Emily Vieira's Fall 2018 Blog

I've chosen to focus this blog off of Alex's blog . She did a great job finding quotes and making connections to those quotes. My favorite quote she choose was, " I started to notice that I didn't like the classes I was taking called special education. I had to go through special ed. almost all my life. I wanted to take other classes that interested me. I had never felt so mad, I wanted to cry." I thought this quote really showed the struggles that kids with Down syndrome face. They are forced to be put in a corner rather than have the freedom to succeed and evolve.  I also love how Alex pointed out when this article was written. I think the times is important to show the improvement we have made in the educational system since then. It may not be big but it is a step in the right direction.  Lastly, I also love Alex's statement, " We are all human . Ones disability does not define them" This is such a raw statement. We are all human, we must treat...

I am choosing to write this post off of Laura's blog . I love how she connected the readings back to her own life as well as, the service learning project. Laura talk's a lot about advanced placement classes in high school and how they were very different then the other classes. I would have to agree that the teachers who taught the advanced placement courses at my school also seemed very interested and enthusiastic about the course. However, these classes were not hard to get into. If you signed up for the class then you could take it. Everyone knew the level and ability you needed to do well in this class. I think it was great to have the opportunity to work at a higher level. Like Jeannie Oakes would say, these classes allowed me to have better instructors, better organization, more compelling work, and freedom. There are many pros to learning in this type of environment!  A quote I can totally relate to is " One quote that stood out to me from the article is 'I...

A quote that stuck out to me the most in The Problem We All Live With by This American Life was, “They celebrated that the transfer students were there.” I thought this was quite amazing. The students of Francis Howell School District treated the transfer students nothing like their parents had. The parents had believed the students from Normandy School District would lower the districts test grades, cause more violence and push families to move out. However none of this happened. The test scores stayed the same, no violence was encountered and families stayed in the district. The students from Normandy excelled in the new integrated school. I thought that the youth Francis Howell’s willingness and welcoming of the Normandy students was incredible to hear. The racism and rejection of the mostly black Normandy community for the most part was still present in the older folks of the mostly white Francis Howell community. Yet, the children of Francis Howell welcomed the new students of...