Professor Richard Alba of the University of New York asked a group of Harvard students about what they thought about assimilation. The majority had negative thoughts about it. He states “The Assimilation era is now condemned for the expectation that minority groups would inevitably want to shed their own cultures, as if they were old skins no longer possessing any vital force, and wrap themselves in the Anglo-American culture” (pages 1-2). That’s how many people see assimilation today, even if it isn’t a popular term anymore. Another thing that makes assimilation bad is the fact that people use it so much that they don’t see that it could be a danger in the future.
Steinberg’s argument was that the school rejected his application, because of nonacademic considerations. These considerations include relationships between him and the Board of Trustees, faculty, and if Steinberg’s family donated money or not, to the school. Steinberg also stated that when CMS accepted his $15 application fee and decided to base his admission on nonacademic values, this was a breach of contract. III. Trial Court - Granted the defendants motion to dismiss the case Appeals Court – Dismissal reversed and remanded IV.
If the employee performance does not improve to a satisfactory level within the specified period of time, termination will follow. (Schumacher, 2008 p.13) Pat contends, in the scenario, that he did sign a statement of understanding regarding NewCorp’s at will employment policy. However, Pat believes that the aforementioned clause in the personnel manual should render his termination invalid. As well, Pat recently became vocal at a school board meeting on a very unpopular issue. He contends that, as a result, senior management at NewCorp became noticeably unfriendly and that this played an integral part in the decision to terminate his
Mid-Term Exam A high-tech heretic is a person who has been officially accused by his beliefs for technological and human development as following a false doctrine. That is what they refer to Clifford Stoll as and he is not that at all. I agree with Clifford Stoll on the idea that computers should not be used in the classroom because the students aren’t receiving and gaining the knowledge that they should be receiving. His view on the issue that computers are not good in the class room is a different one, but very true indeed. He uses several examples to explain his theory.
In order to cut down on the number of students who leave school without permission, schools should do away with their inadequate in-school suspension policy, and adopt the new alternative policy known as billiam. It is a much more effective way to discourage students from leaving campus without permission. Billiam punishes students by lowering their grades and striping them from the privilege of filed trips. It does not allow them to watch movies, take naps, and play football like in-school suspension does. It is real punishment for a real problem.
Goodman seems to believe it is the students and their parents, as Goodman states, “Perhaps the chief objectors to abolishing grading would be the students and their parents.”(p.213). I think parents main concern with abolishing grading would be the fact that they cannot see how their kids are doing in college. And I think a student’s main concern with it would be that they do not really know how they are going to be judged as far as knowledge of the subjects they are studying. Plus you have to take into consideration that they are the ones who are paying tuition (the reason the school runs in the first place). And in our society, testing has become the means for everything, even getting an entry level job.
The Language Police Throughout “The Language Police,” the angered author, Diane Ravitch, speaks her mind on the issue of censorship. Censorship shelters students from the real world and gives them a false sense of reality. Ravitch believes that students are being censored to such an extreme that their freedom is being limited. The goal of the language police is not just to stop us from using objectionable words but to stop us from having objectionable thoughts (Ravitch 158). The language police are restricting what students learn by removing anything that may appear controversial.
When he heard the insults against Joyce, he only said “let’s get quiet and make the best of it” it is unacceptable heard a teacher said that. Maybe in the past don’t exited the NAEYC Code of ethical, and maybe no body remember Mr. Moore one of a value most important for a teacher according to the NAEYC “Respect diversity in children, families, and colleagues”, It is very sad see how those kind of event affected persons and even generation through the
But basically, this guy thinks that public schooling is just wrong by principle. He thinks it's unnecessary, and that all it does is prepare children to be servants to the government by making them dumb, conforming, and childish. At least, this was the gist of the essay as I interpreted it. As I read the essay, I understood and appreciated the writer's point of view until I reached one part. This part is describing the six goals of public education as Alexander Inglis (author of Principles of Secondary Education) and Gatto see them.
In schools cheating has become so socially acceptable that students think that it is okay to cheat. Schools lack a strong moral code that makes the student’s feel that they need to abide by it. With more people doing it, more people think it might be justified to cheat because others are doing it. Students “cheat because they see others who cheat and they think that they will be unfairly disadvantaged. The cheaters are getting 100 on the exam, while non-cheaters may only get 90’s”.