{"id":129,"date":"2018-10-07T19:21:28","date_gmt":"2018-10-07T23:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/?p=129"},"modified":"2018-10-07T19:26:04","modified_gmt":"2018-10-07T23:26:04","slug":"what-is-the-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/2018\/10\/07\/what-is-the-difference\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the Difference?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I actually don\u2019t remember that much about 9\/11, compared to many of my classmates.\u00a0 Memory just wasn\u2019t a strong suit of my 8-year-old self growing up in Missouri, and it still isn\u2019t today.\u00a0 Back then, there wasn\u2019t a screen in every corner or pocket within the school, and my family wasn\u2019t that interested in watching TV every day.\u00a0 I vaguely remember school was let out early and my mom was quiet and silenced the radio on the drive home.\u00a0 I kept doing what I did pretty much all the time: blend in and observe intently (even if I did forget soon after).\u00a0 While nothing memorable happened to me that day, my friends couldn\u2019t say the same.\u00a0 Because when the principal and counselor pull 8-year-old you out of class to question you: \u201c<em>Do you know bin Laden?<\/em>\u201d you\u2019ll remember.<\/p>\n<p>I have always been a pacifist, the good friend that you wouldn\u2019t want to bring to a fight.\u00a0 For the past couple of years, anger hasn\u2019t been one of my go-to emotions.\u00a0 But this doesn\u2019t mean that I am going to be able to solve conflict or display good judgement.\u00a0 Teachers need both of these, and a way to connect and empathize with all of their students.\u00a0 So should a teacher share in a student\u2019s justified frustration? \u00a0Or strive to rise above it with stoicism?\u00a0 Whichever they choose, they are teaching that to the student.<\/p>\n<p>What should or shouldn\u2019t have happened to my friend those many years ago is one of the situations that I can get angry over.\u00a0 And there is far too much going on now to remind me of these injustices.\u00a0 But the number of extreme cases can shift of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Overton Window\">Overton Window<\/a> to make us not notice the small differences.\u00a0 This is what worries me because these small differences that pop up are the most common reminders to my friends of how a (race, sex, etc.)\u2013ism will continue to affect their lives.\u00a0 So I try to keep one eye on each target, one glaring down the big differences, and another on the lookout for the small ones.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I actually don\u2019t remember that much about 9\/11, compared to many of my classmates.\u00a0 Memory just wasn\u2019t a strong suit of my 8-year-old self growing up in Missouri, and it still isn\u2019t today.\u00a0 Back then, there wasn\u2019t a screen in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grad5114-contemp-pedagogy","tag-inequality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pagWZD-25","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":132,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.cs.vt.edu\/sublimeteaching\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}