Racism WI#3

Racism is something that has been part of me my whole life. My own kind are not the only ones that experience racism. I have lived her in Utah most of my life and have not witnessed racism on my self as others have in other states. That does not mean that one day I will not be targeted. In the race batters video i showed that in the beginning it was racism on the whites, the poor whites that could not afford to make a living. Then it went to blacks racism was triggered to on the blacks. Now we live in a world that we though racism has been put behind us, and we started to live in a better world. I believe that we all deserve to be treated equally no matter what color your skin is. With the new leadership that we have now it seems like he is promoting that being racist is okay. It is making people think that miss treating others is not a bad thing because of their skin color. Like Mattew Cooke said "the same color red gives us all life" we should not look down at some one because of their color. We are all created equal and there for we should all be treated equally.

I am Hispanic women with immigrant parents. They are undocumented, and always live in fear that they will be deported. They came here looking for a better life, and they found it, but they also found that they have to watch their backs everywhere they go. Even I live in fear that one day I will get a call from they saying that I will no longer see them again. Just because they look different does not mean that they should be treated different. Here in Saint George we have had friends, and family members that have been accused of being illegal immigrants, just because they have the Hispanic characteristics. 

I have been in a car with a coworker and have gotten pulled over because she did not have her head lights on. They asked her all they usual question, and she complied. The odd thing that was asked of her is if she was "a citizen". That has nothing to do with the fact that her head lights were not on. She did answer him that she was, he wanted to see proof, and that was going too far. My coworker did say that she did not have to disclose that information to him, and she asked for his badge number. The officer knew that he was in the wrong and apologized, she still asked for the badge number because he did not want to give it to her. 

People assume that we are illegal because of the color of our skin, but they should not be so quick to assume, because one never knows what the situation is.

Privacy WI#2

Everyone has always wanted privacy. Privacy is as security blanket for a lot of people. Sometimes we think that just because we have our settings set as private, we think that no one can see our information, but in reality there are always ways that your info can get out there and others can see what we don’t want them to see. Even with my searches that I do on my own I could be searching about makeup on one computer and then search about books on another computer, but somehow they have linked me between the two searches even when they are total different computers. It advertises my search about other makeup artists and other tutorials that I should watch.

For those that post their whole life on social media I can see where privacy could be an issue for them. Posting every single detail of your life on there and then turning around and complaining that there is no privacy, everyone knows about their business, or why people are nosy. It doesn’t really help to their whole life is on the internet so that defeats the purpose of privacy. For the celebrities, it’s hard to have a private life because they have paparazzi following them wherever they go watching their every move.

Just like in this statistic the main sources of internet privacy worry is fraud. As of 2016, the threat to online privacy comes from a few different directions. On one hand, in the United States, online hackers are feared by some 96 percent of internet users. Disclosure of sensitive personal data such as credit card information or social security number, which can lead to stolen identities and financial damages, is the most common fear of internet users. A 2015 study shows that payment card fraud losses in the United States have been increasing recently. It estimated that by 2018, more than 9 billion U.S. dollars will be lost due to payment card fraud, 6.4 billion due to CNP (card not present) transactions, where the card is not physically available during the purchase transaction (as in the case of online or mobile purchases) and only 1.8 billion due to counterfeiting.




Even from personal experience working at a bank I witness this a lot. Especially in the elderly people, scammers scare the people and let them know that they will ask some questions for their protection. They don't know any better so they give them all the information, and that's how they get a hold of their information and accounts.

I think that a good app would be one that would start your crock pot from home. Being able to not be at home and automatically start your crockpot dinners from your phone. Working full time and going to school full time, this would benefit a lot of those wives that don't have time to make dinner.

#WI1

Going through school I always thought that I was not as smart as the other kids in school. I was always telling myself that I needed to try harder so I could be at least at the level of learning that they were in. Because I thought that way I did not think that I would be able to go to college and get a degree. I am a minority here in Utah so in the schools eyes they automatically thought that I was a slow learner. So I was put in the ESL (English as a second language) program. Little did they know English along with Spanish were both learned that the same time.

My parents would talk to me in Spanish but I would learn the English language by watching cartoons and starting school early. At school I would talk English and at home it would be Spanish. If the school would have bothered to test me at what level I was learning they would have seen that I was learning at the same level that the other students were as well, but they had an automatic assumption and decided to just take the easy rout instead of the right steps to place me in the right learning level.

I feel that a lot of minority students feel thins way because they get stuck in lower level classes and get the stereotype that they are not as smart as the other students.

in Learn NC it is stated that 

"We can see from the US Department of Education figures that over-representation is occurring in schools across the country. No evidence exists to show that minority students have innately more exceptionalities than white students, so why is this happening? The answers lie in socioeconomic status and pre-conceived notions of race.

Teachers who lack experience with minorities or preconceived notions of how they learn also tend to refer minority students for special education services more often. Schools with high minority populations have lower risk indexes than schools with small minority populations. And districts with a high percentage of white teachers have higher minority risk indexes than districts with more minority teachers. Additionally, teachers who do not have experience with students who do not have English as a first language may refer an ELL student for special education if they are having difficulty instructing him, when really he needs ELL classes. Unfortunately, when it comes to recognizing the gifts and talents of minority students rather than their deficits, we have a long way to go".

Even teachers need that training to be able to tell the difference between a student that needs special education and students that just need English learning lessons.

Also in elementary and middle school technical assistance center states

"A child's race and ethnicity significantly influence the child's probability of being misidentified, misclassified, and inappropriately placed in special education programs. Research shows the relationship between race and ethnicity and other variables for students' placement in special education classes. Variables such as language, poverty, assessment practices, systemic inequities, and professional development opportunities for teachers have been cited as factors that play a role in disproportionate representation". 

So being a minority does not mean that we are not at the learning level that others are it just means that the schools just look at our ethnicity and automatically assume that we need special education programs. These assumptions are not fair, it puts the student in a position of that prevents them from moving up in their learning all because of assumptions, and teachers not knowing the difference between ESL and ELL.