The Relationship Between Delgado-Bernal And Aldente
Delgado-Bernal and Aleman continue to dicuss their struggles and perservance with Aldente in these two chapters. First they discuss the relationship between the parents and teachers of the students in Aldente. Delgado-Bernal and Aleman describe the parents during a field trip to college which contardictiates many of the steortypes dicussed in our pervious readings. Many sterotypes depict that minorities do not care about education, but the parents of Adelante were very excited and curious during this field trip to the university. Parents came to fieldtrip to show support for their children even if they had never been on a college campus before or came back from a long night of work. Adelente had developed this relationship with parents, but
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These teachers based their assumptions on family issues, lack of money, parent awareness, and language barriers. They assumed that parents who never went to college would not provide enough support for a first generation college student or how launage barriers put the student behind. I think it is wrong of them to make these assumptions because all students have the potential to go to college, but it is the education system and these sterotypes that are oppressing them and stopping them for pursuing their dreams. Many of these teachers assumptions were countered as many of these student’s parents fought against issues such as harsh punishments in recess when both the districts and faulty least expected them to. Aldente works to create confiaza in both the parents and teachers, but also includes the mentors. Aldente provides support for the mentors by creating at a diversity scholars program at the university of Utah which promotes academic support and retention programs for students of color.I think this is important because these mentors most likely went through the same experience of teachers assuming they couldn’t go to
These teachers based their assumptions on family issues, lack of money, parent awareness, and language barriers. They assumed that parents who never went to college would not provide enough support for a first generation college student or how launage barriers put the student behind. I think it is wrong of them to make these assumptions because all students have the potential to go to college, but it is the education system and these sterotypes that are oppressing them and stopping them for pursuing their dreams. Many of these teachers assumptions were countered as many of these student’s parents fought against issues such as harsh punishments in recess when both the districts and faulty least expected them to. Aldente works to create confiaza in both the parents and teachers, but also includes the mentors. Aldente provides support for the mentors by creating at a diversity scholars program at the university of Utah which promotes academic support and retention programs for students of color.I think this is important because these mentors most likely went through the same experience of teachers assuming they couldn’t go to