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These past two weeks I have been following John T. Spencer and his blog page Education Rethink. I have noticed that he talks about situations and issues that is school related that no one even thinks about. The first blog post that I read and commented on was This is What Happened When We Stay Quiet with the topic of the American dream minimized/absent for young students not born in the country. He states that the American dream comes with an asterisk beside the word meaning that there is something else following the word in small fine print. Students at a young age are accepting the fact they will never achieve their dreams, so why even try? It is very saddening and heart breaking to hear that the dreams of a child are crushed before they even graduate high school. The issue is so belittled that no one will even consider talking about the situation. The second video, Changing What We Can Control, Spencer discuses the topic of students experiences that are not comfortable that gives bad feedback to students. It is simple things such as locks not being on the stall doors in the bathroom. Some students who may be shy or easily intimidated, this creates uncomfortable situations. If students are not comfortable or if they have had an unpleasant situation, instead of focusing on their lesson and learning, they are focused on their uncomfortable situation. The point of his blog post, is to share his knowledge of students responses to uncomfortable situations so that teachers and administrators can beware of what is going on and help control the things that they can.