Ignorance In Classroom

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Hello Professor, I believe is a combination of both, a lot of students and even adults project their jealousy toward others by trying to hurt them making comments that are hurtful and damaging. Ignorance plays a big role as well, many times they don't know anything about a certain race, person or the cultural background of a person, but are just simply repeating what they hear and see at home, school or even at the playground. I think that from day one is important that as teachers we begin to educate our students that they should not accept such behavior as a normal way of referring to other people, I truly believe that if the see this negative behavior at home, once they start hearing the oppositive in the classroom they will begin to question

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