Although there are various similarities such as the amount of time spent in school and the teachers’ styles of teaching between the educational systems of Cuba and the United States, there is one main difference, the curriculum. The curriculum in Cuba is different because of the subjects the students study. In Cuba, students are required to take a foreign language until graduation. Furthermore, they must specialize in a musical instrument until they graduate. In addition, students in Cuba have to pass all the classes to enter into the next grade.
This one fact shows evidence that David has BICS (Basic Interpersonal Communication Skills) for both languages, but surprisingly little to no CALP (Cognitive Academic Learning Proficiency) in Spanish as well as English not only for himself – but his parents as well. The NLL teacher, regular education teacher, and I (his student teacher) have speculated whether his parents have confused the NLL program to a Spanish emersion program. In addition to the NLL program at Pillsbury, David’s regular education teacher has done many things to adapt the curriculum in the classroom to fit the needs of the Spanish-speaking students. The morning meeting (focusing on the calendar, morning message, and counting on the 100’s number chart) is primarily done in English with some Spanish. The Spanish portions include the days of the week, the months of the year, and counting by 10’s to 100.
But they are not very clever at speaking Kristang! (…) because their parents both want to speak English. I speak Kristang to them; sometimes they want to reply in English]. In other cases, parents had transmitted Kristang early in the informant’s life only to change to an almost exclusive use of English when the informant attended school. Both attitudes were common in the interviews conducted in 1980-81.24 4.4.
My feelings for not speaking Spanish are that we speak more English because we are in America and that is the language spoken primarily. They have taken Spanish class and did ok but don’t use it much. My parents and I talk in Spanglish on a daily bases, especially if we don’t want to let my boys here what we are talking about. I don’t feel like not teaching them was a bad thing. I also feel like I don’t like it when I am approached by other ethnicities and spoken Spanish to.
The very first high school that I attended was Christ The King which was a catholic school, and because I was the new kid I really didn’t know anyone. So I tried to get to know some people, but because I'm shy that didn't work out for me so I just stayed talking to the one person that I knew. The environment in that school was so different as far as school work and the school district went; their rules were really strict the girls couldn't wear more than two colors on their nails, or in their hair and if so we would get a detention. We also would get a detention if we were caught with our phones or if we were chewing gum; I received plenty of detentions for my nails,chewing gum, and my phone. They had us work once a week on certain days in different places; I’ve worked in a health clinic and MB financial bank.
The children of certain circumstances are even subject to easier treatment and diagnosis of ADHD if they live in a poor community because it is cheaper and easier to change a child then the learning environment. It has been shown that the conditions of poverty are ripe to lead children into a substantially higher risk category for behavioral disorders. Race merely plays a role in identifying at risk children because African Americans and Hispanics are three times more likely to live in poverty than their white counterparts. Education, special focus and sometimes when necessary treatment is vital to reversing this trend of poverty as these disorders have an
These children are usually victims of low quality education and obstruct the income equality gap, as they grow older. Even though there are people who have earned a degree they still suffer from income inequality. In the Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare the author Raine Dozier states “black degree holders were able to keep pace in cumulative work experience, their wage trajectories flattened over their twenties, relative to both a previous cohort and young white degree holders.”(4) Is this fair to a person who may have the same degree but they are of a different race but still is a victim of this unbalanced economy? Do employers play a role in economic
One was the restricted code, this consists of a limited vocabulary with short unfinished grammar, and speech would be predicable they may even gesture instead (slang, street language.) The other code is the elaborate code this is typically used by middle class people; it has a wider vocabulary and is based on longer structured sentences. This would lead to under achievement because the language used in schools and in test papers tend to be in the elaborate code, so middle class people are again at an advantage. Finally, attitudes and values, Feinstein (1998) found that working class parents “lack of interest” was the main reason for their children’s under achievement
“When once the forms of civility are violated, there remains little hope of return to kindness or decency.” This powerful quote from, Samuel Johnson a British author, directly correlates to how I see our world today. Although Americans worry about their behavior towards one another, civility is almost absent in public places such as schools, stores, and restaurants. Children in today’s society are raised differently in terms of behavior, discipline, and morals than in the past. Year’s back, children were brought up to be mannerly, courteous and most importantly respectful. With the media being the main source of entertainment among people of all ages, we are exposed to more brutal violence, sex, and and overall deviant acts.
2) Bridging the Gap between home and society’s values Parsons said at home we have an ascribed status and therefore children are treated individually and differently from adults. However at school everyone has an achieved status under the same universalistic values. Children aren’t treated differently but as a collective group, as they would be in would be in the workplace. This helps Durkheim’s “society in miniature” as school replicates and prepares children for the workplace and society. Criticism: Many of the most powerful people had an advantage getting the best jobs due to their higher social class.