The Culture of Power

Delpit mentions in his article many ways in which the educational system is flawed and favored toward the white American. He mentions the issues of power and how they are shown throughout the classroom. Delpit makes an interesting point of saying that; "if schooling prepares people for jobs, and the kind of job a person has determines her or his economic status and, therefore, power, then schooling is intimately related to that power." This quote made me think about our society in general, and weather or not everyone really has equal opportunity in our nation. I would have to say from reading his article that he would agree with me as well. Those children who are recieving  a poor education have very little opportunity for a succcessful future.
One specific example of  power that Delpit mentions is something white educators introduced; dialect readers. Delpit mentions, and I had to agree that this label that is placed on some children who were taught differently how to speak, and just because it is different they were automatically placed as being wrong, which is certainly not the case. This reminded me of the article written by Robert Lake, An Indian Father's Plea about a father who was very concerned with a teachers opinion of his child being labeled a "slow learner." He was labeled quickly by his teacher just because his upbringing was not the way society would typically expect. These two articles take a deeper look at our educational system, and how there may be many flaws to it that should be fixed. We should not be looking at children and labeling them, or expecting that they learn one way, and that one way is how all children should act and learn. We should be accepting and understanding of other people's upbringings, no matter if we understand them or not.