Although many participants may not have been proud of their comments, it took courage for them to acknowledge their real feelings associated with stereotypes. The process helped participants acknowledge the feelings of their colleagues who deal with labels and negative stereotypes every day. A second activity clarifies opinions or positions. I push participants not to settle for their initial responses but to question and examine their thoughts and beliefs. The middle class is the middle class.
Teachers have skills that they want to impose on others.
They are such narrow skills that we value they lack diversity. Sometimes even as a woman a white middle class person, but a woman I can t succeed in the skills. I wanted to see if all voices were heard and had the same view, so I asked the people of color in the group to give their reactions to the statement. I wholeheartedly agree that there is an ideal student and rarely is that student the person that s sitting in certain classes. And when it is it s because that person has absorbed all the white, middle class values.