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Cynthia Silverio

Cynthia Silverio

Early childhood educator (M.S., Lehman College) and lead teacher at the Sugar Hill Museum Preschool (Broadway Housing Communities), New York.

Sep 28, 2026

6:17
Cynthia, would you speak about your ethical scenario?
6:21
Sure.
6:22
So my ethical scenario came about based on kind of like a research within my Lehman College community.
6:31
When we started sharing our experiences growing up in a school setting, I started hearing a lot of common scenarios where Someone would say, yeah, my mom sent me to this particular school in this great neighborhood, but I didn't feel seen or I felt like I needed to be accepted or I just didn't have a good experience.
6:53
And that was a very common answers that I would get from a lot of students in the college when they were talking about their school experience.
7:01
And I would ask them, where did you go? And they would say, Very prestigious schools, schools that require tuition on a yearly basis.
7:08
So I started thinking, hmm, are these schools really better for us in a sense? Are they really kind of seeing the whole child? Are these children really having experiences that would give them opportunity, but are they really...
9:21
How do we get there? When you see a situation like that, what do you think are ways to, in fact, make the school sensitive to cultural diversity?

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