Blog #3 1400

 

While listening to the problem we all live with and  the little girl talk about the honor roll breakfast she was supposed to attend and get an award but wasn’t mention  got me to think about my experience I face  during elementary and middle school when I  lived in Dubuque IA. We had a normal routine every morning in school, when we first made it to our  class we had to wait until all the morning announcement were over before starting the day. During these morning announcement we were to stand up while doing the pledge of an alliance. Then they would begin with talking about school activity that were happening for the day. After that was all done it was time for the birthdays for the day.  This was something I look forward to because I always like see if people shared the same birthday with me or anybody I knew. On October 8 2006 I was waiting for them to say all the birthdays for the day but they didn’t they only mention on little girl and that wasn’t me for me this made me feel as if my birthday wasn’t important like everybody else. When I told my teacher they didn’t mention my birthday she ask me was a sure today was my birthday then look it up in the system but did nothing else about it.

During my middle year is when my mom started to noticed the school was treating me and my younger sister unfairly. I feel it had a lot to do with us being African American and a majority white state. There were know teacher of color in this entire school there have been time I going suspend for doing this I seen some of my white friends did with no consequences at all happening to them. One good thing I liked about going to school in Iowa was that the teacher I had treated all the students equally. They took the time out to help make sure everybody understood the material before moving on. I feel like from the bottom of my heart they really became teachers to help the student and not in this career for a pay check and I think do a really good job of prepare student for the future.