Teresa Lopez

  Everything is worth learning. Everything that is thrown at you as a teacher or as an adult or child is worth learning and picking yourself up to not or do something different. As a teacher it’s our role to make our students feel safe, comfortable, included, and represented in our classroom. I think this is very important as a teacher because at the end of the day creating this setting is showing your students you value their time and space. I don’t believe all sides are being heard or taught in our education system. I believe that the laws and stuff being placed in the classroom isn’t allowing students to fully be successful. As a teacher it’s concerning to me because we can only go so far. My biggest fear as a future educator is not teaching or pushing hard enough for students to learn the harsh reality of history. If we continue to sugar coat this subject or ignore it, we as a society are creating a negative impact. From this module the thing that stood out was learning even by...

That’s an interesting question to start out my blog: why are schools still segregated? I think we as a society struggle especially when past generations pass down the same beliefs. It’s no longer a “tradition” when white people say “my family believes in” when it comes to people of color. Spreading hate is what our society does. Hate just from the color of your skin tone. From this week’s module hate started way long ago. The laws the government made just to make a person of color suffer is unbelievable. People have put a label on people of color. The labels being “aggressive” and “poor”. These labels that many teachers put on students, especially students of color. I believe schools are still segregated because people in higher places are still set in their old traditional beliefs. They don’t try to change the way they feel. Our government doesn’t try to achieve change when it comes to being more segregated. The government failed people of color and the education system. We are still ...