Week 3 - The Jones Family

After reading about the Jones family, I started thinking about how culture and the region you grew up
in have an affect on your own literacy. I grew up in Bristol, TN, which is a relatively small town, with good public schools. Both of my parents worked so my older sister was usually the one who helped me with my homework. While I consider myself well educated, a lot of people in my high school did not go on to higher education. My older sister is doing an internship in rural Wisconsin this fall, and she said that the schools there do not start back until after their crops were harvested because the families need their children to help out on their farms during this time. Kind of like an all hands on deck type of thing. I never thought about cultural and regional differences affect schooling like this until after Erin had told me this, but it makes so much sense. With these types of families you also have to think, will their children want to move on to higher education? Or will they continue farming with their families? Just something that was on my mind while I was reading about the Jones Family.