Summary Essay In the article “Against School” by John Gatto, he, in a way differentiates schooling and education. He has a strong opinion about schooling itself. He was a teacher for thirty years so he knows the ins and outs of the schooling and education system. Gatto feels that getting students involved in the classroom helps with, not schooling, but an education. Gatto begins his article by explaining that “boredom” is the most common factor in students not wanting to participate in school.
Boston: Bedford, 2009. Print. Shames Laurence. “The More Factor.” Signs of Life in the USA 6th ed. Ed.
From first to fourth grade, I was still the top student in my classes. I excelled in every subject and always enjoyed learning. I remembered being the first to wake up in my family because I looked forward going to school and hung out with my friends. Until one day, we moved further away from the elementary school I was attending, and my father decided that we were going to be transferred to a school that was closer to our new home. When my siblings and I arrived to the new school, my first impression was we were being punished because the new school looked a lot like prison.
It also holds back the kids who work hard to succeed.” Many of the people I asked agreed in some way with Casey. I also asked another girl I graduated with, Lauren Maule, who now attends Eastern Carolina University, she said that she did not believe NCLB was affective because, “No Child Left Behind serves as a way to let students who do not deserve to move on in the school system, move ahead. If you do not work during the school year and can pass a test at the end and your peers did homework every night and just cannot seem to sit through a test you do not deserve to be able to be compared to them by moving on to the next grade level.” Both Casey and Lauren were in the top ten percent of our class, and neither agrees with what has happened in high schools since 2001. Who understands the effects more then the people who experienced it? I would have to completely agree with Casey and Lauren. NCLB allows students who put forward minimal or no effort to
The education bill was passed in the George W. Bush administration to make sure every school would be funded largely from local property taxes. The administration also passed a bill called the “No child left behind act” which makes the teachers and schools responsible for the students passing the skills test in order to move on to the next grade. Every school has the responsibility to make sure that every teacher is teaching the curriculum that the state requires. The national standards and testing are included in this act and it is the teacher who will suffer if his or her students do not pass the testing necessary to move on. The bill states that the teacher will not receive their yearly raise and could even lose their job if a certain
“The Achievement of Desire.” Ways of Reading. Ed. David Bartholomae. Bedford/ St.Martin’s: Boston NY, 2005. 563-581.
For many people, the thirteen years and longer that are spent in school are times of pure torture. The constant influx of homework and the overbearing concepts try their best to separate the fit from the weak. However, in his article “The valedictorian and the loser,” author Matthew House states that it is the valedictorians and the losers have figured out the educational system, allowing them to pass through school without difficulty. That applies for the valedictorian, for House argues that the current school “system” works to break the losers and turn them into valedictorians. Although House incorporates In the article, House introduces that he had always wanted to be a scientist, and he would ask to learn more in elementary school.
How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading John Holt, a fifth grade English Teacher, makes several valid points in his article “How Teachers Make Children Hate Reading”. We all know when children start off in school they have an unconditional excitement about reading and somewhere in adolescents that is lost. More often than not, teachers are caught up in making sure their children are up to grade level and the excitement of learning is lost.” Children are being forced to understand everything they read, however is this really necessary? Are traditional methods of teaching really foolish? Studies show in life we start out with a very extensive vocabulary in which we learned with repetition.
Sometimes, I used to cry after coming back home from school because I did not know what the homework meant. My teachers would try to explain it to me, but it never worked because they were explaining it in English. Although, I was the best math student in my class, I would stand in the border of passing and failing for the word problems would take me down. In addition to my problems in school, when I came to US with my family in 2008, they city was firing workers exceedingly. The biggest unemployment rate was probably
We had a couple practice writing tests and even though I tried I did not do very well on the tests. I was very nervous the day of the writing test, and I remember the prompt being pretty hard. When my teacher was calling out names to tell us our grades on the writing test, I was scared to know my score. It turned out I made a high three out of four, four being the best score to make. Throughout all my years of school with reading and writing, I never liked to read and write.