In chapter two, Kathleen Cushman explains how favoritism can give some students an unfair advantage in learning. A student, Diana, explained how a Spanish teacher of hers graded Latino students much harder than others in her classroom. Bias is another thing that needs to stay out of the classroom.
In high school, I had a few teachers that played ‘favorites’ with students and it did infact upset quite a number of the other students in the classroom. Looking at it from the teacher’s point of view, people do get along better with certain people; sometimes two people just don’t click. This being said, it is still the teacher’s responsibility to be able to realize when their treatment towards a ‘favorite’ student is giving those particular students an unfair learning advantage in the classroom.
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