Blog 6: Secondary Source 2

Algozzine, Bob, Cecil D. Merger, and Terry Countermine. "The Effects Of Labels And Behavior On Teacher Expectations." Exceptional Children 44.2 (1977): 131-132. Academic Search Complete. Web. 22 Oct. 2015. http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.uky.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=5&sid=e27565dd-495a-4b58-8e91-8a3e555b193a%40sessionmgr4005&hid=4205&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=20878378&db=a9h

 This article is about the effects of labels given to people and how their behaviors may be. In this case, it is about special education students. The article says that when special education students are given negative labels, that student's expectations may decrease because how the label is put on them. It also states test that have been performed with this situation. Along with the negative labels, behaviors have been becoming disturbing to their expectations which leads to believe the labels affect a person. This source is useful to my project because it brings in the negative labels. Even though the labels were put on special education students, they were still affected by them and it can happen to any group. For instance, Joliet gets these negative labels which can affect the people that live in the city and ultimately affect how they react or move on from the labels, they can either accept them or move on from them. This source provides a test of how the students took the labels they were given.     

Blog 5: Secondary Source 1

HUGH de, KRETSER. "Some Crimes Should Not Be Forever." Herald Sun (Melbourne) (n.d.): Newspaper Source. Web. 20 Oct. 2015. http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.uky.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=33&sid=19253947-16c5-42bd-9f2a-dacb8a31b883%40sessionmgr110&hid=120&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=200608241021634121&db=nfh

My source is a newspaper from Australia and the article in the paper is called, "Some Crimes Should Not Be Forever." The article talks about a woman's crime and if it should be held on her for the rest of her life. She was convicted of drunk driving one time and it began to affect her life. She was labeled "criminal" and where she is from, people take speeding as a crime. The newspaper just talks about how the lady's case went about and what happened to her. She was rejected a telephone operator job with the Emergency Services Telecommunications Authority because the offense was put on her record and her record caused her to get negative stereotypes so no other job wanted her services.This source is useful to my project because it is an example of someone's past putting a label on them. Because my community is about labels on the city of Joliet and some of those labels are because of the city's past, this source will provide a way that the past will come back or never leave you at all.

Photo Essay

Have you ever been given a label? Not a nice label though, for example, best friend, girlfriend/boyfriend, or anything like that but something mean. You may not mind at first, but after a while it can get to you and affect everything you do. My community is my hometown of Joliet, Illinois and the home of my old high school. The problem I am looking into is why my hometown being labeled, I have always known it was not the best place to live or go to school, but the labels have stuck. I want to know why these labels have not been lifted from the city I live in.  

The first picture here is a picture of a nearby town’s high school. The high school is located in the town, Bolingbrook, which is known as a wealthier town. Joliet is located between Bolingbrook and another city named New Lenox, also a city that is wealthy. The two cities have always looked down upon the city of Joliet when it comes to school and sports. First, Bolingbrook showed they care about their students by building this school, that makes it seem like Joliet does not care about where their students study and how it looks so it gives a negative impact on the city. The two cities, New Lenox and Bolingbrook, pay a lot for their students to get a good education but they go above and beyond because they have the money so of course Joliet looks like a bad school. When it comes to sports, New Lenox and Bolingbrook, but especially Bolingbrook pays a lot when it comes to sports. Being that sports are a big part of high schools, the better you are makes everyone else look like they are horrible and in this case Joliet would be the horrible team since they are stuck between the two better schools.

This house in Joliet may look like a normal, but a very affordable home. But honestly, only a little bit of the population of Joliet can afford this home. Like it was stated before, the two cities that surround Joliet are much wealthier, so in those cities the houses are huge and sell for a lot more but Joliet tries to sell for the similar prices. By doing this, some people cannot afford homes all together or live in an apartment and when you come to Joliet from one of those two rich towns, it’ll make you question what’s wrong with this city. Trying to compete with the rich towns put a label on Joliet that they are poor and incapable to house families.  

This picture represents the violence in Joliet. Unlike New Lenox and Bolingbrook, Joliet has a lot of violence and crime. In the past, a lot of gangs had started to have activity in Joliet, and it happened to stick there. People talked about Joliet and how violent it was. In the school, security is a high priority with metal detectors and stricter rules than both of the wealthier schools. From listening to other people from both Joliet and New Lenox and the person from Joliet says it is not fair to go after the whole city for a group of people that messed up in the past. The person from New Lenox resident said that they have not seen so much security in any other school than Joliet’s school.

This secondary picture shows the diversity in Joliet. It is not all of the population of Joliet but it is a sample of what the high school is like. Because of the diversity in the high school, it is seen as a bad school. The school is made up of mostly Hispanics and African Americans, and with the language barriers in some cases, it’s hard to teach. In the wealthier towns, it’s primarily Caucasian, it easier to get money for college and pay for schooling. In Joliet, a lot of these families don’t have the money to send students to college, and the school does all it can but it cannot send everyone to get a secondary education, so the school looks horrible in everyone’s eyes.    

My second secondary resource is an article. The article is named, “Stories of Success: High Minority, High Poverty Public School Graduate Narratives on Accessing Higher Education” by Richard Reddick is about the worrisome among schools that have high minority rates and high poverty rates. Joliet fits into this article because of the high minority rate in the school and continuing to come into the high school and the problems with money the school can’t get out of. The article further explains how it is harder for these kids to continue into a secondary education. Due to this, and just the location Joliet is at being between two successful schools that make sending kids to college look easy, gives Joliet a bad look to everybody. Throughout the article, Reddick talks about how hard it is for these schools with higher minorities than others that do not have to deal with high minorities. But in the article, it also gives studies that were revealed in a school that helps the minority school’s become more successful at helping students further their education.

Not only is Joliet my hometown but it has always held labels given by other people, especially people that have not lived in the city. Joliet looks to be getting better but the names have not been lifted and I want to know why they continue to see this city as a bad place.

Work Cited

Reddick, Richard J., et al. "Stories Of Success: High Minority, High Poverty Public School          Graduate Narratives On Accessing Higher Education." Journal of Advanced Academics       22.4 (2011): 594-618. Academic Search Complete. Web. 12 Oct. 2015.                                          http://eds.a.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.uky.edu/ehost/detail/detail?vid=3&sid=8552e1fb-8644-4717-935f-2f04e0ae16eb%40sessionmgr4001&hid=4103&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=76247535&db=a9h

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