chapter 2

Culture is a difficult topic to talk about at school. The teacher wouldn't want to leave any culture left out in the discussion. As I was growing up, I was lucky enough to experience different cultures besides my own. But today, I noticed that schools, well teachers, do not talk about culture. The schools I have done my Field-Based have been in the South San Antonio ISD, and the majority of the students share the same culture. So I know they have not had the opportunity to experience other cultures while in school. I thought my first semester of Field-Based I was going to see how the teacher handles the different cultures to teach during the holidays, but all they seemed to talk about was Christmas with the trees, lights, Santa, etc. Teaching culture to the students should be taught, so they would know how act in a mannerly order towards other cultures, if they become face with another culture.

I remember in class, Mrs. Pickett mention something about the kids not taking home the sight or spellings words on Monday, like they do every week. That reminded me of last semester in my Field-Based. I was in a Kindergarten class, and one week we were really busy, so we didn't have enough time to pass out the words for the week to the kids. The next day, we had parents calling the teachers, and there were parents dropping by the classroom just to see what happened to the words. At that point, I didn't realize how much the spelling words meant to parents. But now that Ms. Pickett said that spelling words is the last thing that parents feel they could help their kids with schoolwork, I now understand why the parents made such a big deal about it. I know to make sure I send out the spelling words every week.