Mon+2-13

What problems will you face as teachers regarding how schools are structured? What power do we have to change structures? Katelyn Frix and Emma Cooke

Before Class:

1. Please read the following article:  Think about these things:


 * What were your experiences with Accelerated Reader (AR)? Did you ever think of AR as bad?
 * What about fund raisers? Did you participate? Why are public schools having fund raisers in the first place?
 * What kinds of picture books did you read when you were little? What did teachers say about racism, sexism, and prejudice in your classroom

2.) During Class:

**__Seeing the Strange in the Familiar: unpacking radicalized practices in early childhood settings__**
Video: Black or White: Kids on Race


 * Where do you think the children obtained their generalizations about race?

//"...the students' library cards were marked with a dot representing and regulating their reading levels, marking their identity as readers" (p.522).//
 * What kind of effects might this have on students' self esteem? Is it fair to regulate what they can and cannot read?

//"The message being given was that for one to be a good student, one had to sell such products. Consequently, if one did not sell, she/he came to be defined as a 'bad' student by default or implications"(p.517).//
 * Should it be considered fair to recognize the children who sell a lot? What about children like Tyrone who desperately wanted to, but didn't have the means? As teachers how do we decide what is appropriate?

//"It (PTA) began as a women's movement in which all women including those of color were integral to the mission. However, currently, the PTA image is that of a White, middle-class women's association"(p.516).// How might the current image of a typical elementary school's PTA group affect student's perceptions of who "belongs?"

//"By investigating the institutional discourses and common practices that continue to shape and support the educational segregation of young children. educators can more towards challenging the separate and unequal education received by so many children of color and/or low socioeconomic status that commonly hides behind the façade of apparently integrated school buildings"(p.515).//

//"The first time Ms. Brice read the book, one Latina student asked, 'What happened to the Mexican kids during Jim Crow?...The children wanted to know where people like themselves -biracial, Latinos,and immigrants sat on segregated buses"(p.524).//

__Examples of the Jim Crow Laws__ [|Sylvia Mende]
 * __Education:__Separate free schools shall be established for the education of children of African descent; and it shall be unlawful for any colored child to attend any white school, or any white child to attend a colored school. Missouri
 * __Intermarriage:__ The marriage of a person of Caucasian blood with a Negro, Mongolian, Malay, or Hindu shall be null and void. Arizona.