Literacy with an attitude (blog #7)

 Literacy with an attitude

Patrick J. Finn

The School system

Extended comment

For this blog, I will be using jackeline’s blog as the center of mine. In her post she mentions “In the other hand, there are people from low class like I mentioned before they are treated with indifference because they do not have the necessary tools at school.”  I agree with Jackeline’s quote. I think that lower and working-class public schools are often viewed as the “bad schools” and because of that, the students receive indifferent treatment, and the affluent professional school are the “good schools” because they receive proper funding.  We not only see this type of treatment of indifference at school with students, but we also see this outside of schools, like the workplace or public spaces. But why are these people being treated in such a way? The only thing I could think of was the culture of power. The people in the affluent professional schools have children and teachers who come from the culture of power, where they (the students)  have it easier than other kids who attent a lower/middle-class school. She also mentions “He is also trying to say that teachers are the ones who can change this, because literacy is not just learning/teaching how to write or read, it is advocating students for a better education.” I agree that teachers have the power to change the lives of the school or students. I believe that a teacher should care about students and push them toward success, not failure. In the reading, we can see that the teachers in the lower-class schools, the teacher makes no effort to make a change in their student's life or to push them to learn because they say the students “are lazy.” The life of a classroom from from the teacher, not the school.