Anti-Oppressive Eduation

Kumashiro's article gives some very interesting insights into preventing and abolishing oppressive eduation. Personally, I think that it is very hard to eliminate the "other". People tend to organize themselves based on traits that they share in common, so for many people there will always be the "other". Knowing that, I still think it is important that teachers eliminate this oppressiveness as much as possible in the classroom. One step is educating teachers on how to eliminate oppressiveness in the classroom. This requires the school districts taking responsibility. I do not think it is possible to eliminate oppressiveness with the cooperation of one teacher. Like Kumnshiro points out in his article, it needs to be something that changed on a bigger level in society not just a small classroom. I do think that any teacher can make a difference by recognizing this problem and trying to make improvements in her classroom but once the students leave the classroom they will be faced with the same oppressiveness in other classes if those teachers are not working towards eliminating it. This article has made me realize the most that even without knowing it, you could be oppressie to a student's education. Educating teachers and making them more aware of the issue is important in starting to eliminae this problem.