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I think the laws and policies based on trans and gender nonconforming students are very important. These people typically feel unsafe in their everyday life. With things like this in place it is important to recognize what is going on with these students is awful people need to have their identity validated especially as they get older.  The policy put forward by Ride was surprising how early that it came to me. I would have expected it to have been put into place in 2020 or later not around 2018. 

 Looking back on this semester I can tell that many of these reading are important to developing teacher identy. The main reading that stood out to me was the  Kozal. Amazing grace was an eye opening piece. It points out that just because of where someone was born they are set up for failure. Most of know that district lines in the past has been drawn to keep people of color in their own neighborhoods. This an example of keeping them out. This also related to "why are the black children sitting together in the lunch room" People who feel unsafe in area will stick with people they perceive are like them. Students feeling unsafe in a school is unexceptable and needs to fixed   This interview with Kozol is him reviewing amazing grace  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjUlyvWL3CQ 

Connections  heir brings up man very important points in ending ableism. Ablism is rapid in the classroom in america I have experienced this myself. I have talked about this class all through my school in warwick I had a 405 plant this had accommodations for myself to enhance my learning so that I could keep up with other students in my class. I had many exceptional teachers throughout my time in school. My last year of elementary school  i was in 6th grade with a teacher who was a few years away from retiring she was stuck in her ways and was not a big fan of technology. This lead to her not letting me use a computer to complete my work which was on my accomodations  While I know that it is important to still focus on people with visible  disabilities I feel like When we have this discussion people with invisible disabilities and learning disabilities fall to backside of the conversation or just told to deal with. This can lead to then feeling invalidated.     

 Arguments Rodriguez begins by addressing the support for bilingual education, which emphasizes the value of teaching students in their families language   The author tries to drive home the point  that languages are interchangeable. He points out the view of social perception of english as the public language and Spanish as a private thing.  Another argument the Rodrigues puts forward is their experience of being resistant against embracing the English language. The author talks about  the internal struggle in school with english langue saying that they felt like the english language was not theirs to use that it would have been more help to learn the other lessons in their modern language For Aria the most important moment arrive when their family shifts from speaking spanish at home to speaking english they allowed them to learn and assimilate. This section leads into talking about how when individual adopt a new language and how it can make them feel like they are giving up their c

 The chart shows how different people might have been affected the farther you move away for the center less say you have in society.  I personally live almost completely inside inner circle wheel besides one or two characteristics. I can see how being a cisgendered white man can benfire me throughout my life. I can see that people seem to more willing to listen to what I have to say vs what women around me have had to say. While I know that this is not right it is just what I have witnessed in my everyday life 

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