Gee and Delpit Response

Both Gee and Delpit are writing about Discourse, particularly about learning the dominant discourse and literacy, and the application to the classroom. The two organize their writings in quite a different way though. Gee tends to be more dense in his language use, using a lot of complex and specialized terminology and he presents the problem of certain people having troubles learning the dominate Discourse of society in addition to their primary discourse. Delpit, however, disagrees with Gee on the notion that only certain people are able to learn this, saying that with help everyone can break through and become literate in more than just their primary discourse, they just have to be taught. Delpit uses much more accessible language in her argument and she also provides some possible solutions to the issue which Gee doesn't seem to do.
I agree more so with Delpit's views about discourse and teaching children to be literate in the dominant discourse than I do with Gee's views on discourse being impossible for some people to learn. Delpit seems much more in tune with teachers and how we can help our students to utilize the dominant discourse that is the key to power in society while preserving their primary discourse as being important and useful. She says that it is important for teachers to help children know how to use different discourses depending upon their contexts and she provides examples of how people have successfully done so and how teachers might be able to do this.