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 Safe Spaces talks about problems faced by LGBT youth in society.  The goal of the writing piece is to inform the readers of the hardships the LGBT youth face and how those hardships are unnecessary and can be avoided.  The chapter we were given to read covered the problems the youth face in classrooms and the affects they have on the youth.  Classrooms are traditionally seen to stay apart from a students outside life, yet thats just simply not the case.  What goes on in a classrooms can spill over into a students outside personal,religious, and extracurricular lives.  An interesting piece from this article is how much the author places the job,of being a safe place for exploration of the world as well as ones self, on the schools to be an inclusive learning environment.  This is just not true as most classrooms do not do this job.  The authors also place blame on teachers yet explain that they understand that sometimes teachers don't mean to mar...

Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us is a writing piece written by Linda Christensen.  Christensen has the opinion that “ Our society’s culture industry colonizes their minds and teaches them how to act, live, and dream.  This indoctrination hits young children especially hard.”.  I think this is especially true today in 2018 as technology is so dominant our young children have access to the internet, giving them almost unlimited access to the world and whats happening in it.  This can lead to the young children adapting their behavior to mimic what they see online or in movies or of others, especially as children don't know as much as people older than them and can fall into the stereotypes being put forward by society.  This can be referred to as the “secret education”.                Christensen then goes on to give an example of the affects of dissecting society and the secret education on one of her students. ...