This reading taught me that writing isn’t just about following rules it’s about how people
actually talk and live. Sánchez-Martín shows how students mix languages all the time and
it’s just real life. On page 270, she talks about how mixing English and Spanish is called
“code-meshing,” and that honestly made me think about how normal that is for so many
people. What hit me is how schools often try to make everyone write in one “proper” way,
like standard English is the only right option. It made me feel like there’s no one right way to
write, and people should get to use the languages and styles that feel natural to them. I just
don’t think it’s fair that some kids go to school and they’re taught to write one “proper” way,
and they start to forget the other languages and ways of speaking that make them who they
are. It’s like they have to hide parts of themselves just to sound “correct”.