This essay starts out with a brief story from the author of how she was always getting corrected with her grammar in school. She continues to go through her trials and tribulations of what she had experienced coming from a house of broken English. She then continues to show she tries to help her students, especially a boy named Fred that wouldn't write for her. She says that when a teacher looks at how a student is saying something and not at what they are actually saying the student's words become devalued. she continues about how it is wrong to humiliate students if they don't know what they are saying but to attend to the problems in a more private time.
I agree with this essay because i am sure every student has gone through some type of humiliation, not just with English. But after this happens we want to just crawl into a corner and not do any work. It demotivates us as students to be thrown under a bus in front of our peers. It is more important to understand what is being said and not how it is being said. Take away the main ideas of what someone is trying to say.
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