Racism And Discrimination In Schools

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Chapter four talks about Ebonics and how it exists even though some of us agree with it and others disagree. It used with Native people and how they communicated with their child like baby talk which is vital for the child development. Teachers really push the children to pronounce words correctly which does not produce fluency but silence and resentfulness. As students grow from 1st grade to 4th grade their English changed from the dialect of mainstream society to their own community dialect. That happened through becoming aware of new knowledge or even just home and community environment. Recording the children conversation really helps them understand how they are communicating in English and own native language. Teachers including the majority teachers constantly categorize the minority children as incompetent and most likely to fail due to …show more content…

Discrimination is a bad behavior and the harmful effects whereas racism is categorizing individuals with what society believes or sees. The most powerful way to discriminate against individuals is through institutions where it affects a huge group by inputting restrictions in the public systems. Individual discrimination or racism is not a lasting effect on the individuals where they are being bullied. Racism began long age like when African American were discriminated against which was well before schooling but it has become involved in schooling today. In the schools there are certain policies that are put in place that creates a racist environment like separating students by race in the classrooms or tracking more of their assignments. Teachers are afraid to being up racism in the classrooms because they feel they will make the problem worse by identifying those individuals. We as a Nation think we’re including everyone but we create the separation between individuals like certain classes provided for those ESL students and family

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