Start But Don T Stay There Analysis

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(393) Milner: Introduction & Chapter 1, (1-44). Prompt: Define what Milner calls: 1. Color blindness, 2. Cultural conflicts, 3. Myth of meritocracy, 4. Low expectations and deficit mind-sets, 5. Context-neutral mind-sets. Share a personal experience for each of the five components of Milner’s framework. (200-400 words) Your written reflection to prompt In the book Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There: Understanding Diversity, Opportunity Gaps, and Teaching in Today's Classrooms, Milner goes into detail about five critical areas that must be addressed in order to eliminate these opportunity gaps: 1. Color blindness: The idea that ignoring or overlooking racial and ethnic differences promotes racial harmony in the classroom. 2. Cultural Conflicts: When a school…show more content…
Living in a state that is not known for being racist, it was difficult seeing this occurring at another high school. I thought it was so great that Morgan Freeman was willing to pay for the costs of prom so that they could integrate all the students for one united prom. He made an excellent point when he said that it was not about changing the students, ironically, the people that teach them had to be changed. These students, mostly due to their parents influence, were surrounded by racism, and in essence, had to choose if they were for or against integration. I was astonished to see that for so many years there were black proms and white proms and that there were two homecoming queens, one black, and one white. The parental influence was so strong that they were able to make a completely separate prom specifically for the white students, completely disregarding the attempt to change the racist views of the past. I graduated the same year as these students, and it was amazing to see how the issue of racism was still so prevalent in the same year that Obama was running for
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