Schools are a place where people of all different backgrounds can come together to get their education and meet people that are similar or different than them. It provides the opportunity to learn more about people and their backgrounds. Even though some are different they should not be treated differently. Schools have become a place where everyone is judged for who they are. In the case with the stories by Sherman Alexie and Robert Lake, they are describing the struggles that Indians face when it comes to their education. Indian education should be like any other education. However, sometimes they are not treated as fairly and are judged by the way they dress and act. In Alexie, Lake and Reay’s works, they help to support the problems and discrimination of Indians and their educations in schools and how this can affect their identity.
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She explains how “school norms, practices and expectations provide key symbolic that students draw on to make sense of their experience and define themselves” (Reay 277). She is showing how passionate and knowledgeable she is on how a child finds their identity. She is stating many facts of how a child will easily find their identity or struggle to find their identity. In Reay’s article, Youdell “argues that identity categories- of ‘race’, ethnicity, disability, class, gender, sexuality-become meaningful through interaction with other categories, and that these ‘constellations of categorizations’ may be seen as shifting and not necessary” (Reay 279). Although you may see where he’s coming from, a child needs to have interactions with other students that are different to be able to learn how to embrace each other’s differences. By doing this, it will help them to excel in their education and finding their
Indian education should be just like any other education that every child receives. When …show more content…
She explains how “school norms, practices and expectations provide key symbolic that students draw on to make sense of their experience and define themselves” (Reay 277). She is showing how passionate and knowledgeable she is on how a child finds their identity. She is stating many facts of how a child will easily find their identity or struggle to find their identity. In Reay’s article, Youdell “argues that identity categories- of ‘race’, ethnicity, disability, class, gender, sexuality-become meaningful through interaction with other categories, and that these ‘constellations of categorizations’ may be seen as shifting and not necessary” (Reay 279). Although you may see where he’s coming from, a child needs to have interactions with other students that are different to be able to learn how to embrace each other’s differences. By doing this, it will help them to excel in their education and finding their