Literacy with an attitude

 Literacy with an attitude 

By Finn

    While reading this text, it made me reflect on my own experience when I was in school. When I was in middle school, I think it was in 6th grade. I attended a school where there was a mix of all the examples mentioned in this text. That school had a mix of upper class and middle class students. Some students were there because they had won scholarships, so it was extremely important for these children to get good grades because otherwise they were at risk of being kicked out of the school. I suppose the teacher knew which students had scholarships, because it was clear that they treated them with indifference. In my country, having a scholarship is not like it is in this country. In my country, if a student earns a scholarship, it is because they have very few resources to pay for the school they are attending.

    According to Finn, people from lower class are ignored because they (the education system) do not want them to be as the same level as the upper class. They want people from high class to be even higher to be more successful and that helps them because they have the necessary tools while they are at school. In the other hand, there is people from low class like I mentioned before they are treated with indifference because they do not have the necessary tools at school. He is also trying to say that teachers are the ones who can change this, because literacy is not just learning/teaching how to write or read, it is advocating students for a better education. When we are students, we all want to be treated in the same way, it does not matter if we are upper/middle/low class, I think being classified in a social class should not be a problem anymore.

Here is one quote that I liked

"When rich children get empowering education, nothing changes. But when working-class children get empowering education, you get literacy with an attitude"

I could not be more agree with this, because when they (working class children) get an education like that, they know they are getting more knowledge and there will have the necessary tools that will help them to get a better education.