An Interesting Post from my RSS Feed

An interesting post from my RSS feed was from the blog History is Elementary (http://historyiselementary.blogspot.com/). The post on this blog that I found most interesting was Students and their labels. Throughout this post the writer discusses problems in the world today with all of the different fashion that each individual student has. Many students tend to focus on brand names when picking out clothing, and picking out their friends. The author of this passage states that we all are guilty of liking certain brands, however this has become an issues with students belittling and alienating their peers because they are not wearing the same thing as each other. This then creates a huge barrier to the learning process.


To avoid such situations the author of this post meets with each student in the class every nine weeks and has lunch with them. This is her way of bonding with the students and getting to know what they like and dislike. During lunch any issues are bought up that need to be solved. It was during this time the author realized clothing bias was involved in her classroom. Due to this she decided to incorporate a history lesson on clothing to show the students that everyone has their own unique style. To really get the point across that clothing should not matter, the author uses the presidents of the United States to show the different interesting and unique ways they use to dress, and how important each person was to our country.