Other Peoples Children

         

        Other Peoples Children by Lisa Delpit.

                    The author, Lisa Delpit, argues through the text how students from different backgrounds             should be taught differently. 

                       She explains how she's tried to talk to other teachers in her school about it and they                 disagreed with her. They were white and telling her how her ideas were wrong. She tried explaining it to them, but they weren't agreeing. Lisa Delpit kept saying how they listen, but they don't hear. She    ended up stopping with arguing with them because she thinks it's not worth it. She believes that they    think they always have to be correct. Some people that she thinks should be taught differently is colored, low class, and different cultured students. Delpit also talks about different issues with power within schools. Some of the examples of power is the power of the teacher over the students, publisher of textbooks and developers of the curriculum, power of the state in enforcing compulsory schooling      and the power of an individual or group to determine another's intelligence. She thinks how people who have more power in our society don't know about their power but people with less power are aware of power in our day-to-day life. 

               

         I believe that we should incorporate other cultures into our teaching habits. I think it'll be a great idea so they students will be able to learn easier and understand material easier. However, I disagree how she kept referring back to "white people have to always be right". I don't agree with putting people in a group with others just because of their race. Although the people who did have an argument against her were white people, not "all" white people are going to argue against her and refuse to be wrong.