Socioeconomic Status
One of the most important social factors that impacted the scenario the most appeared to be economic status or social class. In the given scenario Tomas Juarez made the decision to work with under privileged kids from low-income families, although he started out working in a multi-diverse suburban school. The children that Juarez worked with in this were different from the children he later worked with in that these children were very active in school affairs and extracurricular activities. Not only did the children affect the situation but also the teachers. Juarez explained “It was a pleasure to work with a team who planned interesting lessons and based on a constructivist approach, engaged students in the content, and developed higher-order thinking skills.” Which will bring us to our next social factor, environment or locality. With the changing of environments he described how the smell of the halls never set well and the halls were dirty, at the beginning of the school year. His classroom did not even have enough chairs to seat all of his students. The windows were covered with cardboard-like material and some of the tiles were missing from the ceiling of his classroom, Juarez described the transition between atmospheres as he had been “spoiled” in the suburbs. The third and most interesting social factor from the scenario I found was social stratification, although Juarez started his career knowing that he wanted to work with children from families with low-incomes that would classify as stratification simply because he ranks the people and children from both experience based on income, wealth and obviously their power in society. A solution to the scenario is that Juarez could use what he has learned from both experiences and apply it to his current situation to help improve the school and lives of the children. An example of him making an impression on these students would be similar to the movie “Freedom Writers” when the teacher moved into the school of