Reading an article for school and had to share..... We lack complex understandings of how individual, family, community, school, and societal factors interact to create school failure for some students. It is much easier to explain students failure by looking at something internal to the students than endemic in this thing we call school culture.Self-esteem is liberally sprinkled throughout American English. Every talk show host, every talk show guest has uttered the word. I overate because I had low self esteem. I allowed my partner to abuse me because I had low self-esteem. I eagerly await the day when someone says, I overeat because I am surrounded by food ads and fast-food outlets that sell nothing but high-fat, unhealthy food, and as a poor person it is more difficult to buy fresh fruits and vegetables and take time to prepare them. Or, I was abused by my partner because hes a jerk who has decided to work through his own shortcomings by taking advantage of me. The society says he should make a certain amount of money to take care of his family. He doesnt make it and I am a constant reminder of his failure but Im an okay person. - Gloria Ladson-Billings (Its Not the Culture of Poverty, Its the Poverty of Culture: The Problem With Teacher Education)
Posted on: Tue, 13 Jan 2015 05:08:02 +0000
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