Cesar Chaves Elementary School Summary

This book did not really hit home for me until I went to Cesar Chaves Elementary School. I saw first hand how evident these ideas of “playing school” and holding students back from expressing their cultural identity. This belittles the student in the classroom, telling them that their culture is not as important as “white culture” creating a bigger divide between students and the administration team of schools. To help bridge that gap, students should have a safe place to practice their first learned language in some way in the classroom.
Irizarry brings up that teachers are in charge of the rules in the classroom but sometimes the principal might put in place the “only English” rule, making the teacher look like the bad guy. In this case