Saturday, December 8, 2012
Week 6 Blog: Personal Side of Prejudices, and Oppression
Personal Side of Prejudices, and Oppression
I had a child in my classroom that did like black people. I was picking up on things she said to the black children in the classroom. One day we were in the bathroom she told a black child that she did not like her skin color because it was not like her. Some the child came over to me and said Mr. Patty she hurt my feeling I asked her what wrong with you sweet heart she said that the child over said that she did not like my skin color and it was not like mine. So I walk over to her and said sweet that is not nice to say to your classmate and she said it again. So I took her to the teacher that was working with me and she is white but she have a tan color like brown skin people and she put her skin to the child and said what color is my skin she said it dark the teacher said that you do not like me either she said I did not say you I say her. So we called her parents and told them what she said and her father said that she heard her mom said that about the children she work with at her school. I think that she was taught that because we had other issue in the classroom with her. We try some of everything to help her with these issues but it did not work so we had to deal with it until the end of school.
I think that her mom might did say things like that around her because children hear a lot of thing at home when parents are talking. I did not judge her because she said though things I just tried to help her work on some of thing she say to children and adult. I hope she do not grow up with prejudice in her. I want her to get help on the ways she talks to black children. It made me feel that her mom do not like black people and that is very sad. The way she talks to us with her nose in the air and rolling her eyes at people. I say to the parent if you are talking about your job please make sure that your child is not around when you talk about the children in your classroom because your child come to school and tell us what you say about your child.
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4 comments:
Your example is a reminder that children are listening to us when we speak, whether we want them to hear us or not. It would be ideal if we never spoke biased words for them to overhear, but that may be impossible in light of the cultural biases we've learned about in class. At a minimum, we can remind ourselves to filter our conversations at the dinner table, or when their little ears are close by, as you suggested to the parent.
Children are listening to us whether we want them to or not. We would be wise to do as you suggested and remember to filter our conversations when little ears are around, or better yet, work to erase the bias feelings we may have.
Chiquela,
I think your approach was good and you did everything you could about the girl's behavior. It is probably true that at that age children are influenced by their parents, and basically bring their parents' bias and prejudices with them.
Chequela,
All I can say is my goodness. i guess with this incident we can see how much of a stronghold predjudice has on this country. When attittudes that the parents have directly affect how the child thinks and behaves in school, we educators do need more diversity training and learning methods to deal with issues such as what you have had to deal with.
you handled this with much grace!
Sheila Lee
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