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Denton Elementary is a small school near the heart of Lansing. The school itself is in pretty nice shape. It is newly painted thanks to the teachers. One of the local hardware stores donated the paint and in the summer the teachers came in and repainted the whole interior of the building. The children are from a lot of different backgrounds. The school has one hundred and seventy-five children, from grades kindergarten through third (School Directory, 2015). Forty-six percent of the school is made up of Caucasian students. The student to teacher ratio is 14 to one (School Directory, 2015). The diversity in the school was neat to see. The elementary I attended was ninety percent white, so it was nice to see all the students from different backgrounds playing together. The little girl that I worked with was white, but there was a wide array of races represented in the program. One of my fellow tutors had a little boy who spoke Spanish at home and sometimes at the end of the sessions they would discuss what they learned in Spanish.
I worked with a program called ‘Read to Succeed’. Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon for an hour, I would work with the same little girl. We would read books, practice writing, and learn …show more content…
When we first learned about Bobbie Harro’s Cycle of socialization I didn’t quite believe the dynamic of power that exists in education. Schools are given less to work with when the students come from lower classes. Most of the parents have less power than those with more money, so these children are overlooked and left out. Harro says that “…we need education for critical consciousness….” (Harro, 2000, 29). Without the proper education of all, we cannot advance as a society. We have statistics that prove these urban children are being given less to work with, even though they need more help than others (Ushomirsky, 2015). Read to succeed breaks this continuing cycle of
Denton Elementary is a small school near the heart of Lansing. The school itself is in pretty nice shape. It is newly painted thanks to the teachers. One of the local hardware stores donated the paint and in the summer the teachers came in and repainted the whole interior of the building. The children are from a lot of different backgrounds. The school has one hundred and seventy-five children, from grades kindergarten through third (School Directory, 2015). Forty-six percent of the school is made up of Caucasian students. The student to teacher ratio is 14 to one (School Directory, 2015). The diversity in the school was neat to see. The elementary I attended was ninety percent white, so it was nice to see all the students from different backgrounds playing together. The little girl that I worked with was white, but there was a wide array of races represented in the program. One of my fellow tutors had a little boy who spoke Spanish at home and sometimes at the end of the sessions they would discuss what they learned in Spanish.
I worked with a program called ‘Read to Succeed’. Every Tuesday and Thursday afternoon for an hour, I would work with the same little girl. We would read books, practice writing, and learn …show more content…
When we first learned about Bobbie Harro’s Cycle of socialization I didn’t quite believe the dynamic of power that exists in education. Schools are given less to work with when the students come from lower classes. Most of the parents have less power than those with more money, so these children are overlooked and left out. Harro says that “…we need education for critical consciousness….” (Harro, 2000, 29). Without the proper education of all, we cannot advance as a society. We have statistics that prove these urban children are being given less to work with, even though they need more help than others (Ushomirsky, 2015). Read to succeed breaks this continuing cycle of