By showing to the readers that he was once a public school teacher it helps them see him as an expert giving his own expert opinion. He stresses that the public school system is doing the youth of this generation an injustice. He does this through analyzing the goals of education, not schooling. He uses the third goal a lot which is to make each person their best that they can be. He also says the today’s school system suppresses the word genius.
By stating this he is suggesting that in this country it is not about what you know but who you know. Sadly meaning a mediocre education has the same amount of significance as a spectacular education. This strategy can bring the audience closer to his side because he is proving the fact that our nation is in fact ran by idiots. Another rhetorical strategy Moore proposes is the use of a sarcastic tone throughout his excerpt. “Chances are, the genius representing you in the legislature won’t score 50 percent on the above test” (Moore 132).
What is the school? Beautiful garden, a paradise of growth, the academy of special education, mental homes, many principals would describe their own school. However, the lid prop to tell people, their understanding of the school is all wrong. Turn over the documents of the United States 100 years in the education sector, control examination pass rate plummeted, and the front-line teachers complain of school education in the lid prop that the manufacture of a number of schools all mentally mediocre mind, habits of obedience, he unceremoniously school compared to the factory. What school?
By also using effective analogies and specific sentence placements, she commands the argument between her and the opposing research. Ferguson’s article uses the three classic rhetorical appeals to her advantage. Logos is efficiently utilized when she describes how schools now approximately have one million computers of which 93 percent are on-line (Ferguson, 2005, p.195). This shocking statistic sways the audience to believe that the sheer ubiquity of computers distract children from studies. Ferguson follows up with pathos by characterizing fifteen-year-old student Colin Johnson with: “the tenth grader is failing science” (196).
Today, I randomly stumbled across this enlightening essay, called Against School and written by John Taylor Gatto. Basically, this guy taught in public schools in New York City for thirty years, and as the result of his experiences, is now strongly against the way public schools are taught. Not just in the United States, but in the whole world. For a minute, I identified with his loathing of current teaching methods since that's basically the subject of this whole blog. But as I read, I realized that our viewpoints are quite different.
Persuasive essay Don’t Teach the Test Students all around the world are subjected into giving ‘standardized tests’ to evaluate their place in this world. Standardized tests have come to a point where they run the lives of students and teachers alike. The point here is to convey the misuse of today’s standardized testing and its impact on young minds. Standardized testing has come to be known as a “core issue in education” (Silverstein 1). Students are shown to have increased stress levels due to testing, for them it has become the ill fate of ‘all or nothing’.
Patrick McAuley Satire Essay 1/22/13 Bully for the Best According to an article written by MSNBC contributor Linda Carrol, everyday across our country one out of every six school kids is affected by the terrible use of bullying. Bullying is the largest problem concerning the safety and well-being of children at school. Students complain that bullying problems have driven them to lose focus in their learning, causing grades to drop and self-confidence to deteriorate over time. Bullies seem to target the weaker students, both physically and mentally. All schools say “no” to bullying, but why not say “yes”.
It reflects badly on the school when this occurs, and often provokes investigation into the administration’s wrong doings. In every state across the country the law requires that by 2014, every child must achieve proficiency in reading and math as determined by a series of high-stakes tests, leaving the definition of proficiency up to each individual state. The Center for Education Policy reports that 70% of the nation’s school districts have eliminated courses to make more
Blake McMahon Instructor Cheema English 102 02/25/2013 Cheating Outline I. Introduction a. The CQ Researcher’s article, “Cheating in Schools”, by Kathy Koch, shows the matter of cheating in the educational system. b. Recently, the students and administration have had an issue involving cheating in the classroom, because of the high bars in today’s testing.
Teachers utilize diverse procedures to control unacceptable behaviors in the classroom Lewis, Romi, Qui and Katz (2005). At the same time, however teachers endeavor to make the classroom contribute to a favorable learning environment for the students. For example using corporal punishment like caning, sending the child out of class for misbehaving, or to the disciplinarian office, or calling their parents is actually harming them as they are not able benefit from it. Classroom management has mostly been seen by teachers as something that is not simple to compromise in education. Sanford and Evertson (1981) have similarly argued that classroom management is a major difficulty for “teachers and administrators in junior high schools” (p. 34).