Chapter 3: Families and Communities

All students can achieve at high levels regardless of the structure of their families.

Whether a teacher agrees or disagrees with a child’s family structure they should never show it. In the case of a young boy in elementary school by the name of Marcus McLaurin, his teacher humiliated him in from of his classmates.  His teacher pulled him out of recess, and made him go to the principal and then  to a "behavioral clinic where he was forced to write time after time, "I will never use the word gay in school again"(Roffman,2004,p.34)  as sited in The Joy Of Teaching. The graph on page 98 shows that 68% of children come from  a mother and father family, so that means 32% of families do not.  Is it the right of a teacher to say that they are “un normal” and turn their back on them, and make them feel ashamed of where they come from?  No kid should hear that they cannot tell the truth of their family and should be punished for doing so. For a teacher to put these children down, they lower the child’s confidence and lower their chances to do well in the classroom. So whether the child comes from an "un normal" family or a normal family teachers need to be aware of how the effect the student in doing so.