Schools become drug-free zones, students are searched upon entering the school doors, and students are constantly within the grasp of an adult. The staff, faculty, administration, all effectively create an atmosphere of control. Essentially, the creation of a school culture of control, while perhaps acknowledging the students culture and community, requires the students to suspend their street culture, their street ways. To address the cultural heritage and the positive elements of a student s own unique culture, various activities are provided and curriculum is adjusted. Students are encourage to look at their own cultural roots, with its own ways of viewing and dealing with a simple to moderately complex world.
Teachers use role-model examples of people from the student s own ethnic group within lessons.
An example of this is the use of historical evidence of the scientific and political contributions of people with whom the student can identify. Ideally, students will absorb the positive elements of their own cultural background in an atmosphere that suspends the street culture and the interference it provides to student learning. This atmosphere within the classroom is one in which procedures are diligently followed by each student, who completely understands what she or he is expected to do. Students are accountable for their own performance, earning rewards and consequences accordingly. From the teacher s point of view, each student can succeed in this atmosphere.