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The idea that the student was a victim of literacy withholding by his primary teacher before and after maternity leave. They feel as if that nothing was ever taught to him and his peers within his class, that they were just occasionally given busy work. “For the 42 minutes I was in that class, not a single thing was taught to me.” The student feels that their education has been neglected, and that they’ve had a semester’s worth of knowledge and literacy withheld from them. The idea of a victim narrative, revolves around the concept of being abused in some way. “The popularity of the victim narrative in student texts indicates that students associate school-based literacy practices with oppression and even cruelty.” The student feels abused by the neglecting and unprofessional style of the teacher, pregnant or not.
This young and fragile student has the desire for literacy taken from them, withheld, by a teacher who didn’t want to be there, and clearly had no desire to complete their job. At an age where a student is being assigned to do a book report on the topic of their choosing, it makes little to no sense for a teacher to claim something as overly childish. “I remember one time we were assigned a book report on our “book of choice”. But once I picked out my book which was the first Diary Of a Wimpy Kid, she said I couldn’t do my project on it because it was too childish, which I found confusing because I was only 10 years old and was a child.” At that age, a student really shouldn’t have to be worrying about the concept of a book being to childish, as they themselves are but one year removed from not even breaking double digits for age. It’s an infantile way for an elementary grade teacher to make their students life more difficult. A literary sponsor is defined as someone or something that can promote or withhold literacy from someone. “I defined sponsors as “any agents, local or distant, concrete or abstract, who enable, support, teach, and model, as well as recruit, regulate, suppress or withhold literacy and gain advantage by it in some way” (Brandt, 1998, p. 166) Since a literacy sponsor is capable of withholding someone from literate material, these two connect, and also fall within the idea of a victim narrative., being that the student is being victimized by the teacher, and puts 100% of blame on them.
TMT
Old Teacher, getting ready to approach retirement
Scary demeanor, showing little no no real connections
Withholds student from book of choice in elementary school
Perceived “argument” with mother, no other details given
Doesn’t have a disdain for reading, but won’t do it on own anymore
LNHE
Child prodigy type of opening
Enjoyment of reading at a young age
Heavy interest in adventure, specifically Greek mythology
First introduction to assigned reading. Hunger Games
Unusual sense of forced work, makes it slightly less enjoyable and becomes more of a bearing
Teacher doesn’t take job seriously as they’re getting ready to depart
Little to no assigned work
No benefit of work
Mainly just busy work
New teacher results in a culture change
Actual learning, and a sense of literacy
New teacher leaves
Old teacher comes back and continues original practice despite returning to form
Really jumps around a lot
Helpful and passionate teacher inspires one to do a greater job
