Wrap up Blog #11

  All of the readings have been very insightful for my educational journey that I will take when I become a teach at a school someday. However there were particular ones that really stuck out that I want to mention and talk about within this last blog post. I really appreciated and learned the most from Rodriguez, and appreciated the works of Herhir and Woke kindergarten. I am a monolingual individual and only speak English (clearly) and don't really know how the other perspective of a person in a country that they don't know the "primary" language is. Although in the US there is not a national language, English is the only one that is primary taught in schools and has a sort of stigma that has to do with the idea of Americanism and speaking the English language. This portion of the text really helped me see from a different perspective when it comes to not only language but culture and this idea that if you speak the "American" language you loose your own culture. This has impacted me so much that I would like to take up learning and becoming fluent in a second language. I took French for 5+ years in grade school but now that I haven't practiced it in 2 years I have lost so much of the language since it isn't spoken often around here. I have decided that I want to learn Spanish because of how useful the language is and how wide spread it is spoken in the US. Especially if I will be working within the Rhode Island area. 

  I really appreciate what Herhir reading on ablism was about because of personal experiences in the Educational system. Fighting for the rights of neurodivergent individuals who don't always have access to the right resources for mental health or for the ones who are properly treated is a very important issue for me because I never had that growing up. I would ask my mother to please let me get screened and she would straight up deny me that access and I couldn't do anything about it since I was under the age of 18.  This same also applies to Woke kindergartens video. Although I did have access to the education of the community and of how others operate, there is still a big issue online and within groups of people. I notices that some platforms let others hate on people who are lesbian, gay, trans, queer, etc. I just think that it is unfair to society the amount of hated online there is. I hate people on the internet.