Channing Hanks

       Throughout this module, I have learned many new things that I learned about the curriculum. My blackout poem is as follows; "When we fail to learn how violence occurs in the history of curriculum, violence contributes through trauma happening in classrooms." What this means to me is that if we are not catching the injustices that happen to our students through our teaching of the curriculum, we are creating experiences that will cause trauma to students inside our classrooms. As I have stated before, both of my parents are in the education field. My mom was a curriculum director at the elementary level for about 5 years so I found it very interesting to think back to what she was doing and how it relates to essential learning in the classroom. Overall, I think everything is worth learning. For example, in one of my other classes, we often have to reflect on our teaching style in terms of how we will plan to teach history. Every time we go over this topic, I al...

       Through my personal experience, I have found that I have no idea where the funding for schools comes from. Due to both of my parents being in the education field, I have a first hand experience of seeing them fork up their own personal money to create a better atmosphere for their classroom. This is something that is a very small aspect of the problem of schools being underfunded. When reading "Unequal School Funding in The United States" it was apparent that schools being underfunded was a problem birthed during the fundamental practices of public schools being created. A quote that stood out to me when reading was "Given the evidence reviewed above, it seems obvious that students from disadvantaged families will suffer the most from the U.S. system of unequal school funding because these students are more likely to attend poorly funded public schools."     Overall, many laws and bills will need to be passed to implement a system where schools recei...