As discussion director I think there are two lines that really send the message of this chapter and this text home to us as future educators.
"Educators may even believe that color blindness is the way to teach tolerance. However, it is recommended that acknowledging and celebrating differences helps to eliminate stereotyping in classrooms."
Being color blind...can be a lot like being silent as we talked about in class last week. It is a way of ignoring the differences which are very clear and visible to the students.
Had Peley and Raji been given time to talk about their cultures AND felt secure to do so, that their shared information would be accepted and not ridiculed, they could have shared another part of the world with the class. We are increasingly a global society as technology makes our world smaller each day. Sharing worldly interests and differences/similarities was a really sadly missed learning opportunity in Mrs. Starr's classroom.
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