Summary Of Other People's Children By Lisa Delpit

In Lisa Delpit’s book Other People’s Children: Cultural Conflict in the Classroom depicts three main issues or controversies with teaching poor minority students, or being a black educator in a predominantly white field. How are white educators better suited to educate a minority, when they culturally do not understand nor take the time to understand their mannerisms and customs of other cultures? How education is racially divided, in seeing poor black students as less advantaged over their majority peers who may have more adequate opportunities at home. The first issue in this book sets up black education in America, poor black education. This education set up is meant to stifle in order to teach ‘proper’ writing and language skills. “However, writing process …show more content…
Black teachers, on the other hand, see the teaching skills to be essential to their students’ survival.” (Delpit 18) Black educators see that the current writing process is to teach fluency, and instead African-American students need the skills more so than the fluency over hyper-correction of their language. The controversy of this is that the advocates who set up our education systems are focused on the majority. Delpit talks about being in a poor black catholic school growing up, and how her teachers pushed to make students grammar “proper” according to Standard English. The undertones of this book are racially fueled from black educators as well as minority educators, who feel white mainstream America isn’t listening nor serving their communities at all. One important line that supports this idea is “not to assume that the voices of