Challenging our Labels:

 Rejecting the Language of Remediation

 Written by: Arturo Tejada, Jr.

                   Esther Gutierrez

                   Brisa Galindo

                   Deshonna Wallace

"we were better than our labels, and now we had to work harder to challenge the entire structure of academia and prove who we really were...."-Arturo Tejada Jr.

• This is a nonfiction reading in which real people go about changing their thinking about how others label them. They talk about how their are beneficial literary sponsors and ones that aren't really good at being literary sponsors.Which is what Deborah Brandt talks to us about. Who teaches us how to communicate and write is important to where our ideas goes.

• The challenge here is to go past what others may perceive about us based on how little they know regarding us as individuals. But beyond that we are supposed to have good literary sponsors to guide us and help us through. The good literary sponsors in each of these peoples stories were their teachers. The ones that were bad was the university by using such terms as "remedial" to define each of these students.
• The definition of remedial is "provided or intended for students who are experiencing learning difficulties." Now all these students were accepted to universities and felt pride in doing such things. But then the university put them in classes with the title remedial. Which made these students stomachs fall because of the title they were given. 

• Ways they fixed the way of thinking went all the way back to the English professor who challenged them to do more and be more in everything they did. They were challenged to write what they thought and how to change the way they felt through writing. They knew they didn't need "fixing"