Racial Differences In The Book 'White Teacher' By Mrs. Paley

Kindergarten plays a key role in a children life. As being someone who hopes to become a teacher; I couldn’t imagine going through the things Mrs. Paley did. In “White Teacher”, it addresses the racial differences in the classroom. I wonder how today teachers would have handle racial issues within the classroom. Mrs.Paley was a Kindergarten teacher who had the pleasure of teaching in an integrated school. Mrs. Paley was the only teacher willing to teach children of different color. Mrs. Paley writes in “White Teacher” her expensive as a teacher who had to teach children of different ethical and culture. I couldn’t see myself teaching in this time period, because of the hate people had on integrating. Mrs. Paley is a perfect example of how someone should have handled this situation. This book teaches a very important lesson on racial differences and on social differences in society in this time period. In this time period, people didn’t like change. People believed that things should stay as there were. For example, having two schools were a good idea to people.
Paley is face with the challenge of having to teach black students. Mrs. Paley challenge was to teach a single black student in an all-white class (her name was Alma). Alma, struggle to get alone with the other (white) students. Alma really didn’t listen to Mrs. Paley. Mrs. Paley tied everything she could have possible thing of, but nothing was working. One day Alma got hurt and Mrs. Paley consoled Alma. Mrs. Paley used words that Alma’s mother or any other black mother would have used to help make her child feel better. “Alma baby, my pretty colored baby. Now hush, y’all Hush, Alma honey” (Page 4). Trust came