Whose stories are told and whose stories remain in the margins?

 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 can have multiple sides of a story, when they are learning about historic events and even current events, so that there aren’t any preconceived notions, and everyone feels comfortable and included. I want to ensure I raise awareness for equality in my classroom.