Response to Mz. Christa

Firstly, Christa excellent job on the first "official" blog essay on Literacy Schmiteracy!!! Very well done!
I thought "safety" was a really interesting factor brought up in Farr's essay. I never really thought of it as an element that affects literacy but it definetely does. When a child doesn't trust a teacher, unwilling to exspose weakeness, work never really can get done and functional literacy becomes a harder thing to achieve. Also, if someone is too afraid to go to school in the first place or is uncomfortable in their learning environment that creates conflict. In "Freedom Writers" some of the students rarely show up to school either because they don't trust and respect their teacher or because they don't feel "safe" going to school because of the environment in and around the institution. Even when they're in the classroom they feel unsafe and distrustful of one another which doesn't make the class easier to instruct for the teacher. Which limits her ability to provide the literacy studies they need.
I also enjoyed Christa's notion "that we, as a society, are never fully literate". I think this is true. Literacy is ALWAYS changing and I think sometimes, as a society, it's difficult to keep up with the ever-changing ideas and standards concerning literacy, which makes "ultimate" literacy difficult to achieve.