This class has allowed me to see various views of what it means to be literate and how literacy and the education system effect students consistantly. Having read and written about scenarios that I may not normally consider, I really saw how "literacy" can be misleading and that education (or rather certain types of teachng) can be be less than helpful to students. I have seen that people need space to write what they know and wrte what they love. Students need to have space to be themselves in order to be productive within another Discourse. Likewise, students need to be seen as a diverse population with different families, lifestyles, and experiences. Teachers need to edjust their lessons to the child, not the child to the lessons. When students are given this opportunity they will put more effort nto their writing. They will hopefully see the vaule of what they are learning and what they can accomplish with thier writing. In order to do this, teachers must take a second look at what being literate means to them.