Blog 9

Hannah Bontrager
Prof. Schurman
11 February 2012
Blog 9

You were right, these readings did take longer! I enjoyed them all the same, however. I was amazed at the stories where teachers allowed students to fail. How as an educator can you sit by and have 99% of your class succeed and allow one or two of your students to lag behind and fail? That will only make further learning harder and more frustrating for them! Not to mention that, most likely they will "hate" learning because of the poor foundation that was laid for them. Another astonishing fact that I read about was how students who are raised in low-income households are not really "learning" about reading and writing. Students in middle-class homes at lease come in with concepts and understandings about reading and writing whereas poor students do not. This was heartbreaking to me, just because of their social standing, students should not be deprived of learning. That should be a wake up call to teachers to make sure that ever student in their class is given the same opportunity, if not in the world, at least in your classroom to learn. No matter where a student comes from, they will thrive when pushed and be more excited to succeed when they think someone believes in them. And as their teacher, you may be the only person they have that truly cares and believes in them. That should be the reason you love what you do. You became a teacher for a reason, to help students, no matter what their background, to succeed and learn. So teach.