peer mediation

In Sleeter and Grant, they talked about peer mediation and the rise that it's been taking recently. In middle school, I had the opportunity to become a peer mediator. We had to go to training for it and I remember doing several activities dealing with the recognition and prevention of discrimination and prejudice. We had several speakers come to speak to us as well as our team building activites. We worked on the ability to see past the outside of a person and to look deep inside. We had to keep an open mind because we were the ones that were supposed to help settle arguments. I remember listening to several people at the training who were making racist comments and I sat there thinking how ignorant they were. I can not believe people like that. I am glad to read that our educators are taking steps towards elevating many of the racist and prejudice thoughts that are still occuring today.