Why Teach?

     Gender has a huge effect on the teaching profession, in my opinion. You don’t see many males within the profession in the younger years of schooling. After many news stories and cases, many male teachers just stick to coaching and try to stay away from the classroom setting. The point of view of a teacher is so cliché, because I don’t think one gender is better than another and all genders are capable of being great teachers without being viewed as inappropriate towards their students because they care more than others within their workspace.        Out of all my years of attending public school pre-k – 12 th   grade, I can count on one hand how many male teachers I’ve had. When I did have a male teacher, it was usually for electives or sports, rarely core subjects. I didn’t start to get male teachers in core subjects until college. Looking back on it I realized that male teachers usually gravitate toward male students rather than both gender...

  Do I Have the Full Picture?      According to the actions of repeated history, NO I don’t think anyone has or will ever receive the full picture. After reading Autumn's article and watching the video “ Dysconscious racism  in Sports”, the opposing side never has the full picture. The young male student didn’t really get why Autumn spazzed out with frustration and the fans of these well-known teams didn’t really understand why “Redskins” was hurtful and degrading to the Native American culture. People on the opposing side are not taking the time to better their knowledge on why certain issues create frustration or even anger from those a part of those slurs/names or statements.       As a young African American female in today’s society the N-word in most cases has been transformed into a causal work for homie, even though this word holds an extreme amount of hurtful, racial, and degrading memories others still feel the need to say it, and ...