Honestly, I do not want to become a teacher what so ever. I have always been frustrated with the American school system, and have always seen more wrong than good. For instance, it frustrates me to no end what we focus on in schools: we no longer focus on the basics of life and how students will grow to interact with their environments, succeeding on what is already built around them. No, instead we now focus on standardized tests, and our jobs now literally depend on how our students pass these tests. We are lacking greatly as a country in the world when it comes to education.
When I become a teacher, because I really have no other choice right now, I intend to go back to my roots in Oklahoma and teach at an Indian school, fighting for better education for them and my future children. It is not their fault that they were born Native. As a born Native child, if the blood percentage is enough, they are automatically carded. This is basically the government’s way of “recognizing” who is really Native and who is not. This is by no means a GOOD thing. In all, as we have the lowest …show more content…
I understand that there was plenty of racism and discrimination against this particular group of people, but there has been plenty of racism and discrimination against other groups of people that we no longer even teach about in schools. What about the treatment of Asian Americans throughout American history, or Irish Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans? Interesting fact that I learned from my younger brother and not my history book is that he was taught all about certain parts of history, but wasn’t even aware as to what the Trail of Tears even was – he didn’t even know about the mass genocide of his own
When I become a teacher, because I really have no other choice right now, I intend to go back to my roots in Oklahoma and teach at an Indian school, fighting for better education for them and my future children. It is not their fault that they were born Native. As a born Native child, if the blood percentage is enough, they are automatically carded. This is basically the government’s way of “recognizing” who is really Native and who is not. This is by no means a GOOD thing. In all, as we have the lowest …show more content…
I understand that there was plenty of racism and discrimination against this particular group of people, but there has been plenty of racism and discrimination against other groups of people that we no longer even teach about in schools. What about the treatment of Asian Americans throughout American history, or Irish Americans, Hispanic/Latino Americans? Interesting fact that I learned from my younger brother and not my history book is that he was taught all about certain parts of history, but wasn’t even aware as to what the Trail of Tears even was – he didn’t even know about the mass genocide of his own