W07 Feb, 17, 2022, Response to: Differences in Manners

W07  Feb, 17, 2022, Response to: Differences in Manners

  One of the phrases that impacted me, told by brother Ivers in the context when an object is requested in countries in Asia if the student feels socially inferior from you can adopt a certain position, extending the hands and inclining the body. Perhaps this action cannot intimidate anybody in a place with a tradition of genuflections. But the idea of a student feeling inferior, and showing it by an accepted cultural expression bothered me. Now I understand from where it comes. Nevertheless, each student needs to experiment with feelings of equality in the classroom.

Around the world, we can find many ways to show respect to one another.   Reducing the volume of the voice can be considered polite. Paying attention to the interlocutor, raising the hand to ask a question, asking permission to borrow something from a colleague, etc. In a multicultural classroom, these attitudes can arise from a cultural moment with families and teachers, where everyone can have a voice to express, ask, comment, and be guided.

Another phrase of impact to me is to do what everyone is doing around. In the last case. I would do it only in the last case. I considered it a tremendous risk because anything can be misunderstood. In my case, living in Brazil, the phrase needs to be respectfully corrected. DON'T EVER do what everyone is doing. look at the few students sitting at the front of the class, 2 or 3, at times 1. Sorry. The ashaming reality in public schools. They shout, they are rude, they don't want to be there, and the teacher hardly can teach. Last year I observed an English class with less than 10 students working, from a total of30. in the two periods of class two activities were performed, and the second they decided to do in Portuguese (But was an English class!!!) I helped in finishing a fight (literally) between a girl and a boy (12 years) This narration is not an isolated episode, these kids are good, was a good class, considered by the teacher. This is happening in the whole country. I would like to know where the bad education, the loss of values, perhaps, became so vastly expanded and tolerated that also became a culture here. My kids always came with stories from school. today Jordan told me Rafael came for a short talk to him, Rafael has autism. After he left, someone hit Rafael in the chest and a professor run to help, and that was all. I felt sick. What kind of manners, a culture of respect, love of your neighbor, is this? Then, his colleague , at classroom, ask for help, he wanted Jordan to spell the word from the board, so he could write. Jordan didn't understand. The boy confessed. "I don't know to read". Jordan stayed the rest of the period spelling for him. 13 years, teachers have been passing through grades this child. Why wasn't offered to this child the especial attention he deserved since the beggining?Inclusion, where? 

 Today, my son Jordan is turning 14 years. Y would like to see every student, as he sees them