Re: Diverse students need diverse teachers
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Originally Posted by AF
Diverse students need diverse teachers
By Jerrold H. Jensen
02/16/08 00:00:00
Does race matter in teaching? I don't know. But every one of us can probably identify teachers who were role models for us -- the odds are they looked and sounded a lot like us, too. No doubt many teachers can inspire the children of immigrants, but perhaps we don't have enough of them. Perhaps what we really need are more teachers who were, themselves, children of immigrants, who can relate to and motivate the kids we are losing.
This is the biggest bunch of racist BS I have seen. Diverse teachers? I had NO teachers who were roll models for me. They were teachers. I had two perfectly good roll models at home called parents. My parents pushed me to succeed and do well in school. Something "immigrant parents" don't seem to do.
Teaching in a school probably just like the one in Fresno I see the problem every day. When we grew up our parents sacrificed to make sure that we had a better chance in life that they had. All they wanted was for us to grow up and have more opportunities.
Most all of the so called "immigrant" children I teach every day have parents with a completely different attitude. They feel if it was good enough for them it is damn sure good enough for their kids. None of them had and education and did just fine so why should their kids worry about an education. Even more of them seem to have kids only so they can drop out of school and go to work and help put material things in the house.
Diversity in teaching? Those of us who teach don't see color, we see butts in the chairs and hope they came ready to learn. It doesn't matter what color a teacher is or where they came from as long as the kid is there to learn.
In these cases, most of the kids come to school 1-2 hours late, bring no materials to learn with and wouldn't do home work if you begged them. The miss Monday, like papa missed work. The miss Friday because they learned to miss from papa or momma. They also take off every time they don't feel like working or papa needs them to help him with his work.
At the school I work at, we have about 85, 16-18 year old girls who are in our pregnancy related services. This is all that are allowed because
the district only provides one teacher. We probably have triple that who are not getting the services. Now, what happened to parenting? Why are so many of these little girls allowed to get pregnant and nothing is done. Usually the boy responsible moves in with the parents of the girl he knocked up. One happy family......only because in the Mexican culture getting pregnant at this age by even an adult, is ok.
These loud mouth liberal racists can whine all they want about diversity. This is a completely different culture we are dealing with and without help from home no amount of diversity is going to change anything.
How many times have I seen Mexican parents called to a teacher meeting and during this meeting the child is allowed to yell at the teacher and use profanity. All while the parent does nothing. Obviously this culture we deal with every day does not share the same ethics and values we have and this problem not going to change.