DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
"Academic achievement, doing well in school, and pursuing learning, in all of these narratives, is always accomplished in the face of considerable constraints, whether the impoverished condition of the school, the absence of a local high school, laws that made it a crime to teach slaves to read and write, or a teacher's or school's ideology of African-American intellectual inferiority. These constraints were tied to the social identity and the political location of African Americans as African Americans."
1.) This is a powerful statement. Do you think that this statement validates the need for quotas in our educational system? (i.e...Boston Latin School was sued for mandating that 25% of their admittance be minorities.) Is this fair?
2.) In the Landings-Billings readings, it states that there are no pratical exemplars that make teaching for social justice possible. What do you think about this comment? Do you feel this is the job/responsibility of a classroom teacher hired to teach a specific curriculum?
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