The Other 3 R’s

 

Some of the fascinating quotes that struck me were said by Gary Orfield, “After the great recession, black families have 1/19% of wealth, Latino have 1/16% and many black Latino families have no wealth…We have to prepare students and we have to make it financially possible for students to go to college…” It’s true, but there’s also those who have low incomes and have high rates of help from the government. Whereas, those who are white with a good income, like a friend of mine; have to pay for their education because they were not qualified to receive higher financial help. It’s quite stressful, when students have to work to pay for their education and those who have low income don’t. I believe it should be even out between both working classes and the education field. Another quote I found interesting was stated by Michael Lomax, who said “High performing low income student of color have a 1/10 chance of going to college and a moderate high income student not of color have a 90 % chance. That might suggest that race still matter...” Relating to our class FNED 346, race is a big deal in the education field. Many students could not make it to college because something probably happened to them before college. It could possibly be that they were put into low level classes which also bring them down.

Relating to our education field, Michael Lomax said, “…K-12 Common Core alternative approaches certification into coming into the profession with charters school…” which relates to Gary Orfield’s quote where he stated, “It is much better to have 1 or 2 pretty good test than 50 crummy ones, much better for students to focus on advanced skills so that I can teach them in college rather than have them recite things… You should not be tested on things you haven’t learned, that’s immoral… you shouldn’t be tested on something disrespecting your language and background… Language matters a lot in the society…” I agree with Gary’s statement about language, and language matters a lot in the society. Just because a test scores tells that the student didn’t reach the required score doesn’t mean that they are not smart enough, doesn’t have the skills to graduate, but it means that they are just in a different level and probably is smarter than you think they are. An example is myself, I came to the US when I was five and my whole family is a Hmong speaking language. I was listed as a slow learner but what they don’t know is that I know how to cook, clean, garden, babysit, and I speak two languages by the age of 12.