Everything academic revolves around the year-end state testing to the point that other subjects are usually neglected. Reading, math and writing are the main thrusts of schools, and are obviously important. However, critics state that children are not receiving well-rounded educations because of the emphasis on these subjects
Will children be educated enough to understand when making self-serving, society-serving or morally-based decisions, or is today’s educational criteria a form of brainwashing to help our current government stay in power? “Conflict theorists argue that the real purpose of the public school system is to reproduce and maintain the existing class structure in our society.” (123) In several sections of the book, I disagreed with the notion that education best serves society; I believe it should be the other way
It is for the purpose of labeling peers and deciphering which children are inferior, it is the social aspect of schooling. Lastly, the propaedeutic function teaches a minimal amount of children to manage the population to that the government can continue without being challenged. Initially I was taken aback while reading Gatto’s article, particularly in regards to Inglis six functions but upon further review and digging deep into my own personal experiences with the public education system, predominantly looking at my years spent in high school I would say there are some sad realities behind theses six
“ (Moore 141). While Moore focuses more on the advertising established into school and companies promoting themselves using schools, Gatto speaks more one the effect that this way of schooling creates the adults in the world. Also he explains how marketing on the school systems is keeping the adults nowadays very “childish” or young in the mind. (Gatto 149) According to Gatto if you strip children of all of their independence, and only develop their trivial emotions, they would never truly grow up. (Gatto 154).
Stating that forward progress with the children is essential in this crucial time was seen as an insult to the teachers. The new “full school day” implemented for the upcoming years was passed upon the teachers by Mayor Emanuel in attempts to meet national standards of school times. This was just the tip of the iceberg in Rahm’s overhaul to make the school systems more efficient. Other reforms included: pruning out underperforming/under attended schools, cutting funds to up to par institutions, removing the set raises over time for teachers, and making teachers evaluations based solely upon student scores. "We have been telling our parents and the city to prepare for this," Lewis said.
If the child’s parents are not educated then it can be said that they may not understand the school system and may not support the school. In conclusion, we can say that although other factors may play a role, teacher labelling is the main cause of underachievement in Britain today as this determines the set that a child is placed in in Year 7 which in turn influences their whole educational
Teachers and administrators recognize, of course, that children bring a plethora of issues with them to the classroom these days...drugs, gangs, violence, family dissolution and stress, financial hardship, and social discrepancy. There are other factors which place children at-risk as well. The number of minority and limited-English-proficiency children in schools is on the rise. We have to do all we can to help these new students, but some teachers feel very ill-prepared to do that. Schools get labeled as failing when they can get all students to the level that the state says they need to be.
Many novels challenges society’s ways, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is one of these novels. The novel is about how the government, the World State, develops humans to believe in its model, “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 1). In order to do this, the World State strips everybody of emotions, desires, and opinions. The novel is a satire of what society could become if technology became too great. Brave New World should be studied in school because it is a satire that challenges technology, human emotions, and society as a whole.
Gatto believes that our educational system was adopted. "Our educational system really is Prussian in origin, and that really is cause for concern." He continues on about how many have pointed out in the past that America has taken on such on oppressed schooling system, that system being of the Prussians. "But what shocks is that we so eagerly have adopted one of the very worst aspects of Prussian culture: an educational system deliberately designed to produce mediocre intellects, to produce mediocre life, to deny students appreciable leadership skills, and to ensure docile and incomplete citizens in order to render the populace "manageable."" He writes about how those high up who brought, supported, and funded the Prussian-like system did so to only enforce having a guarantee of a "servile labor force" and "mindless consumers."
Education has dumbed down but there are so many different aspects of the situation, fingers pointed on why this has happened. Reason of media, social, funding, whether you when to public or private schools, the extra curricular activities schools were offering. I don’t believe that just one of these subjects are to blame, but a combination of them all. Due to the No Child Left Behind Act and the Instrument to Measure Standards tests, which most states have, schools are now micro-managed by state and federal regulations. Teachers are told what they will teach and how they will teach.