As Soon As She Opens Her Mouth Summary

The artile I was assigned entitled “As soon as she opens her mouth!” Was an extremely interesting and eye-opening article to have to read. It dealt with the subject of people’s assumptions of intelligence based on stereotyping was social class. In particular it dealt with a young boy named Danny and his parents. Both his mother and father were illiterate, unable to read or write because they were never pushed in school and ended up dropping out before graduation. This is not because they didn’t want to learn, but because of their deep southern accent or what many people think of as a hillbilly accent they didn’t have a teacher educational system that believed in. They assume that because they were from the country then surely they must be simple and unintelligent. …show more content…
Despite the fact that his mother wanted better for Danny and tried to convince his teachers and the staff at his school to hold him back because he was not ready to move on her words fell on deaf ears. They sent home notes complaining about Danny’s lack of progress, despite the fact that Jenny Danny’s mother had notified the school many times that neither her or her husband could read and to call and not send notes home. On top of this despite asking repeatedly for her son to be held back in the second grade he was pushed through into third. However, it was during this time that someone finally noticed that he was not ready for the third grade and that his reading skills were not improving. Eventually after the author of this article herself got involved and requested a meeting with the principal, the school board stepped up and moved Danny back into the second grade and began to gave him the intention necessary for him to