Stories from the Field: Seeing Differences Journal 4
In my service learning, classroom I finally have gotten to know the students. All of them are different in their own unique way. The classroom is filled with primary students of Hispanic or African American decent. There are three students in the class who are white. You will see students wearing the same shirt or pants multiple times in a week. The three white kids in my class you can tell are from a higher social class. They dressed in designer clothing and I never see the student wear the same thing twice in a week. One of the girls will always have dresses on with bows or ribbons in her hair where none of the other girls have that. One of the students on a sixty-five-degree day came into school with snow boots on. Some of the students don’t even have winter jackets. They will wear just a sweatshirt outside to recess because they have nothing else. When talking to th...