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Amazing Grace By: Jonathan Kozol   Quotes: “ The number 6 train from manhattan to the south bronx makes nine stops in the 18 minutes ride  between East 59th street and brooklyn ave, when you enter the train you are in the seventh richest congressional district in the nation. When you leave, you are in the poorest” This quote stood out to me because it demonstrates the segregations between the cities of NYC, which is also related to the schools since the schools are divided by district, Kozol also mentions this “ The 600,000 people who live here and the 450,000 people who live in Washington Heights and Harlem, which are separated from the South Bronx by a narrow river, make up one of the largest racially segregated concentrations of poor people in our nation.” “ Asthma is the most common illness among children here. Many have to struggle to take in a good deep breath.” “ The house in which these children live two thirds of which are owned by the city of new york, are often as s...

  THE SILENCED  DIALOGUE  AND OVERVIEW HANDOUT BLOG #2 BY: Lisa Delpit Quotes:   "I tell them that their language and cultural style is unique and wonderful but that there is a political power game that is also being played, and if they want to be in on that game there are certain games that they too must play." This quote stood out to me, i like how he stood how unique and the important their language and culture is.  " I do not advocate that is the school's job to attempt to change the homes of poor and nonwhite children to match the homes of those in the culture of power. That may indeed be a form of cultural genocide. I have frequently heard schools call poor parent "uncaring" when parents respond to the school's urging, saying, " But that's the school's job." What The school personnel fail to understand is that if the parents were members of the culture of power and lived by its rules were members of the culture of power and lived...

  Privilege power and Different  by, Alan Johnson Quotes: "privilege is always a problem for people who don't have it and for people who do, because privilege is always in relation to other."... " if people in privileged groups don't include themselves in the solution, the default is to leave it to blacks and women and asians, Latinos, Native Americans, ect and the lower working classes to do it own their own. but these groups can't do it on their own, because they don't have the power to change entrenched systems of privilege by themselves." (Pg10) These quotes really cough my attention and opened my mind how much we need to work together as a whole, if these group are fighting for their own they already carrying a disadvantage meanwhile if privilege groups would contribute to be part of the solution there would be more awareness, The first quotes made me realize how privilege has always been there, people refuse to work together to create solutions...