Ruby Payne's A Framework For Understanding Poverty

When I look at how I perceived diversity before this class I feel that I am forced to see how unaware I truly was. I would talk about situations like I knew what was going on but what I did not realize was that I was looking at all diversity issues through blinders. I remember a situation where I was talking to my coworkers about a commercial for an all-black dance group and how they were going to tell their story from slavery forward. I said something like how dare they, if an all-white group did something like that we would be ridiculed for it. When asked what should be done about the issues about diversity in my career field specifically I could only go off what I knew, which was not a lot, and my answer was coming from an uneducated and ignorant person. Another thing I was not seeing clearly was poverty and the effects of it to not only students but every person that was in contact with it. I often thought to myself your life is what you make …show more content…
In this book she tries to get teachers to understand how poverty and a student’s background can play such a huge role in students behavior and understanding in school. Payne talks about how all people from different class status’s have different hidden rules, and by not understanding each other’s hidden rules we are unable to see why someone acts the way the do. The critical analysis of Payne’s book point out what they feel is statistically wrong and then follow that up with the statistical proof. They address what they think are actual truths about poverty and what they feel are just Payne’s opinions. I do see that in some parts of her book she puts in her opinion instead of just facts, but a criticism does just the same. I feel that Payne’s book opens up a different way to understand children, this book to me was very eye opening to the multiple ways we are all