Jeff Duncan Andrade in his speech
talks about children growing up in urban areas. Children that grow in urban
areas go through incidents in their daily life that a normal person would never
have to endure. They see many deaths and homicides in a year; a child can lose
someone close in their lives. Kids are expected to go to school and not talk
about their life problems. School wants kids to care about excelling in state
tests and what not, but their basic needs are not being met. I think many kids
nowadays have many more problems than any time before that school comes
irrelevant to their life. Due to personal or family problems kids have to grow
up fast. When kids don’t have a role model that has actually succeeded to going
to college it makes it hard to believe in themselves. I think in urban areas
children’s parents have to work a lot or are too busy to show affection to
their children. The feeling of not being accepted or loved might make the
child’s confidence level be low. I think low confidence can be a problem in
school because a shy kid won’t ask questions or ask for help. The teachers
should be welcoming and in engage with each student. Why should student care
about learning if the one teaching shows no care for the student? Andrade says,
“Urban schools are not failing. They are doing what they are design to do. If
they weren’t; if they were really failing then we would be doing things
radically different”. He believes the
system is aware that students are disengaged in school but yet do not do anything
to change the curriculum. It seems schools are preparing young people to be
failures because that’s what they were born into. I think the reason kids are
not graduating is because the government don’t want the minorities that live in
urban areas to be educated.Discuss…
1.
Who truly cares about creating more efficient
students?
2.
How does his speech relate to privilege?
3.
If more cities followed Andrade’s teaching
system do you think it would actually work and more students would be engaged
in school?
I agree with your point in children not having role models so they feel lost. I feel like I can really related to that too. As for your first question, I really think it's a teacher's job in addition to the student's parent's job to create efficient students. They both need to show this child that they care about them and their problems. This should make the student care too.
ReplyDeleteI agree that a child might feel confidence might be dependent on whether or not they feel accepted or not. That plays a big part in the classroom like you said when they don't wan to ask for help because they're too shy or scared their opinions are wrong. Your first discussion question is really good because yes, we want to produce the most successful students as much as possible. But who are the ones that actually care about the students themselves progressing and learning? Is it the teacher's who's hard work is shown through what each student has learned, or is it the parent's who cares about how far their student/child makes it in their life with their education.
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