Zac Guglielmo
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Blog Post 6 Kahne Westheimer

Quotes

Quote 1 - "He argued for the creation of 'Miniature communities' in which students would work together to identify and respond to problems they confronted.'

I really don't like this idea. If we learned anything from human history it is that people when they are separated and are looked at as different promote]es hate and even war. Humans love war based off history. This is obviously on a different scale than in class but if this takes place in a classroom all I can see is a divided class. The idea off group work is very nice and cool because you get too look at things from other people point of view. I do not like the idea of maybe making the classroom like different communities. I don't know how long the community would last , say the whole year. Wouldn't it turn like the world now? Say by towns. I would be more opt to talk to people in my community or my town. I don't think that students values and beliefs would benefit from this idea. Dewey and I obviously have different views on this.

Quote 2 -"They stress the importance of civic duty and the need for responsive citizens."

I agree with this heavily. This is part 1 of the way of the moral domain. I think even in our society it is very important to be active in our communities and to voice our opinions. The idea of civic duty is also extremely important. As you can see in our world when you're called upon to go to a court and be part of a trial then you are sometimes unwilling to but you are helping out your community and you are also taking in part and exercising your rights. Responsive citizens are also hugely important. Change doesn't just happen , it happens from others ideas and others willingness to follow through with their ideas.
Quote 3 - "They call tor a curriculum that emphasizes critical reflection about social policies and conditions, the acquisition of skills of political participation, and the formation of social bonds."

This is the second part of the moral domain. Critical reflections and actually using your mind and thinking is very important. It allows you to make educated choices. When we talk about social policies and conditions, one of the best things is that we all can voice our opinions and critically think to make better outcomes or better future plans. Politically it is also very important to participate because we are so essential in our own communities. I think the moral domain is a very good thing to educate students on. There is a very good outcome with this idea of teaching, it can prepare students for the future and educate them in a school way also. Very intriguing ideas.

Zac Guglielmo
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August


Discussion -


Throughout the curriculum theme that was going on early on in. this reading I found it quite redundant that there should be some kind of LGBT involvement. I would like to see how others feel about this subject. I personally feel that there shouldn't be any kind of LGBT teaching in early education , not because the children shouldn't get to understand it, more of the spect that it is to young of a group. I believe that when younger children are experiencing things such as sex education or reading articles and something comes up, I think that heterosexual and homosexual relationships or themes are the only ones that should be allowed. I believe more of the transgender, bisexual and other genders should be learned away from school. I don't look at school as teaching me about gender, thats society in my opinion. I believe in LGBT but I don't like the forcing of it in a curriculum. Naturally learning about things are sometimes better than learning about them in school.I remember when I was in school as a younger boy I only learned about heterosexual relationships, I saw a man and a woman together and saw it as normal. Now in the world there is so much going on with different genders and people can choose what they want but I think now a days in school heterosexual and homosexual should be the basis. Homosexual relationships have become so much more accepted even in the time since I was younger and that is the only reason why I think it should be learned about.Another point that is Brough up is language and how someone said the word "gay". I believe that language is language and you can say whatever you want within certain. boundaries. Never would I say it is okay to call someone gay if there homosexual, I think that if its used in a harmless matter there shouldn't be any penalty. I am very guilty of these things. I use the word "gay" not in a derogatory word but like oh thats gay. I don't think its more opt that a homosexual will do something but I substitute that word in for the word stupid or dumb or annoying. I think people cant take things so personal and be so critical about things. Also I am confused with the aspect of good intentions art enough. When you say that you are hoping people act perfectly. That is impossible. I think good intentions are most of the time enough. You cant expect someone who hasn't experienced some of these issues to act like someone who did. Word choice os greatly influenced by upbringing and personal experience. If I am gay then im sure I wouldn't be calling something that is a physical object gay. Its all in the intentions. You can tell when someone is deliberately going out tom hurt you or just using the word. I think all in all that people cannot take things so personally and to the heart. The LGBT community is in safe hands , I just think they need to believe it. When you take things to far and have so many restrictions then I think any social group will feel unsafe. Its important to respect others but also for others to respect there is more than 1 way to view things.

Zac Guglielmo
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Christensen

Quotes

Quote 1- "There should be more people of color in these white-on-white wedding cake tales"

I strongly disagree with this quote.It can come off wrong me disagreeing with this but I personally feel that stories that were written with white leads or black leads or Spanish leads should always stay that way. If its a created concept and the writer makes it universal and says that then it is fine for any race to have that lead. Cinderella was written as a white blonde woman, I think that it should always stay that way. Not by any sort of racism or discrimination but just how the story was supposed to be told. If a movie is made about Rosa Parks then the actor of Rosa parks would never be a white female. Very different examples but they follow the same concept. Fighting for equality is very important but I think on the way to equality you cannot make everything so soft and change so much. How things are originally created should stay that way and thats why I strongly disagree with this.
Quote 2- "She shows us how to turn the mirror into an enemy"

I cannot agree with this more. The fact of social media or in this case tinker bell looking in the mirror and seeing negativity makes her look at herself negatively. It isn't fair. So many females want to have perfect bodies and be perfect in every way but that isn't reality. The portrayal of models on social media or magazines or movies is awful.The amount of makeup worn, photo cropping and fairness is baffling. It leads to people starving themselves or killing themselves or making life changing decisions yo try and fit in.I am sure its awesome to be that perfect person but you cant try to obtain something that isn't truly you.If you go out of your way to be a different you than you're ruining the real you in the process. It is very sad. For men in a much less concentration there is the same things. Not all men will have a six pack and be ripped. If you try to do that and succeed good for you but people shouldn't judge you because you don't look like the rock. Social media is the root of this evil.

Quote 3- "I don't want my students to think that change can be bought at the mall"

This is something very relevant in todays world. People think that they literally can go and buy change, whether it be at the mall, the car dealership or a jewelry place.People need to manufacture change in their own lives and that takes a very long time.Going on a diet for 9 months manufactures change in a lifestyle, grinding in school for years changes your life because you can get a better paying job, having children can change your life because you become a parent. Changes in life don't happen often, purchases are not. change. People can try and fit in with purchases but that won't necessarily change anything. Everything good has to be worked for and things that you work for are usually things you don't like right now and need to change. It is alike a big circle and money and purchasing Isn't very important in the big circle.Change cant be bought, but it can be attained by hardworking and dedication.

Zac Guglielmo
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Rodriguez
Quote/Discussion

Quotes 1- "My mother! My father'! After English became my primary language, I no
longer knew what words to use in addressing my parents."

This is so sad, I don't know how I would feel if this happened to me. I believe that this is completely wrong by the people who are telling these kids and the society of people who are bilingual and speak different languages at their homes to stop speaking anything but English. I think that stripping someone down of heritage and stripping them down of their own identity is completely ignorant and awful.If that happened to me I wouldn't know how to act, I couldn't even communicate with my parents. Its something that we need to respect as people and a country as a whole. I know many people who will say this is America speak English. This is America, land of immigrants, speaking multiple languages is no problem. Teaching the common tongue in school is normal but trying to strip someone of who they are is unacceptable.

Quote 2 - "The silence at home, however, was finally more than a literal silence."

This quote is another quote that I find sad, the silence at the home began to really become prevalent. Spanish roots were cut and the communication was no longer there, family was being lost. Without communication people don't interact. In this the people weren't speaking Spanish to their parents and that led to much more than just a silence of words. I am a very close person with my family and I would be significantly hurt if someone made me lose my connection with my parents. Its still there with the love but not being able to even have a conversation must really be terrible.

Discussion-

 I think in class we should talk about what it would mean to us if we had lost our capabilities to speak to our parents. Who would we be mad at? who would be at blame? As a child you dolt have many outlets to help you learn the language you're losing. I would personally hate the education system because if they made me lose that connection then they couldn't be forgiven. It is something that many of us probably haven't experienced, and I hope no-one has, but there are cases I am sure that people lost connection with family through language barriers. It would be cool seeing everyones take on this matter and what people think is wrong. How can we fix it and what solutions are there to help promote more youth learning English and their native tongue.

Zac Guglielmo
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Discussion in class

Kozol

I think that a great discussion point in class would be why do we think that Mott Haven is like this. Is there people who think the place is burdened with long term effects of their history or is it something simpler like lack of want to change. My personal opinion is both, I think people need to try harder to get out pf their situations their in but also its tough because when for generations before the only way of making money was selling drugs and being a prostitute then it is normal to follow in footsteps, even if those footsteps art great ones. I think that when you break it down it is obviously much more intense and a lot more factors but there is always different views.

I like how in class we discussed that the institute and individual are both at fault but one is hard to see if you're looking through a one way "lens". Its an argument that won't be settled because the institute promotes different things and the majority if the time the institute handcuffs the individual and makes their decisions bad or worse. Who wouldn't turn to drugs or sell their bodies to put food on the table for their children, at fault is definitely the individual but the bad promotion and lack there of help from the institute is also a massive fault for these results.

Kozol really shows us how awful Mott haven is. Imagine cockroaches and rats and no heat, sweating because no air conditioning. Everyone knows someone who has HIV and so many people on drugs. It is a very sad community and it needs help to become normal again. The impossible part if finding enough people outside of the community to actually care enough to promote change.

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Quotes

Kristof

Quote1 - “We have never been a nation of haves and have-nots"

This was the first line of kristof's piece and I strongly disagree with what he is saying. If you look at society as a whole we are essentially a country of have and have nots. Like we talk about in class all the time, institutional backlash is thethe individual cannot escape some situations. Not all situationsbut more often than not people are stuck in whatever class they'reborn into and thats a proven fact. A country of have and have nots is what we are, there are privileged wealthy people , middle class and then the lesser fortunate.Not everyone can be a have whether we like it or not but I think him saying this is ignorance and uneducated.

Quote 2- "Remember that disadvantage is less about income than environment"

I strongly agree with this quote because if you are born in a poor area and a place that there isn't much then I believe you can make a ton of money but not always escape out. I think that the burden of not being privilegd will always be on your shoulders. A wealthy black man will always be looked at differently by a racist, a female business owner won'tget a nod from a wealthy male business owner. I think the environment stands for more than just where you're raised but the work we live in and our social norms.Income can help in ways but you're usually always known for who you are , not for the number in your bank account.

Quote 3- " They grow up not in a “land of opportunity,” but in the kind of socially rigid hierarchies that our ancestors fled, the kind of society in which your outcome is largely determined by your beginning."

I agree with this also. It is relevant to the second quote because it is saying that the you are a product mostly of how you're raised and where you're raised. If you're raised in a wealthy family you're more opt to find yourself in a wealthy family in the future, freak cases you can break through your class barriers but people who start financially privileged in the beginning of their lives are definitely more opt to have better futures.