Traversing Teaching-Lilli Massey

     From my incredibly limited experience, being a teacher is one of the most rewarding, and exhausting jobs there is. As a teacher, you want to make sure all of your students are happy and safe. You want to be the teacher that everybody loves and wants to get. However, all of these "perfect" teachers have likely given up countless hours of unpaid work and made many sacrifices in order to achieve this. If one day, your kids are coming into the classroom and you notice one of your students seems really tired, and isn't really engaging in the lesson like they normally would. Everyone has off days, maybe they just didn't get enough sleep last night. But as the week goes on, you notice that this student still seems out of it, and they start missing assignments and you start to get the idea that something else may be going on at home. Of course, you can't stop the whole class to go and check in with this student, but it would be good to find a time, maybe during indep...

  Is Schooling Equitable? To answer this question, I think we need to first know the definition of the word. according to the Merriam Webster, to be equitable is to be able to be made equal. To reach this, schools must always be fair to all students. Now knowing this definition, I feel I can make my own opinion. No, I do not think schooling is equitable; I think that it should be, but in American history it has yet to be so. Recently, Graduate students at Stanford and USC came up with a new way of tracking schooling and housing segregation in the U.S. called the ‘Segregation Index’. This new tool “shows American schools remain highly segregated by race, ethnicity, and economic status.” Not only does this show segregation is still happening but growing in our larger districts. This is very disheartening for me, because we know that segregation is wrong, but nothing is being done to prevent it from continuing.     While our schools may not be segregated the same ways, they ...