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 Other People's Children 

Lisa Delpit

Argument 

    Lisa Delpit is a teacher who wrote 3 articles, 2 of them being published by Harvard on her teaching experience.In her argument she  speaks about how there needs to be more multiverse cultural teaching staff. Which I agree with, having more diverse teachers from different cultures and backgrounds will be good for students and encourage them to explore theirs. She opens up and speaks from her own experience having difficulty teaching a language in a mixed language classroom. She mentions instead of students seeing their mixed culture as a weakness to prevent them from learning on the same level but she has the mindset to use it as an asset,Implementing all Lisa learned from her college studies the mixed students made progress but still lacked significantly. The school deemed rap lyrics and jump rope chants not language skills and told students not to practice them. Once again Lisa saw the wrong in this teaching and focused on skills through creative thinking meaning even cultural background. She includes the teaching experience from three teachers. The first and two really spoke to me, with the first being an African American graduate student teaching in a special needs classroom in a primary black area. The white folks in the school district were always closed off when discussing black history and black education. The third teaching experience comes from a native american woman from alaska and all her ideas and comments about the teaching styles were dismissed by the school. Delpit mentions how the Public School Curriculum was created by White Middle Class philosophy were the powerful stays in power. She says that teachers need to encourage students to not adopt the dominant culture to change wrong with mixed education. No culture is wrong and shouldn’t be taught and can’t be denied. So yes there should be more mulit-verse cultural teaching staff at schools, and less with middle class white philosophy mindset and extend some curricums to further scopes.

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