Troublemakers

  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 talkative and would always get called out for talking or being too loud often. I am grateful enough to not be labeled a troublemaker but there were other students in my class who were for the same things I did, but why where they troublemakers but not me? There were teacher bias, racial bias's, and stereotyping in general. The teachers would see a student filled with apathy and immediately label them a troublemaker without allowing them to be themselves or even finish a statement. This is why bias and meeting students where they are at is so important in order to become a good successful teacher is keeping an open mind and having no judgement or stereotypes on your students. Now this is a bold statement that many people unconsciously do even if they are the best teachers to ever exist. Treat people with kindness and understand there needs and expectations by keeping the regular conversation light hearted and open. :) No need to be a strict teacher without reason because that's how your "troublemakers" are made.