Faulkner finds fault in the school's various efforts to transmit school based literacy to adolescent students using traditional methods in writing (read, write, interpret text). The article tells of (student) Bebe who "presents a snapshot of a student struggling with the school-based academic literacy favored by his teacher". Bebe tells the researcher that he "can write a sentence pretty good without changing it" ... and that the teacher "speaks another language". The author suggests that literacies are inclusive of cultures and teachers must draw from the "private literacies of the world beyond the school".
Teachers tend to marginalize students that the schools say they most want to engage, and fall short when they shuffle the student that does not fit the general mold into lower level learning.
Reflection: It seems that the schools simply want to by-pass students that do not fit the traditional form in the classroom, when they should be focusing on the student's needs -- not simply the subject matter/content being taught in the classroom.
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