"Wassup" or "Hey, how are you doing?"
After reading the one primary and two secondary sources I am
split between the two. After hearing the primary source I thought to myself
"Hell yea, that's what we need!” But after hearing the two secondary
sources they changed my mind a lot.
I want to be for the side in favor of freedom of expression
and being proud of your native tongue, but there are some difficulties that go
along with that. Like one of the blog's I read had had to do with bilingual
classes as a kid. My brother was enrolled in those same classes from K-8th grade.
Yes, my brother can speak my native tongue, and yes that is a tool that can
really help him, but I see how it has hurt him.
In high school I seen him struggle in English classes,
messing up on all of the minor things that shouldn't be a problem he would mess
up on. It sucks because I would see he would get frustrated and discouraged by
this, and he would fail these classes because it tore his self-esteem up. If we
were to write in our discourse this could happen to everyone!
What about the whites who's only language is English; we
would be learning Spanish, Chinese, and French and they would just be
strengthening their English. We would take steps back because now our English
would be weak while theirs is real strong. This would give them a real big advantage!
We already have a big academic achievement gap; I would not want to make that
gap even bigger! That's not what we want; we want to make that gap smaller!
The one thing I can say is that I wish that I spoke more in
my discourse. I am full Mexican and I cannot speak Spanish. This is something
that always comes back to bite me. I hate that I am such an outcast when it
comes to this, I would love to learn and I feel the need to. So I would say,
never forget your roots or culture, always stay in touch with that! Yes I
believe that we should speak and formally for school, but always practice and
improve your native tongue. Don't be the fool that does not know how to speak
their native language. It's NOT cool what so ever.
Now for the upcoming assignment, I am pretty excited about
this one because I can write about something I am passionate about. My topic is
about Stop and Frisk law that is in New York. It is an issue that needs to be
dealt with because it is such a racist issue. This is just targeting blacks
& Latino's in low income neighborhoods. This is incriminating them before
they are even in trouble. This is making it difficult and even scary to be out.
Police are here to make us feel protected, not paranoid!
This law has gotten a lot of attention, and it should be
granted unconstitutional because it is not making things any better. To top it
all off, of all of the searches they do, most of them are unsuccessful and the
police end up not finding anything! Is this what we want for t
-Eucalyptus
I agree with what you are saying because I also thought the SRTOL was a document that was going to change the way students expressed themselves. But after I read the counter argument, I was not so sure about whether this would be good or bad for the students. The SRTOL is actually something that would create confusion and would mess with how students learn. And in the long run this would widen the achievement gap like you mentioned. The students that would be mostly affected by this will be underrepresented students which would not make things any better.
ReplyDeleteWe shouldn't forget where we came from. We should maintain our cultures to ourselves because it shows appreciation and respect towards yourself and other people.
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