Mrs Takara Summary

What this novel does not touch on is the harsh levels of discrimination that some Asian-American families faced during the 20th centuries, some people telling at them to go back to Vietnam, Korea, or wherever they came from, some refusing service, perhaps throwing them out for being different, similarly to how African-Americans were treated during that time, and similar to how some Muslims are being treated today. However, more insidious than moments of outright hostility, and maybe more powerful, are the constant weak reminders that you’re different, that you’re not one of them. The “sign at the Peking Express” (Ng 193), the “little boys on the playground, stretching their eyes to slits with their fingers” (Ng 193), you even “saw it when waitresses and policemen and bus drivers spoke slowly to you, in simple words, as if you might not understand” (Ng 193). All these tiny things, these little reminders that you’re not the same as everyone else around you, may have more impact on the people being discriminated against than blatant in-your-face

While growing up and observing my teachers at school, I have learned that it isn’t always an easy job. Teachers do everything they can to teach their students’ academic, social and other formative skills. Plenty of my teachers have to deal with complications, most of them being minor, but it isn’t always an easy job helping children, teens and young adults. As a student myself, I know they can be stubborn, unwilling to learn, aggressive, and irresponsible. Sometimes, they simply don’t care. However, that is a teacher's purpose: to help and shape their students to become better learners, so that they have a clearer understanding regarding a variety of subject matters. Someday, I actually want to become an elementary art teacher, which is

While reading Journal 1 of The Alternative and reflecting on the assignment giving, memories of teachers flooded through my mind. I am unabashed to admit that I believed some teachers to be poor at their job, and have more than once thought that perhaps this wasn’t the correct career path for them. One such teacher was my 7th and 8th grade science teacher, who believed public shaming to be the preferable way of teaching adolescents. When a student would answer a question wrong in class he couldn’t help but laugh as well as bring it up throughout the lesson, refusing to let the student move past their mistake. He chose to

The short story, “Indian Education” by Sherman Alexie, is a summary of Alexie’s childhood during his twelve years of school. For each grade, a brief racist flashback is mentioned. Each flashback indicates why Alexie felt “lost and insignificant” (Alexie 320). Alexie is on an Indian Reservation, which makes things more difficult. He suffers injustice from his community, teachers, and classmates. This story is a biographical perspective of Alexie with a strong use of structure, setting, and diction. He uses these elements to help the reader understand his experiences throughout his childhood.

One of Victor’s first experiences of racial injustice occurs in second grade when his white missionary teacher discriminates him against his outstanding academic skills and his Indian heritage. Victor has pulled aside and is assigned a junior high-level spelling test; he recalls “When I spelled all the words right, she crumpled up the paper and made me eat it. ‘You’ll learn respect,’ she said” (Alexie 173). Here Victor faces two types of discrimination: the injustice of being singled out from his classmates in order to take a more difficult test, and the injustice of being penalized for performing well on the test. Instead of being praised or awarded for his outstanding ability, Victor is punished severely for his high-level skills by having to eat his test. Later on, the teachers send a note to his parents telling them “to either cut [Victor’s] braids or keep [him] home from class.” This injustice towards Victor’s culture over a hairstyle has no impact on a child’s education or accomplishments. Alexie incorporated this injustice to show the readers that such discrimination occurs and his stories are not fiction. In fact, native women, P. Jane Hafen responds to

On the other hand, Nguyen talks of the language difficulties that she experienced being a Vietnamese in the United States. At first, she is enrolled to a school far from home as it offers bilingual education to help her integrate with the system of learning. She works hard to raise her academic performance with hopes of falling in favor with the teacher. However, as the teacher knows her Vietnamese origin, she manifests her stereotype on Nguyen’s comprehension in literature readings. For instance, while it was her turn to read, the teacher would interrupt her making sentiments such as “you are reading too fast….things she did not do to other students” (Nguyen, 35). She also faces a “school-constructed identity” together with her sister with all sorts of jibes thrown against them. As Vollmer puts it, “such assumptions affect the interpretations made of student behavior and school

Many teachers lack the training needed to identify issues with behavior that result from abuse, poverty, and disabilities.

As Newman’s we are not perfect but we support each other in everything we do. I can call my father day or night to ask him, “Hey what would you do in this situation.” I believe that as young people we learn from our elders. We need to take the advice from them and use it because they have been through it all, just about. As a future educator the values my parents instilled on me to be the best I can be, is easily transferred to my classroom. I take what I have learned from my parents and apply it in my everyday life by when I teach students, I can show them by my actions that I am willing to do whatever I can for them to pass. It shows them that if I have a teacher that is willing to do that for me, I should be willing to do my best. Being your best is not a easy thing to accomplish, you have to work at it and I was fortunate to learn that through family but my students will be able to learn that from how I teach. There will never be a student that walks through the threshold of my classroom that will not receive the same treatment. My culture shines through my heart, my actions, and my passions. This is a culture that was taught on love and respect. Teaching needs to be the same thing. If an educator loves and respect the students, their classroom, and their environment, there should be no reason that the teacher will fail as an educator. Each child is different;

Anderson can be seen as being very biased in this article which leads her article to be seen as a diatribe forum of argument. Her biased writing is set in a tone of anger because of the personal experiences with teacher’s through out her schooling she has had. “The tragedy also has me thinking a lot about the teachers. Not from an academic point of view, but in the visceral feelings I have for teachers I have loved. There were only a few but they all had the same qualities in common: Patience. Compassion. Understanding. Passion” (504). This personal touch in her writing sets the whole tone of her paper because she believes she knows that all teachers are like the ones she had and this has made her come to the conclusion that none of them have the ability to carry and use guns to protect their

Discrimination is the biggest challenge an immigrant can face, because it makes it difficult for them to get a job, and it makes their lives less safe. Danny’s girlfriend, Tiffany Marie has a brother named Frank. He is in a gang of white supremacists, and they abuse anyone who is not white. Danny and Sang Le face discrimination from not only them, but from naive Americans and shopkeepers. When Sang Le is trying to get a job at Tilson’s Grocery Store, Mr. Tilson says, “‘I heard you were a Vietcong’” This is a great example of how Sang Le and Danny face discrimination, which makes it a struggle to find a job. Mr. Tilson assumes that Sang Le was apart of the brutal, communist Vietcong, just because he was Vietnamese. Another reason discrimination

The education system serves to be another oppressive institution as the teachers purposely alienate the Asian American students from the others. Instead of being seen as unique for being first-generation citizens, they are viewed as being deviants and hassles. The teachers, though some have Asian roots, refuse to understand the struggle or lifestyle of these children who have come from immigrant families. This is seen when Florante talks about Mrs. Takara saying she is, “A Japanese and an American wrestling in one mind. He says that her American upbringing has blinded her from reading between the lines of the history textbooks where silent people choke from invisibility and humiliation” (Linmark 49). This mindset definitely results in the obvious racist undertones that are evident throughout the education system.

The author gives a personal childhood reflection in addressing discrimination. He illustrates a significant moment when he first experienced hate. To this seven year-old boy, this hate was uncalled for. The reader is able to walk through a memory lane of defining moments in

Authoritative teachers will often “try to catch their students being good” and will reinforce the good behavior, rather than focusing on the bad. (Iannelli, 2004). It is critical that teachers praise their students for their efforts. A teacher can teach the entire classroom by recognizing one child’s positive action. Children desire praise and they will learn appropriate behavior when their fellow students receive praise. When teachers focus on bad behavior and make an example of a particular student to the entire classroom, it only makes the child that is being reprimanded feel alienated, ashamed, embarrassed, or possibly revengeful.

I remember a few of these unkind souls and forever remember their manner and the effect it had on me. I simply did not wish to be there in the presence of these teachers, so went out of my way to stay away. The harsh reality was that I failed to prosper in these classes. One has to ask if this is right and if the essence of education is being missed. Reality and national results speak for themselves. What are we producing in society today? We are in effect only producing human beings who are workers and not free thinkers. Human beings who do not question, reason and think for themselves. This is where education has lead humanity. Is this an aid to life or a long term obstacle that is too far gone to fix in the later stages.

In an Elementary/Middle/High inner-city school,it is not just the condescension and violence exhibited toward minorities that must be taken into account when looking at incidents of racism. Restrictions on minorities' opportunity to succeed are often racially determined. For example, Asian-Americans incur resentment for academic excellence and "overachieving." If racism is explicit at the street level of society, it is often implicit and equally entrenched at the highest levels. (Beswick, 2006) I hate to admit now, once doing this paper, I once have been bias towards Hispanics in my classroom without even knowing. I stated to another teacher: “Well, I have thirteen Spanish speaking students, how do you expect me to have high reading scores for Voyager? Administration is always worried about test scores, but we are