of the problems in a school environment that we have to address. What your classmates did to you is the same as bullying. As teachers, we have to know what is going on in the classroom.

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