Nilaja Sun’s play No Child showcases a teacher, Miss Sun living in a dysfunctional community teaching one of the hardest classrooms in the Bronx. Throughout the play the two main themes of rejection and accountability are shown through the students, teachers and families that are struggling with the poor educational system. In No Child, Sun brings spirit and hope into the life of students and teachers. The story takes place within a broken community of teachers and students at Malcolm X High School. The janitor, who is the narrator of the story, observes all the obstacles that the school and students have faced over time.
They want a change in the education system so that children can prosper and be able to boost our declining economy. Children have always dreaded going to school because of boring classes and monotone teachers, but children are not only noticing this but so are influential adults. Robinson describes the school system as a factory forming students into what we want and banishing out the ones that do not reform into the model student. Moore agrees that the school system is suppressive when he says, “As soon as I entered high school-the public school system…I was walking the halls of a two-thousand-plus –inmate holding pen” (134). Moore felt trapped and earlier revealed that he dropped out of school sophomore year because he disliked school from first grade.
There has to be some kind of system to let the students know how they are doing (383). In this essay Mandrell presents her trial of testing the non-grading system and whether the students have the drive to learn the curriculum set by the teachers. Mandrell’s own account starts in her high school senior AP English class. Mandrell noticed how most of the students were wishing that they still had junior English class. A handful of students mouthed off about how their junior English teacher, Mrs. Thornton, hardly ever gave out hard assignments.
I’ll speak to him about his behavior in class.” Mrs. Smith: “Mrs. Johnson, Corey has gone from an A to a D. This is not like him. He was a star pupil in class. Boys are less likely to ask for help if anything is wrong than a teenage girl.” (teensuicide.us/articles 2005) Mrs. Johnson: “Do you think its something I should be worried about? I’m divorced and working two jobs to support my family.
Teachers Deserve to Get Paid More In the essay, “America Skips School,” by Benjamin Barber, Barber argues that American children are learning the wrong lessons outside of school and that society doesn’t care. He gives statistics that show how bad the American education system is. For example, Barber states that simple literacy is not efficient in over ninety-million adult Americans. Many children either become drop-outs or become criminals, and those who choose to stay in school are falling behind the world standard in science education. Children don’t listen to their school teachers as much as they listen to society.
This case study profiled a 6th year student named Billy, who struggled through his Junior Certificate exams. His parents are concerned about his increasingly negative attitude and seek help from a guidance counsellor. Billy does not give much detail in regards to his negative feelings. He expresses that he hates all of his classes except PE and that he is unhappy with the negative attention that he receives from his parents and teachers. The guidance counsellor attempts to open his mind to change by focusing on positive experiences in school.
Willy asks his neighbor to take a state test for one of his sons because he wants his son to get a good grade. These lessons that Willy is teaching his sons will not help them in life. In fact it will probably debilitate them. The American dream in which Willy and many other men of the era desires is one in which the children are successful in life and are able to help the parents in old age. By the lessons Willy is teaching his sons, he is keeping himself from
Collins is giving us a firsthand look at how our morals can affect us, but not always in a good way. In Collins poem he shows us how flawed the teacher’s approach to educating his students is. He shows us how the lies the teacher is telling the children are doing them more harm than good. His lies are actually making his students more ignorant about the real world than they were to begin with. Children that are ignorant to the world and the violence that is in it will never be able to be functioning members of society.
These issues often are the cause for the living situations these youth, typically high school through college aged young adults, are dealing with everyday. When someone receives a poor education, has no job and has a family early in life they are faced with poverty and a desperation that serves as motivation to commit crimes and turn to alcohol and drugs to make their situation easier to live with. Thus creating a vicious circle for their children and grandchildren to come to be affected by. (Katz, Rebecca S. 1999) This seems like an overwhelming issue to have placed in
School is bad for Children This essay is written by the a teacher and education theorist-----John Holt. Holt believed that the traditional school reduces children's curiosity about life. And He thinks that the student should be allowed to choose to learn what they are interested in. Also, he has call for the help to make children free from the classroom which he treated as a "dull and ugly place, where nobody ever says anything very truthful." Additionally, John Holt is also a supporter of the Home Schooling movement.