The Politics of Teaching literate Discourse

By reading this article by Lisa Delpit, I wasn't able to understand the article to well. But i agree with it, that teachers need realize about discourse. Teacher must know about students back round, so then they can understand there students better. In the area they are lacking in by knowing their back round, where they come from a teacher would be able to help them better. It gives a lot of examples where teacher paid attention to there students, then the students did much better in the class room. Example of a student who wasn't getting admission in to med school, by paying close attention to him one year. Next year same student was accepted in to med school.

i just want to be Average

"No matter how bad the school. you are going to encounter notions that don't fit the assumption and beliefs that you grew up with-maybe you'll hear these dissonant notions from teachers. maybe from other students, and maybe you'll read them. you'll also be thrown with all kinds of kids from all kind of background" (89).
The article by Mike Rose is talks about kids struggle through high school. how he had so many different teachers good one and bad ones. I think he is right when he says that school is place u meet so many different people, from them u learn many different cultures. I think he is right when he says that theres some stuff that u only learn from your class mates, that u would never learn from your books or from teacher.