Pushout_Grace

Hello readers and welcome back!! I am more than excited to share what I have felt about this book over the week. I will be telling you about what I may think the author's purpose is of writing this book, Pushout. Looking at this book as a big picture, I, personally, thought that Morris wrote this book to spread awareness of the criminalization of Black girls in school in our generation. Before I started reading this book, I only thought that the mistreating of Black students were existent in the past before we were born and they did all kinds of work to survive. This book shocked me when I started reading it and started exposing me to current happenings such as trafficking that is happening to female Black students instead of going to school on a daily basis and being mistreated by teachers regularly. Although I am aware of the racism that is existent in schools today, I learned that there are still students out there who are suffering from trafficking just to survive. Looking a...

Hello readers and welcome back to my blog! Today, I decided to link the content that I have read for this week to some current events. Hopefully, you can relate and understand better since it is something that is happening in the generation that we live in. I thought that this chapter really focused on the sex trafficking that was occurring to the female students in school. Morris specifically inserts dialogue between her and some students about how they live their life as a "prostitute." But as I read the conversation between the author and the student, I could see that this is not the student's choice by all means. I personally thought that their lives were technically "controlled" by the "pimps" that they mention which are also known as men who are way older than the students. " "If you haven't eaten in a week because there's no food in your house," Bobbie in New Orleans said to a group of us discussing life in trafficki...

Welcome back, readers! I'm excited to share what I have read over the week. In chapter 2, Morris starts the chapter by, again, talking about 2 different students who had been arrested by the police because of actions such as "kicking and scratching, which presented a threat to the safety of others in the school, specifically her classmates and her teacher" and "throwing books, toys, and wall hangings, amounting to a "tantrum"..." Again, as I mentioned in the previous blog, it amazes me how the author draws my attention to the book by starting off with interesting incidents that she had heard about from different people. I personally felt that she was using logos to appeal what she had researched about preschool. These numbers of percentages definitely gave me an idea of how the numbers of Black children who had out-of-school suspension had increased over time. This would definitely help the readers to be able to image the increase that has happene...

Hi everyone and welcome to my blog! I will be reading a book called Pushout , written by Monique W. Morris. This book talks about the criminalization of black girls in school. In one chapter, the texts are separated into several "mini-chapters" with different titles. For instance, in chapter one, several passages/ paragraphs were separated into eight mini-chapters. Throughout this book, I will be selecting a couple of sections from the chapters that I am reading and analyze them accordingly. Bad Girls Do Cry   "Seventeen-year-old Portia grew up in the Bay Area foster care system. She was a larger girl in height and girth, and felt that her physical stature made her both a target and perpetrator of bullying (27)."   " 'I had on white shorts and a white shirt. We was at the park and it was muddy. We were playing by the creek, but I wouldn't go near [the water], so I was standing at the edge. And the teacher came behind me and pushed me... and I w...