Analyzing Teachers In Ernesto Quinonez's 'Bodega Dreams'

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In the exert from Bodega Dreams by Ernesto Quinonez the author wrote about his encounter s with various teachers of Julia de Burgos. While attending Julia de Burgos a teacher by the name of Mr. Blessington was the type to talk poorly about the Latin students and their community. He would degrade and belittle the Latin students in his class. He would tell them that they would eventually end up in the penitentiary. He felt that if they were from the Spanish Harlem neighborhood that they should drop out of school because they were not white, and felt they would never amount to a certain standard of living. On the other hand another teacher by the name Mr. Tapia spoke life into his students to make them different about themselves and their situations.

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