Tessa Roberge's Blog

   I loved listening to the video provided on Woke Kindergarten, Woke Read Aloud: They, she, he ABC's. This video is almost healing because of how sweet the narrator Ki is when it comes to all the children in the book. They explain the idea of gender identity, transgenderism, and self-expression very well. In the conservative media, there is this idea that in order to explain transgenderism it takes this idea of almost sexualization because of the physiological idea of anatomy. This idea is disgusting because it not only takes the idea of what a person is and makes it all about the sexualization of the person and not about what the individuals go through, experience, and the process it takes to make themselves feel free. Often times with people who are transgender have a very hard time in schools and are the ones who get bullied before they realize their identity. When they do transition they often get even more backlash trying to become the person they are. The world if full ...

   Ableism is a subject that I am very well versed in. I have a 6 page paper on how ablism is universal and more prominent in other cultures across the globe. Ableism is such a complex issue that many people don't fully understand believe it or not. There is a type of Ableism that is overlooked and seen in public and private school systems daily that go unnoticed. It is the type of ableism that attacks students who are enough to self sustain and manage their speech, emotional behaviors, and core curriculars on their own that don't qualify for special education but are still on the neurodiverse spectrum. These kids are constantly being called out and made fun of every day for random things. I went into a middle school to teach a saxophone workshop to some sixth graders, this one girl made a comment saying like "ohh so that's why my alto was sounding like Satan" as a joke because her low D, Eb key wasn't properly lining up causing her low D to be a 50 cents shar...

    Aria is short story that follows the life of Richard Rodriguez as he went from speaking only Spanish at home and with his family to assimilating into his everyday life and forgetting about his prior habitual ways. In this story shows a sort of idea of SCWAAMP especially with "American" and how this idea that we have a language that we are all supposed to be taught and learn is English. In the text Rodriguez says, "Following the dramatic Americanization of their children, even my parents grew more publicly confident. Especially my mother. She learned the names of all the people on our block. And she decided we needed to have a telephone installed in the house. My father continued to use the word gringo. But it was no longer charged with the old bitterness or distrust." (Rodriguez pg. 36.) As we read him and his family have integrated more into American Culture and society but what I found striking about this is how prior to this quote he had school officials tell...

  Though-out both Kohn's diagram and the video something very important has come up in what they where both writing about and to which was relating to the generation of students or the culture of students they are given. Classrooms that are bright and colorful are great but if there isn't a sign that you care about your students then they are not going to favor or even like you as a teacher. As we have seen and talked about in this course students may not be able to have the energy to want to come to school everyday and some, they depend on the sanctity of a classroom. Though having a respected ideals and rules are important, but it is also important to meet students where they are at. This could be in any regard but for this example more specifically how adding students interests and who they are too the classroom. Making assignments about maybe a popular movie, artist, holiday, video game, content creator, etc.    In a music setting this could mean a world of things. I ...

  In this text, the over arching theme being talked about isn't so much about how students are bad but more about how the education system has failed students to properly educate and create a system that targets students. In Robinsons video, he makes many good points to which one of them comments about a factory machine and I agree with that statement and is also applicable to these readings. Many students go into school move up in grade levels while slowly falling behind in other skills. It could be surface level, like math or English but it is also on a more social and emotional level. This is where those "Troublemakers" are formed.       From a personal standpoint I always was socially delayed, that meaning where the rest of my class acted and liked things a 14 year old would like I was still around the social age of 12. This can be because of ASD (autism spectrum disorder) or of how my parents raised me to be sheltered but regardless I was deemed loud and ta...

  I hate stereotypes. I don't mean the stupid jokes about type casting hallmark movies or anime characters but I mean stereotyping someone based on core identities like gender, race, religion, etc. I as someone who was born a woman do not identify as a woman because of these ideologies of what a women is stereotype is. I don't want pin straight blond hair, I don't want a perfect body, I don't want to shave my legs or my arm pits, I don't want to have cutesie neat natural makeup, I don't want to wear pink crop tops and skinny jeans. Now that is only characterizing the stereotype of what a woman is because not every woman is going to like or dislike these things. The idea that this is what a women should like or want to be is relevant into today's culture. I am not just thinking of prior generational stereotypes but the ones of today. I know that this won't change or solve how the world treats me, but it is my own act of defiance against the ones who in fo...