homework 51 "paper "

Bryanna Wright 4-26-10
11-D4

School is a place that has been around for many of years. Teaching us how to read and write, as well as teaching us math, science, history and english. But in my 11 years of going to school I never learned why African American’s never really graduate from high school compare to Caucasians. And why that is mostly African American boys are the ones that really don’t graduate were as African American girls are but still are not at much as Caucasians. Why is that most of African Americans boys want to always be a rapper or and basketball player? Being an African American I decided to researchand find out why.
From reading the article “AFRICAN AMERICANS AND EDUCATION” almost all of African Americans are more likely to attend high-poverty schools that is, public where more than 75 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch1 and are less likely to graduate from high
school and attend college at rates lower than any other racial group. In 2006-07 16 percent (7.7 million) of all elementary and secondary public school students went to a high-poverty school. A total of 33 precent of African Africans went to high-proverty shcool where as 4 percent of Caucasian kids. In the city 10 percent of Caucasian kids went to high-poverty school where as 46 percent of African Africans kids. And the drop out rates are kind of the same, in one year 6.9 of Caucasian drop out and 13.1 of African Americans drop out. Out of all the racial groups, African Americans are most likely to go to a school that does not have AP classses. There is 19 percent of African American students attending these kind of schools schools, compared to only 6 percent of Asian, 12 percent of Latino, and 15 percent of Caucasian students.
In 2005-06 less than half of all African American male students received diplomas. The rate at which African American males are dropping out and being placed in special education was far more outstanding then the rate at which they are graduating and reaching high levels of academic achievement. For that year the graduation rate was 47 percent. New York has three of the 10 districts that have the lowest graduation rates for African American males. Compared to New Jersey and Arizona where ther graduation rates for their malethat are African American close to, or higher than, the national average graduation rate for Caucasian, Latino male students. If you go the this website (http://www.naacp.org/advocacy/education/African_Americans_and_Education_092809.pdf) you can see the “State-by-State Graduation Rates for African American Male Students. Race and family income is a high reason on whether a student immediately enrolls in college. College enrollment rate for 2007 was 70 percent for white high school graduates and 61 percent for Latino high school graduates, compared with 56 percent for African American high school graduates.

I also read “Hispanic And Black High School Graduation Rates Very Low” February 26, 2004 more then half of Black, Hispanic and Native American young teens are being held back before graduation. According to reports , “while 75 percent of white students graduated from high school in 2001, only 50 percent of all Black students, 51 percent of Native American students, and 53 percent of all Hispanic students got a high school diploma in the same year. The study found that the problem was even worse for Black, Native American, and Hispanic young men at 43 percent, 47 percent, and 48 percent, respectively.” As you can see African Americans has the lowest number and from the othe articles I have read it is not just in one case. They have the lowest rate year after year after year. And there is nothing that seems to be done, African Americans and mosly boys are falling through the crack that can be stopped be will take so time. Because of them not finishing school or graduate late African American boys want to take the easy way out and become a rapper or a baketball player. If we could come together and find a way to get African American the chance to take AP classes and the chance to go to college and the chance to see that there are alot of things out there from them to do then we could raise the rate so that more grauate instead of more dropping out.

Homework 49

From watching section 1 video it looks like they had the idea that the teacher has no control over the class and that the students run things and that the teacher is trying to get them. It looks like they teacher is trying them to really connect with each other but they could care less. They are on their phones and that play fighting.
I also think that from looking at their video its like that other movies that we have be watching in class. It shows how on the first day they not listening and they don't want to do what the teacher says. But then on the second day they are listening to him and have their notebooks outs.
I think that when doing a movie about school there will never be a really differences in how they look. I think that no matter what is going on in the background there was always be the say look on it. The look that students are monsters that do not listen that will never get far in life.

homework 50

Gatto
Gatto is talk about what he has found school to be. About how he thinks that schoolteaching is wrapped up into 6 lessons that teaches students to become and realize their role in life. The idea that there are classes above and below us. That we are scared to try and reach that higher level classes but work hard enough so that we are not placed in the lower level class. To think that if we have a higher education we will get the better good. And we never really notice the difference in life because we rush through things so that we can get to the next step. And we really have no really say over our own lifes. That someone else is always making our decisions for us.

I feel that what he is saying is true. In life we go through not really thinking about why we want to get to the next step all we think about is who else is going to be on that step and how does that make me look. We try so hard to think that we run our lifes when the truth is that everyone else controls us. For a while it is your parents, then it is your teachers, then your boss, friends, emenies. And we are so busy try to prove that we control our selves and get to the next step that we do not sit and realize that things are different, and that we never really learned something for us but everyone else.

Freire
Freire talks about the relationship between the teacher and the student. He also talks about how there is a banking concept of education, and that in the banking concept of education knowledge is the key. That "knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing." And that this concepts are in teaching as well as in the banking education:
(a) the teacher teaches and the students are taught;

(b) the teacher knows everything and the students know nothing;

(c) the teacher thinks and the students are thought about;

(d) the teacher talks and the students listen — meekly;

(e) the teacher disciplines and the students are disciplined;

(f) the teacher chooses and enforces his choice, and the students comply;

(g) the teacher acts and the students have the illusion of acting through the action of the teacher;

(h) the teacher chooses the program content, and the students (who were not consulted) adapt to it;

(i) the teacher confuses the authority of knowledge with his or her own professional authority, which she and he sets in opposition to the freedom of the students;

(j) the teacher is the Subject of the learning process, while


I feel that in ways this is true but not right. A student should learn from their teachers as well as teachers should learn their students. Just because you have knowledge on something does not mean you can't learn more about that topic or in life. Nor do I feel that "knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing." I feel that by saying that you think that because you have knowledge on something you are better then someone who doesn't which is never true.

Delpit
She is talking about how African Americans don't go far in school. That as parents and teachers we are not aware of kids not really knowing what they should now, and when we do find out it is to late to really help them without holding them back in life. that we must all be there ofr each other and that we must work together to get the the next step. She also talks about how she tries different ways to help them learn with out holding the other students back.

I feel that as a African American there is lot of us not really learning and not really doing what we have to do to make it in life. we always do things that let us just make it or just sliding by. I also feel that there is no really way to have to students that are on 2 different levels in the same class to really learn. Because the student that is a head will feel like he is being pulled back while the student that is behind will feel like they are get rush to do stuff. I also feel that as an African American we do need more teachers and parents to really be around to help us get to the place that we need to be.

Copland
Copland was talking about how he never saw a difference in how andy teaches to how he teaches.He feels that in a way they are both teaching us the same thing but are going about it in different ways. He talked about how we should be taught immanence and transcendence. That we should be taught about the past and the future. And that he teaches to show that even though we are different we are really the same. And last that he feels as teacher he is always learning and that he teaches his students as well as as learn from them.

I feel that what Copland was saying was something that I feel that not every teachers says but all the teachers at SOF say. I feel that in SOF teachers try to teach us so that we do go far in life and so that we are not lost people like everyone makes us seem. I feel that as a teacher he really tries to get to his students with out coming off as if he is saving them.

Homework 48

I think that the story should be about one student that a rough home life and to come to school to get a better education to they they could go far in life and never have to live the same way again. But she has friends that different then her. They have a good household, and when they are finish with school they have a job in their family business, so they go to school and not really learn. And they try to get Marshai to be like them.

At first she doesn't she does what she has to do to get by in school but at the same time do things so that her friends do not call her lame, loser or nerd. Then in the middle of the year she gets tired of her friends always making fun of her and being known as the smart ass. So she acts up and gets in to a lot of trouble. The teacher sees that this students and doesn't see why she is changing and why no one at home is talking to her to her to get her act together.

So the teacher is a male that is African American that show her that here are African Americans that do go far in life and that are African American man that around and care about their kids and students and other people. And with all this she starts to realize that she could have friends that would find cool for being smart, and that she could make something of her and go far in life unlike her family.

The Extra Credit

I was not hear to see the movie due to the fact that i was in Egypt, but from looking it up and reading about and watching a little trailer of it on the internet I have a feeling that it is mostly like the other movies we have been watching with maybe a little bit of changes and/or a little bit of a different view on some of the things.

2. I think that it is always 50-50 when it come to teachers and students. As student you should know when you are not getting something and should keep asking for help until you really get what is going on in that class. And then there are teachers who really should not be teaching because they really don't know how to teach in different ways so that they can reach all students.But like I said I feel like this movie was just like the other movies we have watch with a little bit of changes but for the most part I feel that Souleymane was not doing what he had to do and was the one from holding the class back from really learning what they could learn. So I fell that the students and even more Souleymane should have tried to see where this teacher was coming from.

3.Compared to the movie SOF has:
1.Students that make it hard for others to learn
2.Teachers that feel they can make a different
3.Teachers that just come to work because they have to
4.Students thatreally want to learn but scared to show they care about school.

Contrast to the movie SOF doesn't have:
1. Students fighting with the teachers
We can find a way to help those who want to be helped.