The poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.4 percentage points, did not ask about the reasons for respondents’ dissatisfaction. Steve Sisolak’s handling of the pandemic. In contrast, the poll showed a majority of respondents - 53 percent - approved of Gov. The Nevada Poll, a phone and online survey of 500 likely voters by the national public opinion firm WPA Intelligence on behalf of the Review-Journal from Friday through Monday, produced markedly similar findings when respondents were asked to evaluate how the School Board and Jara have handled the COVID-19 pandemic.įorty-six percent said they disapproved of actions taken by both the trustees and the superintendent, while 32 percent expressed approval of the School Board’s performance and 31 percent supported Jara’s moves. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal) plurality of probable Nevada voters is dissatisfied with the way the Clark County School District trustees and Superintendent Jesus Jara have handled the coronavirus pandemic, while a majority say the district’s distance learning model is broken, according to poll results published Wednesday. This class session reminded me to assess my own stereotypes and that a students' background cannot be interpreted by how he/she may look.Clark County School District's board meeting on Thursday, Feb. Many may believe that undocumented students typically tend to be Latino but the undocumented student population is made up of more than one ethnic demographic. The population that comes to mind are those that identify as undocumented. Often times, I have to check my own beliefs about the students that I work with at Pasadena City College because I do not know their complete story, I only assume that I do because we may have attended the same school or may come from perceived similar backgrounds. Having this lens allows me to be critical of my own prejudices and stereotypes that many of us live with. I studied sociology with the purpose of using it as a lens to approaching higher education. As a sociology major, I enjoyed learning about the issues surrounding race and how systemic it is in our society.
Today's class reminded me a lot of the literature I used to read as an undergraduate student. Was an important learning point from today’s class? Therefore, when we step into a college campus, we may feel as the "other" or "less than" because we are not in a space that we are used to or feel as though we shouldn't be there. Class culture can often lead one who identifies as a first generation student to believe that positive things may have happened as a result of chance because we are destined to live out a life that is similar to the ones that we see being played out by those who come from a similar background or that of our parents. Borrego is stating that class culture impacts the way one is taught to believe in the opportunities that are available to us because of the class that we belong to. These students also tend to be first generation students. Borrego offers this as a definition of Class culture to discuss the intersectionality of the multiple identities that make up incoming students who will fall under the "working class" students. Influences an individual’s basic assumptions, how one is taught to behave,Įxpectations of self and others, one’s options, concept of future, approaches Borrego meant in her paper when she said, “Class culture