Rajin Patel Period 3 1/9/11 Miss Woodward Discrimination In the wake of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination Miss Elliott thought it would be practical to create a small scale discrimination experiment in her third grade classroom. This exercise would help the children to see the nature of racism and prejudice at an early age. First Miss Elliott divided her all-white classroom into two groups. The two groups were the children with brown eyes and the children with blue eyes. This caused the children to see differences within each other, which would cause them to become exposed to the real world’s problem of racism.
It gives us a chance to express what we might like to do or something we enjoy. But Gatto has the nerve to imply that public schools diminish creativity. I remember in 4th grade my English teacher gave us a paper on what we would like our future home to look like. She said, "be creative" while going about your paper. Now a freshman in college, teachers still praise me to use in (as well as students in my classes) in school projects, essays, and artwork to be as creative as possible.
Myah Clark Professor Collier English112.SMRT 2 21 November 2014 Essay #2 Public Schooling: Draining Students of their Freedom and Creativity In John Taylor Gatto’s “Against School”, he explains how he thinks public education cripples our kids and why. He starts his article out by making a point that both the students and teachers are suffering from boredom. The students also pointed out the fact that the teachers didn’t seem to know much more about what was being taught then the students themselves. On the other side of the spectrum the teachers are just as bored because they feel the students are rude and only interested in the grades. He then continues on to say that we shouldn’t blame the teachers or the students; in this case, we should blame ourselves.
The technical convention of close-up shots is used to show the importance of education through the facial expressions which show desperation, anger and joy of the families of children applying for charter schools. During the final scenes of the documentary, we learn that some children were accepted and some were not. This makes the reader sympathize with the children who were not accepted. The symbolic convention of body language is used to show the importance of education through Ruby’s actions in the isolated classroom. On the seventh page of the book, Ruby is focused on doing her work in an isolated classroom; Ruby seemed to ignore the fact that she was isolated and fully immersed herself in her textbooks.
My attention flitted here and there” (Rose 160). Not only he didn’t pay attention in class, but he “fooled around in class and read my books indifferently” (Rose 160). Rose became incompetent because there was no level set by the teachers and the “Students will float to the mark you set” (Rose 160). During the course of the school year Mike narrates how he is being abuse emotionally and verbally by his so called “teachers”. Rose describes why and how his teacher abuse authority in him and on other students and he says, “When his class drifted away from him, which was often, his voice would rise in paranoid accusations, and occasionally he would lose control and shake or smack us”.
FREEDOM Freedom is the story of Joyce M Jarrett a professor of English, who wrote “I was propelled to my new liberty more out of a sense of mission.” as she said she discover the real freedom when she liberated herself of the bad feelings that let her experience of attended the all-white high school where she suffer demonstration of racism by the students and her geometry class’s professor. According to the writer, Joyce M. Jarrett the first day in school her teacher Mr. Moore fail her by ignoring her when she tried to be part of his group. When she decided to attend an all-white city High school and be part of a society, where everyone has the same right, but when she was sitting in the classroom surrounded by empty desks because no one wanted to be near to her and she has the courage to ask a question, no matter how strong the atmosphere of declination was that she could breathe in the room, she raised her hand until she heard Mr. Moore said “I see that there are no questions. Class dismissed” it was a painful and dehumanizing incident that broke her heart into millions of pieces. The
These people felt that if they tried to rock the boat and fight for equality the rights they have already acquired will be stripped away. In Melba Patillo Beals autobiography Warriors Don’t Cry the anger against her integration of Central High School was evident in the African-American community around her. Melba and the other 8 students integrating Central High School not only endured the constant bullying by their tormentors inside the school they had to endure the loneliness of being abandoned by their community and all their friends because the community was afraid of the repercussions they would endure because of their involvement with the
Lilly is the worst student Mr. Mali has ever seen addicted to use the word like. The situation gets really bad when the entire eighth grade began to call her Like Lilly Like Wilson Like. This continued until Mr. Mali made his classroom a Like-Free Zone. Lilly could not talk for days and when she did, she told Mr. Mali that it is so difficult and now she has to think before she says anything. Also, Mr. Mali told Lilly it’s for her own good even if she does not like it.
For instance if a teacher tells a seven year old that he/she is dumb and can’t do anything besides a line leader then the child will take that seriously, and think that it’s true. In the nonfictional article, “Preparing Minds for markets”, written by Jonathan Kozol, he mentions that children in elementary school are getting jobs and are assigned certain things to do and they are expected to pick their future career. For example, I remember when I was in kindergarten we were all assigned a job as if it was line leader hall monitor etc… but as Kozol mentions, “Starting in kindergarten children in school were being asked to think about the jobs that they might choose when they grow up. The posters that surround them made clear which kinds of jobs they were expected to select” (Kozol, 331). That makes the children feel like that will be their job in the future and they are still young and should have a lot of time to think about the kind of job they want, and not decide when they are in
Esme deals with a student’s parent. This is one thing that has always worried me about my teaching career. While Esme took the library away because something had been stolen, the parent felt insulted that the teacher did not trust her child. An author is going to the school; she is also African American. This is good, as the school is almost completely all black.