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Regardless if it works, I am not for segregation. What I look for in schools is students of different cultures and races. Just because it is said in test results that students of different races besides students that are white test poorly does not mean that students of different races have to be parted from their white peers. Desegregation can cause many horrible things. Fights, death, heartbreak, people live in fear. Suicide is a problem because other student and people teasing family's and students to the point they feel that they do not belong so they decide it is time to end it. The other thing is schools need to be better organized. For example my best friend who a few years past away went through many moves with her sister who was her guardian at the time. She tried very hard to graduate high school but got her GED because the schools she went to gave her a hard time about her school records. Finally, after going to school after school her records were missing and credits gone and senior projects kept changing on her. I tried to help her out but it was useless because the schools did not want to work out anything with her and she was a different race, other then white. I did not give up on her, I helped her through hard times even housed her and shared clothes. I helped her study for her GED. She got her GED and years later got a job in a nursing home. She was happy she got married then tragically died unexpectedly months later followed by her husband, who went through issues in schools as well. He was not rich he couldn't afford much and struggled and lacked interest in school until before he was married. Because he could not afford much and was white he was treated differently and struggled through life debating on if he should live or not. There parents are scared for life now and there family's. They spend day after day what they could of done to help them more. Even I, being so close to them feel upset at times because they could of lived a better life. I always helped them and there family, I was around so much I was considered family. In school I have had problems as well my grades where not the best and failed state testing. I have a disability and I was yelled at by teachers and they did not know how to handle me and I found myself crying a lot, I did not understand why I had to be yelled at or why I had to do certain things. Though I did not realize it but I was picked apart by staff and my peers. Later on I was depressed and struggled more. After years and years and teacher after teacher I finely found that teacher that understood me and how to teach me. I finally felt a part of myself I never felt before. I felt respected and I felt that I could do things I just learned differently then others and had a different view on things. At the end of my senior year of high school I felt confident in myself and because of this teacher and the wonderful high school I went to my last two years of high school I finely felt like I could live my life and not care about people' s harsh sayings about me. I also think that schools should also have more founding so students get a full learning experience. If students have what they need in class, they will learn more and stay interested and learn more. Tests will be better and numbers would change. It's not about race, it is about our school systems.     

      


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Kahne and Westeimer

While reading this article I was thinking back to both my days in high school and now while I intern a my old high school. It was amazing to read about service learning, because I have been doing things for my community since I was in first grade. In elementary school I helped the needy at senior homes, I put on dinners and did meals on wheels for those who could not travel or afford good meals. I was a girl scout and through scouting I learned the importance of helping out the community either by making someone happy, by signing during the holidays or by just listening and by cleaning up beaches and putting on memorials when I was in middle school for lost loved ones. We cared about our community and the people in it. We learned that we should not take things for granted and respect each other and help out. Responsibilities were a big part in learning through scouting, and each project we engaged in we took something away and did what we had to, to help. In my high school years I was still a scout and had a internship for school. I tough 5th grade students about health. I really enjoyed how the children reacted to the course I and my classmates that interned with me set up. There was work book activities and gym games which we played outside or inside depending on the weather. We created songs, and by the end of the course the children had a party that included fruits and vegetables. These things I have done for the community are only a few out of my very long list, but some of my most rewarding. Now I intern at my old high school and find that it is still the same when it comes to service learning. Each student gets an internship here, and does community service hours. This is helping them learn more about the community they live in and more about their interests as well. I think that service learning has a powerful impact on the world not just the community. Children learn much more by going on into the world then sitting in a classroom being bored. At least at a service learning site they are hands on and active which keeps students interested in what they are learning about. In a classroom setting students get bored and tend to tune out the teacher because they stop caring. President John Kennedy had once said this and I think this great " ask not what your country can do for
you; ask what you can do for your country." This saying it powerful and positive a wonderful message for all and one to live by.  More schools should be doing more for their community and if they did, their students would have more knowledge and respect for the world and for others.

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Drawn Together : Comics, Diversity and Stereotypes

Social Justice Event March 6, 2019 12:30-2 pm




Drawn Together: Comics, Diversity and stereotypes is a documentary that influences the community by drawings and personal statements. People of different races after 9/11 happened were mistreated badly. People were judged on their looks and people assumed they where part of groups that would harm the United States. Through Comics people created a way to educate people of all ages about diversity and stereotyping. One is the K chronological's by Keith Knight. The comic strip has been around since the 1990's, the year I was born in. He creates comics based on personal and world related race topics and current events that happen in the world. Over the years the topics have also been addressed at comic cons around the world. This increases knowledge about the diversity issues and issues surrounding stereotyping. The people creating the comic's hope that what they are doing changes people views about different races and limits stereotyping. I think this is a great way to get a message out in the world, because you get a story and you can visualize what you are reading about through the art work. In the world in general art has lots of power and influences many people and many things. Just by walking out side you can maybe see billboards and signs, maybe art work on a side of a building making a statement about the community. Also, in the documentary there was an all mom band. That wrote songs and performed them, about different issues revolving around diversity and stereotyping. Children love music so this influences them to learn about these subject matters in a positive way and is fun for everyone. This also models behavior for children. Children also learn more about these topics through comics because it is more appealing to them. The pictures hold their interest and they love action. If children learn better this way, I think that maybe schools should do these things in the classrooms to help their students better understand diversity and stereotypes. Another comic is called Super Sikh which is by Eileen Kaur Alden and Supreet Singh Manchanda. this comic is great for kids to learn about diversity and stereotyping. "  In "Super Sikh", secret agent Deep Singh is overworked and exhausted from destroying the Taliban at night and maintaining a cover job by day. He's a big Elvis fan, and he decides to take his dream vacation to visit Graceland (Elvis's home). Unfortunately, a crazy Taliban group decides to follow him to America and get rid of him once and for all. But Deep Singh and his team are not going down without a fight! (less)" https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25750785-super-sikh
This comic is a non-prophet supporting children's reading programs and to educate them about diversity. It's also good to dress up like your hero and go out into the community or the world and talk about the issues. It could have a greater impact because people are naturally attracted to things they do not see every day and different things. They listen more because they want to know what you are doing. I think these ways of informing people are very positive ways of communication about these topics and are fun and informative.           


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Safe places are important for the LGBT no matter if the person is a youth or an adult. People are negative towards them in so many ways. People fail to see people are different, some people want to see things as normal. These people view normal as non LGBT. When they here gay or bisexual or any other term they act discussed because they were raised to think that it was not right or it is unhealthy, it is wrong or it is not in my religion. Some people are not as open minded as some others. This is sad that more people can not be more open minded. Some LGBT are murdered because of the hate people have towards them. Others are in hospitals or were in hospitals do to attacks on the streets or by their own families. Some are hurt by words or how they are treated by teacher's, family members, or people of authority. We need to teach our students to understand the LGBT community so that they understand that it is not a subject to criticize. I know that students teased about being such a thing as gay could commit suicide. This not only hurts the community or other students and friends but hurts the family as well. That person can not be bought back. The person or people teasing the student find out about this and have to live with the fact, that student killed himself or herself because I made them not fit in and made them feel unwanted and in some cases they just do not care about the outcome. This could be prevented if talked about in schools and teachers can bring awareness about this and save lives in the process. "Movements shape attitudes and ideologies, and these attitudes and ideologies have physical and psychological consequences-particularly for LGBT youth". The problems remain in the schools because of parents or states not expecting of the sexuality of it's students or teachers or staff not expecting of the sexuality of it's students. There have been angry parents calling schools and going to schools complaining about this subject. They disapprove teachers teaching students such topics. These parents rather put a stop to it. One reason why is religion or they disapprove of it because they think its gross or not natural. Same goes for the states that don't welcome this topic in there schools or people of the LGBT are no welcomed because it's against the laws. Teachers and staff members have different reasons some of which I already named. Some teachers treat these students poorly and unfairly. They will fail them and not recognize they exist. Teachers like this should not be teaching, it is teaching negative things to other students. My thought is that these teachers need to rethink and reteach themselves before they teach others, and if they can not do this then they should not teach at all.

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In this writing by Christensen, the story is about how stereotyping and racism is affecting children's thinking process and how cartoon influence this and how this is teaching our children and students. Children at an early age start watching cartoons with inside meanings to them. How different people are pictured in society, or how certain races of people are treated. Children pick this up and think that it's okay, but in most cases it is not. It is unfair to people of different backgrounds. In Disney cartoons, they mainly use white people as main characters until lately. The Princess and the Frog came out and the princess was the first black woman in a princess roll and had power in the Disney princess collection. Although, through time Disney and others have made movies, books, magazines and much more that have these issues in them. On social media it is known that this is happening, I have seen the posts on facebook describing such issues. This has become a big deal among parents. Parents are concerned about how their children will react to such things and what the out comes would be. Though, honestly I watched shows like these and read books and other things, with these view points in them while I grew up. I did not think about it until I was older in middle school and actually noticed this in what I was seeing and reading. But, I did not have any issues with this until later on in middle school, maybe by the end of my 7th grade year. stereotyping and racism is all around us, you can not just hid from it, if you want to live in this world. It is something we have to deal with from day to day. It is not right, but some people are this way and refuse to change themselves into better people. The person could be a classmate, family member, friend, a friend of a friend, you do not know until you see it happen or here it for yourselves. In the movies like I said whites usually have the highest roll and people of other races have lesser rolls. Example is people she a character like Cinderella or Barbie or the Ninja Turtles and a young mind thinks, this is how I am suppose to be, or in a commercial certain people are seen in the add and people think I should be wearing that to fit in or I should buy that because it is cool, all the cool people and rich people are buying it, so should I. Although, people do not need these things to fit in or buy them because there race wears them. Girls do not need to look like Barbie or Cinderella to look pretty. The media makes it seem this way, to sell their product. Christensen wrote " women's roles in fairy tales distort reality" this was said by Catkin. Also, Christensen wrote " because we can never look like Cinderella, we begin to hate ourselves."Also, "children's cartoon's,movies, and literature are perhaps the most influential genre "read." The quotes I listed here I thought were very powerful and said a lot to me as the reader. I know I was affected by Barbie and her skinny body and her fashion and that she could do anything she wanted to do while growing up but I did not know at the time. Other things did not affect me as much as did Barbie. I find that Barbie and Disney and older cartoons do have an affect on children even if they know it or not.

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