Internship Reflection Introducing Nice White Parents PDF

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Reflection to the assignment to listen to 6 hours of the New York Times Podcast "Nice White Parents" and write down a personal reflection and response. ...

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Teichmann 1 Lily Teichmann Yucan Chiu Field Practicum September, 2020 Introducing Nice White Parents For this week’s reflection I chose the New York Times podcast and article “Introducing Nice White Parents”. I watched all the episodes of the podcast over the span of a few days. The podcast was about being a white parent in the New York City public schools and the podcaster, Chana Joffe-Walt, a reporter and parent to New York public school children, chose to focus on one school and her experience watching it transform and battle social, economic, and racial issues. She truly wanted to draw attention to important issues and worked for a long time to make a comprehensive first-person account detailing the facts of what the school and the parents were doing. She also held numerous interviews with parents, administrators, teachers…etc. some who wrote for racial change decades ago. Her research covered years and years of the school’s history she even delved back into the public records that documented even the smallest complaints. I never knew that even a single note that a parent wrote complaining about a teacher would be kept in public records for so long for anyone to see. I liked that part of her podcast was not only sharing the inequality she witnessed first-hand and giving a very realistic narrative of what happened, but also shared and encourage other parents or any other members in the community to get involved and push for positive change in their local government. Throughout the podcasts she shared several resources and strategies she used to get in contact with people in positions of power so that the listeners could feel inspired to make a difference about an inequality or fault that they feel passionate about....