"Skills and Other Dilemmas..."

This reading really opened my eyes up to the various factors that can effect the education of an individual. The writing demonstrated how minorities may not come from a background where they are pushed to achieve their potential, like most white family's push their children. Let's face it, the way they put it is if they do not live in a great neighborhood or have lots of money, African American children will not receive the best education possible. In Delpit's writing it says numerous times that the schools should be teaching "fluency" of writing, rather, than concentrating on the "skills" of writing. Delpit felt this way because if a child is trying to express themselves and they are shot down telling them that this is wrong and this is wrong, the student may be discouraged from writing. It is just a difficult situation and even for Delpit being a Black educator, she wants everyone to excel not because of race but because they show a genuine interest.