After reading Delpit's "Skills and Other Dilemmas of a Progressive Black Educator", I have come to conclude that minorities living in poor, lower class areas do not have the opportunities that a person would have who attends a prep school or an ivy league school. Their educations are weaker than those attending these upper class schools and also their opportunities for desired courses may not be available. Students at these upper class schools have the benefit of being more educated and will most likely exceed the uneducated or less educated in the working society. This is based only upon statistics and technicalities.
A student or any individual has to understand the standards and concepts of learning and obtaining knowledge. Even though one person may come from a lower class family, they still do have equivelent opportunities as to those who come from the upper class. It doesn't neccessarily have to come from high school classrooms. When a person graduates high school and recieves his or her dimploma, they then are open to all these opportunities of obtaining a better education. It all depends on the mentality a person has and the strongness of their desire to become more educated.
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I also agree that after reading the text of Delpit, I had a better understanding and also more sympathy for minorites. The more I think about advantages that whites have over other races becomes more and more evident. There are many reasons as to why these minorities still have a disadvantage. For one thing, poverity is a on going cycle and its often hard to break into an upper class.
However I also think that the indiviudal needs to truly want and desire an education. College is alot of stress but I truly want my degree. A person needs to truly take the iniative to succeed at what they want to do.
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