Tat's Diaries

 When we ask if schooling is equitable, we are really asking if schools are fair and provide equal opportunity. In order to understand equity it is important to know the difference between equity and equality. Equality is giving everyone the same thing in order to keep it fair, while Equity is giving everyone what they need to have the same opportunities. In my opinion, I feel like school is not equitable because almost all schools have some way of not having equal opportunity for all students. One of the biggest ones that I see is a lot of students miss out on things if they don't have money, and a lot of times that can be because of the social class someone is in or the background they come from. For instance if a student comes from a background of money or they play sports they have a better opportunity of getting accepted into colleges mostly with full-ride scholarships, unlike students who don't they often have to work extra extra hard to have full-ride scholarships to th...

 I truly feel that many of us never have the full picture. When we see people we only see what they look like on the outside, we don't see what they truly go through or what they are going through currently. In school we usually only have one side of a story, when there are multiple sides to every story. To get the full picture we have to be able to take the time to get to know that person or acknowledge all sides of the story, instead of judging a book by it's cover. When I was in grade school something that I loved about my 9th grade history teacher, is that she always provided us with multiple points of view from all kinds of people, on history topics that we discussed, and made it easy for us to understand that there is more than one side than just the "white man's" side, she had showed me stories from African American survivors that I had never heard about, until being in her class. As a future teacher, when it comes to my students learning I will definitely ...

  When we talk about a marginalized person, it is important to know what that word really means. A marginalized person is someone who experiences discrimination or is treated as insignificant because of the way they identify or are identified. That student is someone who may come from a low-income background, identifies as an lgbtqa+, disabled, identifies as an ESL student, or is even racially minoritized. With being a marginalized student, there are many different difficulties they may face. It shouldn’t even be an issue because no one should ever have to feel like they are less than; because of who a person is or the way that they identify themselves. There are many preconceived ideas of how someone is based off of the way someone is identified, and that will often be the reason someone judges somebody, before they even get to know that person as who they are.  As a future educator I would want to provide multiple points of view with readings and stories so that my students ...