Blog Number 2

The article read this week was "The Silenced Dialogue" by Lisa Delpit. And for this reading I chose to do the extended comments option for this blog. I am using Carolines blog as the center o my own. 

Caroline starts her post strong by explaining what she noticed and thought right away. Caroline explains that she feels what teachers don't want to listen to what black teachers and students have to say about improving certain things. Caroline adds a quote that really does speak to me... "I jut try to shut them out so I can hold my temper". Caroline makes a good point after this quote by saying how she would think that all of the staff and faculty would want to come together and do what is right fir the children. I agree so much with what Caroline is saying, I feel school system should be looked at as a safe space for children, it is not about what color skin someone had but it is about the learning environment for the children. Personally, as someone who had wanted to become a teacher ever since I was younger, this sits deep with me because some staff and teachers do not look at it as it is a place where ALL children, no matter the skin color, should all learn the same, and that is sad to me. Caroline goes on to take about the 5 aspects of "culture of power". The first one Caroline mentioned is "Issues of power are enacted in the classroom", the point of thesis that the teachers in a classroom have the power over the children, school is preparing students for real world jobs. Caroline explains how the type of job a person has determines their economic status, which in hands can determine the amount of power that person has. The second aspect she mentions is "There are codes and rules for participating in powered how there is a culture of power". It is explained in her blog that the codes and rules mentioned are relating to linguistic forms, communicative strategies, and presentation of self. The third aspect that is mentioned is "the rules of the culture of power are a reflection of the rules of culture of those who have power". Caroline explains how success and institutions like school and work is predicted upon acquisition of the culture of those who have power. She goes on to say add that children in a middle class tend to do better in school than children from a lower class, I agree I feel like schools sometimes tend to focus on the uppercases doing better, as they see they might "go further in life with certain jobs". Not that teachers mean to do this, but I feel it should be fixed. The last aspect Caroline talks about is "those with power are frequently less aware or least-willing to acknowledge its existence". So, in this case this means that the white teachers and instructors do not receive themselves to have power over the black teachers, though the black teachers and instructors may disagree because they are looking at it through a different perspective of course! 

I think Caroline did very well in this assignment, I feel she explained each aspect very well, and added lots of examples to each of them. She also ended the blog very well by adding how these aspects of power are issues in culture that need to be fixed.