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A teacher who grew up in a small New Jersey town talks about his students with coworkers. "In my hometown, my neighbors were people with a Polish heritage just like me. My dad was a blue-collar worker. My family didn't have much and what we did have, we worked hard for.

My best friend went to high school and college with me. His family was pretty much the same as mine. We got teaching jobs together in a suburb. When we started out, the students in the school were a lot like we were as kids. We got to be really good teachers. Then the neighborhood started to change and we were having more and more Black kids in our school-then Hispanics. And a lot of the neighborhood apartments began to fill up with families that were much poorer than the students we were used to. Both of us knew what it was to struggle, and we had a few Black friends in college, so we didn't think this was any big deal. We were really good teachers-so why change? After all, we've both always treated all our students the same.

Now administrators want us to change the way we teach these poor minorities. They say the way we teach doesn't work for these students. We need to go to workshops and learn new methods. We were poor once. Nobody changed the way they taught for us. We just worked hard. And look where we are. I'm not changing anything. These kids can learn from me if they want to bad enough. They've just got to learn how to work."

Question: The above scenario presented represents a range of reactions to our changing cultural landscape. Why do you identify with the above scenario?

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