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= = = Students Have The Right To An Education Free From Discrimination. =

= Education Without Discrimination =

When students are immersed in an educational setting that makes them feel as though they are wrong or less then someone else they are not able to thrive and reach their fullest potential. This discriminative behavior can be done implicitly or explicitly by a teacher or educational community and has stiffening effects on students who are forced into this environment. Students have a right to a safe and nurturing educational environment in which they do not feel judged or inferior. No child should be denied such an education or access to literacy because of their race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, economic or social class. Students are entitled to the best education for the individual as schools work with and not against what makes them unique as a person. No school or educator has the right to judge or question what a student holds to be their own personal identity. Ever student has the right to succeed regardless of their background and personal identity. No school or educator has the right to let a student fail or neglect a student based on their personal identity.

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= An education without discrimination: = Such and education would include
 * a classroom that showed appreciation and valued each student as an individual.
 * It would also provide space for students' home culture and outside community to be brought into the classroom and incorporated into the curriculum.
 * the classroom would provide a nurturing space for students to create and express opinions freely.
 * students would be encouraged to think through problems metacognitively.
 * students would have access to technology and classroom innovations to better make connections with digital literacy.

Education without discrimination of race and ethnicity:

 * Students have the right to their own ethnic and racial identity.
 * Educators should always work with their students' unique backgrounds and incorporate them into the curriculum.
 * No educator has the right to let their student fail based on their racial or ethnic identity.

Education without discrimination of gender:
"We should not regard questions of gender socialization and literacy as zero-sum game where if girls do well in school boys must be doing poorly, or vice versa. Instead, we need to understand the complexity and shifting nature of the cultural assumptions and values that exist and offer possibilities and critiques for both boys and girls...discussion of gender and literacy in school often focus on setting up binaries between girls' and boys' interests instead of examining the culturally constructed difficulties schools present to both genders in different ways at different times." (7)
 * =====Students have the right to an education that is not insufficient because of one's gender. In many classrooms girls receive less attention because they appear to be doing well or because they feel uncomfortable in a highly competitive environment. Boys also feel the power discrimination based on gender can have as they are generalized as violent and geared away from literacy that they find meaningful.=====

Education without the discrimination of sexual orientation:

 * Students have the right to express all attributes of who they are without fear of punishment or discrimination.
 * Students have the right to an education that is free of discrimination based on sexual orientation.
 * No child should feel as though they are not safe or that they are not welcome in their educational community.

Education without discrimination of social or economic class:

 * Students have the right to an education that is not based on one's social or economic class. Since it has been proven that innovation techniques and technology enhance a student's ability to learn this right should also include that students have the right to innovation in the classroom.
 * // "The computer, of course, is the symbol of great technological shift that has occurred since World War II. Everybody knows that there's something going on with computers out there; Email, the internet, memory, bits, and bytes have entered into common usage. In the time between ENIAC and Windows 2000, the computer has become a cultural force as well as an instrument of work." // (5). Moses states that as the world changes and develops into further uses of computers and technologies students need to be well versed in both mathematics and science based literacy. The denial of these literacies is to deny students a future in the ever changing world.
 * Bronwyn T. Williams also writes about how the use of technology and digital literacy only helps to excel student understanding of literacy.// "Appealing literacy practices are not always valued in the context of institutionalized school literacy and may be overlooked, to the frustration of both student and teacher." // (6) By denying students access to technology because of socioeconomic class students lose the meaning making link to digital literacy and real world techniques.



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