“As education scholars, we cannot continue to allow poor and working-class students and other underrepresented groups and our families to struggle alone against the hegemonic designs of U.S. public school.” Prieto, The sting of social hierarchies.

In this article, Prieto wrote about her personal experiences and feelings of being an immigrant kid, which are really touching to read. She is from minority group and working-class, who has to take the burden of sharing family responsibility at a young age. Plus, his family members are resisting American culture, and avoid her from getting involve in American society. All of these factors add up the difficulties for her to adjust to the US culture. The article was published 10 years ago, and right now the cognition of constructing multi-culture educational setting has been accepted by more and more schools and educators. But, we still couldn’t deny that there are still kids and family, especially the “poor and working-class”, are struggling to fight with social bias in and out of schools. In my opinion, schools and teachers could play important roles to redirect this trend. School is the primary environment for immigrant kids to contact American cultures. If teachers could form a classroom culture to appreciate the contributions of working-class, and foster a positive view toward the immigration groups, students can model their teachers and gradually redirect their previous bias on different social classes. Currently, especially during recent years, schools have put more attention on multi-culture learning environment. And, more and more educators are joining to fight against the “hegemonic designs of U.S. public schools”. Hopefully, more students from poor and working-class could find out a better way to define themselves and face future challenges positively.