The first issue that marginalization/oppression causes is for students to miss out on education.From feeling so marginalized/oppressed from fellow classmates and teachers students will slack off in school to either avoid the bullying that they’ve been getting or lack in faith that they are able to do well in school.Luna and Revilla authors of “Understanding Latina/o School Pushout:Experiences of Students Who Left School Before Graduating”talk about how schools who are in low-income areas had unequal funding,Luna and Revilla claim”Racial microaggressions can have a tremendous impact on students’ motivation and ability to persist in school”(29).Students have left school all do to the discrimination they have faced in a place they were suppose to be educated and prepared for the next step.Teachers marginalizing students by not helping and basically just trying to take them out.Another way it affected students learning is them going to school to try to avoid the bullying they’ve been facing with fellow students.michael SSchere author of “Battle of the Bathroom”talks about students trying to overcome their gender identity and how they would face oppression when it came to picking which bathroom was appropriate in their minds.Fellow peers would be calling them bad names,Stevenson says that”Gavin Grimm then a sophomore to use the boys’ room at his request.Labeled a girl at birth,he identifies as a boy…’People would get confused,or they’d walk behind me and think they had stepped …show more content…
Bryan Stevenson professor of law at the NYU Law School, author of “Just Mercy” talks about one of his cases and how greatly it had affected him.A man named Walter who had been falsely accused of murder and sentenced to death row had been free because, Stevenson worked his case and proved his innocence.Walter had been so oppressed and mentally been traumatized from the case and being in prison,he was diagnosed with dementia.Stevenson implies “He lost a lot of weight and became less and less responsive to visitors after returning home from the hospitsl”(first page of epilogue)Walter had dealt with and seen so much his mind couldn’t processes it and it literally broke him.He couldn’t even respond to visitors which goes to my next source, Luna and Revilla authors of “Understanding Laina/o School Pushout”implies that “Latina/o youth are more likely to suffer from mental health issues...frequently these issues are more likely to go untreated…”(34).oppressors go above and beyond to marginalize people who are less fortunate then they are and take advantange of it not caring what issues will cause for that person.Its serious that words can affect someone so much to the point where their health is in jeopardy.If someone words/actions can affect someone