Tessa Roberge's Blog

   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...