QTPC – 10/14/09 October 14, 2009
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QTPC – 10/14/09 Adam Banks
Quote:
“I’m housed in a coat room,” says a reading teacher at another school in Irvington. “I teach,” says a music teacher, “in a storage room.” Two other classes, their teachers say, are in converted coal bins.
Talking Point:
For someone to be able to teach or learn in these types of conditions would be very difficult. It’s no wonder why black students back then didn’t have very good education, because the conditions were definitely not sufficient for students to be able to achieve a proper education.
Connection:
The places that these students were learning were just like the living conditions for Jews during the Holocaust. They were in very small, cramped rooms. The difference was that the students chose to go to school where the Jews were forced.
QTPC – 10/7/09 October 8, 2009
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QTPC – 10/7/09 Adam Banks
Quote:
I ask him how he gets here.
“With my father. On the train,” he says.
“How long does it take?”
“It takes an hour and a half.”
Talking Point:
In order for this particular black child, who is seven years old, it takes a total of three hours of travel to and from school. He has to take the train because his family is poor. They live in The “Times Square Hotel” which is a homeless shelter in Manhattan. Also, it would only take 20 minutes to get to the actual nearest school, but since schools are segregated he has to take the train an hour and a half to get to his school.
Connection:
This scenario is exactly what a lot of black people went through back in that time. Whether they were children going to school or they were adults going to work, a lot of black people back then had to travel great distances in order to get to school or jobs because of segregation and poverty.
QTPC – 10/5/09 October 6, 2009
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QTPC – 10/5/09 Adam Banks
Quote:
“This, of course, is pie in the sky. You asked me what I need so I have told you. If I’m dreaming, why not dream the big dreams for our children?”
Talking Point:
This quote brings up the fact that if you dream, why not dream big. As an adult, why not dream for your children to be able to do better than you did.
Connection:
As a kid people dream of what they want to be when they get older, and when you’re young, you dream big. Well as adults we also need to dream big, not for ourselves, but for our children.
QTPC – 9/30/09 October 1, 2009
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QTPC-9/30/09 Adam Banks
Quote:
“Shadrack, Noria says, is the wealthiest member of the settlement. That is why he lives in a shipping container, instead of a makeshift shelter of newspapers, plastic, canvas and corrugated iron sheets, like the rest of the residents.”
Talking Point:
The members of this society seem to be very poor. None of them have an actual structural home; instead they use materials that normally wouldn’t be used for house. The wealthiest person in the community lives in a shipping container.
Connection:
The people in this society are a lot like the people in Disgrace because they are poor, and live in harsh living conditions. Although the living conditions are difficult, the people in this society have strong relationships just like the people in Disgrace.
