Blog 7

"Creating an Anti-Racist Classroom"

In this article the author speaks about how unfair the minority is treated in a classroom.
 "there were 149 suspensions and expulsions for every 100 black students compared with 32 for every 100 white students." More kids who are black are getting written up more than white kids, There is a huge difference on how the teacher treat different students of color. Many teachers said that for white students they had an excuse for why they acted out. They have more compassion for the white students which is very unfair towards students of color. She wants to raise awareness to our own biases. She wants to make a classroom a place of equality and everyone has a chance. 

Then she list out 5 ways we can be a better teacher who treat our students equally.
The first step is not to ignore race. What she means by this is not "pretend that race doesn't exist or doesn't matter." We must not pretend that once race is not here, we must acknowledge that race and make it safe for them to be in the environment we created. And if things that comes up that talks about a race, we as educators must use the right words and "find positive language to acknowledge difference and to remind your students of all the ways they are similar". 
The second step is to find help from community centers, especially in neighborhood of color. That will assist us with our own biases.
Step 3 is about that we shouldn't assume things about people of colors, like if they are from a low-income family or first person in their family to get a higher education because that not always the case. We must respect were they come from and their culture.  
Step 4 is about reading more into other peoples culture to educate themselves, so they offend someone and their culture. As an educator we must know a bit of every culture so we can be respectful towards them. 
Step 5 is to be self-aware, we must know ourselves to improve ourselves. We must ask ourselves these hard questions that will make us uncomfortable. These questions will make us realize our biases and put ourselves on check.