Banks Ch1.

While reading Castle’s, “Migration, Citizenship, and Education” I was surprised to learn about the difficulties that exist in other countries when it comes to teaching immigrant children. For some reason I just thought America was the only place that had not found a solution for helping educate minority children. In the section on controllability of differences I thought that the idea of differential exclusion was the most unjust thing that any country could do. I don’t think that it’s right to leave a group of people uneducated because they are not from the same nation-state. The fact that some places still do this is shocking to me because I have always thought that educating children should be high on any country’s priority list, regardless of where the child comes from. The reality is that transnational communities are appearing everywhere so transnational education is going to have to happen. I believe that school curriculum’s all over the world will have to change. In my opinion it’s about time things changed in schools, because there are many historical events that are left out of the history books of today and it is important for students to get different perspectives on historical events.