Conflicts Depicted In The Book Other People's Children

In Lisa Delpit’s book “Other People’s Children” there was many conflicts mentioned throughout the chapters. One that really stood out to me was the idea of standards and believing in each child the same no matter what gender, race, or culture. That is something I will do as a teacher and it is also really important in the success of each student. In the introduction scene one there was an interacting between Lisa and a young teacher named Carolyn about a black student in her kindergarten class whose name was Anthony. He was from the projects and she was not used to students on color of different background in her classroom. Carolyn made some assuming statements about the child she barley knew. She said, “he as trouble sitting in class, that he was not …show more content…
23). By judging and assuming these ideas about Anthony just puts a cloud over him. Now she will not have the same standards for him compared to other students. Without even working with him and trying to help him she set standards that will be hard to break. I firmly believe that all students should not be judged and should be able to show their teachers their potential before being arbitrated. Another issue I noticed in the book was the potential language barrier between students and the teacher. Delpit states “…children often have a remarkable ability to discern and identify different codes in different settings” (Delpit 2006 p. 48). Language diversity is a real role that teachers will face in the classroom. There will be many language diverse students that come in contact with teachers. The development of the range of linguistic options that students have is wide spread and varied. Teachers trying to correct their students to pronounce correctly in their mind many leave a bitter taste in the student’s mouth about them and think they