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"Students Give Hope in Face of Anti-LGBTQ Rights Laws"
by Douglas Ray
When I went to a public state university, I realized how much I could learn, how much more complicated the world could be, and I achieved that by talking and listening to my classmates as much as from reading great books. I understood then that education, as John Dewey would argue, is experiential. And of utmost importance is the experience of difference and ambiguity. That's not something I was able to think about until later in life; perhaps that lack of experience made my own coming out much more pained than it needed to be.
Now, I teach in an independent school with a fair amount of racial, national, religious, sexual and gender diversity and with a commitment to increase the socioeconomic diversity. We are a boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama, where All-Gender restrooms dot the campus in order to be as trans-affirming as possible, where you'll hear a wide array of languages in the lunchroom, where passports from 13 different countries are stashed in the dorms on campus. I do not perform "straight" in the classroom or in the community.
What I've noticed is that the students I teach are infinitely more worldly wise and accepting of differences than I was at their age.
Use the passage from the "In the face of anti-LGBTQ rights laws, my students give me hope" article to answer the question.
What realization did the author gain from attending a public state university?
(1 point)
that ambiguity is irrelevant
that education should be experienced
that diversity should be discussed
that acceptance is taught
by Douglas Ray
When I went to a public state university, I realized how much I could learn, how much more complicated the world could be, and I achieved that by talking and listening to my classmates as much as from reading great books. I understood then that education, as John Dewey would argue, is experiential. And of utmost importance is the experience of difference and ambiguity. That's not something I was able to think about until later in life; perhaps that lack of experience made my own coming out much more pained than it needed to be.
Now, I teach in an independent school with a fair amount of racial, national, religious, sexual and gender diversity and with a commitment to increase the socioeconomic diversity. We are a boarding school in Birmingham, Alabama, where All-Gender restrooms dot the campus in order to be as trans-affirming as possible, where you'll hear a wide array of languages in the lunchroom, where passports from 13 different countries are stashed in the dorms on campus. I do not perform "straight" in the classroom or in the community.
What I've noticed is that the students I teach are infinitely more worldly wise and accepting of differences than I was at their age.
Use the passage from the "In the face of anti-LGBTQ rights laws, my students give me hope" article to answer the question.
What realization did the author gain from attending a public state university?
(1 point)
that ambiguity is irrelevant
that education should be experienced
that diversity should be discussed
that acceptance is taught
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The realization the author gained from attending a public state university is **that education should be experienced.**
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