Gender within the Classrooms

As I was reading the readings assigned to us for class, Reading 22 really caught my eye, specifically because I myself work in a preschool and see the day to day interaction between the teachers and students, either boy or girl. I didn't have a chance after reading this to actually look and observe the preschool I work at and see if it can relate to this reading, but I definitely will be next time I am there. This reading really caught me off guard because I never thought of this being actually a thing in a classroom, but it does make sense. As is said in the reading one teacher treated a girl student differently because she can be fragile and doesn't want her to cry or feel sad about doing wrong or something not right. I was just blown away because the way I think of it is, they are a student and need to be disciplined and told what is wrong if it is wrong no matter there age or gender. Yes i agree the way you approach to tell the kids they did wrong is different for every kid, but never the gender, I don't see how a preschool age kid should be treated differently because of gender.

This picture is a great image to show how each Gender is and how it reflects the class room.

Reverse Racism

I thought it would be only right to write this weeks blog about Reverse Racism, due to the lack of understanding most people have about it. What I have learned is that Reverse Racism is not even a thing, it is not possible to have Reverse Racism in the USA right now in this time. What Racism means is when a group or race type gets brought down and discriminated against in a huge group setting as general and treated not equally as everyone else. For example the easiest group to talk about is the African Americans and how they were traded badly and suffered from racism in the United States and other countries, they as a group were treated for years badly and had to fight racism for many many years. This is considered a group that suffered from racial discrimination as a whole and has still impacted them to this day. Now when white people or Caucasian people complain about Reverse Racism it really is not racism at all. It is only the white people not getting what they already have access to. they never had to as a group be neglected to certain things and so on.

This website I found gave me a lot more insight about Reverse Racism and how it is not a real thing and explains it really well, and makes it very understandable. I found it to help me a lot to grasp this concept.

http://feminspire.com/why-reverse-racism-isnt-real/

Matrix Of Domination

I really like the meaning of the NEW and modified model to this theory. The old meaning was so detailed and non realistic many people could not even identify with it, because of the specifics it had within it. While the new model of this theory is more broad and open ended so many more people can relate to it. For example as we talked in class that the new model is easier for people nation wide to identify in, even with different social structures or environments they can still place themselves within the model. This is so important for a person to be able to identify where they are placed in society and not only that but to identify as someone and find their selves with in the society, making them more meaning full and important in the world today.


This picture I found shows many examples of the theory and who all plays a role in it and how they can be categorized. It is much more broad than the old models definition and it really plays a huge role in many peoples lives. They can more easily identify with groups rather than not belonging to one at all.