Social Justice in Classrooms

                The article I chose to read made a very good point about what classrooms should be and how they will assist in creating a better learning environment for the students. The article I read talked about social justice being how teachers not only teach to the standard curriculum, but that curriculum should evolve to fit the students as well. My article stated, “…schools and classrooms should be laboratories for a more just society than the one we live in now. “ I took this as we must not let what holds back the children or makes them different outside of the classroom influence how we treat them inside the classroom and how everyone can be equals once they hit the classroom. Classrooms are supposed to be a safe place, a place built for learning. Social justice is not set up for one class, but rather universal throughout the classes and is meant to be applied so that every class in society has an equal chance in life.

                When applying social justice to classrooms, knowing that every student has an equal chance as given by not only the school district and staff as a whole, but individual teachers who are with the students every day. Social justice is important for our classes because to allow everyone to succeed you must create an environment beneficial to all students no matter their background or the classes they come from. All students deserve an equal chance to learn and learn as equals to all classmates in any classroom. Intelligence is not decided upon what class we are born in, but rather by how much we allow ourselves to learn and the opportunities we take to learn as much as possible.  As the article I read explained, our job in the classroom is to ask the important questions and get students to question the norms of society and individual problems we tackle. Getting students to believe in themselves no matter what class they come from is one of many incredibly hard tasks we will deal with, but in the end using the principle of social justice, we can run successful classrooms and attempt to make everyone feel equal.

                From all of my searching and looking at articles, social justice plays a large role in addressing our classes and how we can adjust things to allow everyone to become equals. If we keep an eye on things such as this, it will allow us to run a smoother classroom and make everyone on the same level. While there are things we can not change, making everyone feel as equals is one thing we can have an influence on.