Moises
Rodriguez
Professor
Young
ENGL
1100_34
September
24, 2015
Is School Really Helping us Develop or Progress?
In
the essay “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” its author Jean
Anyon discusses how schools instruct the pupils differently according to their
parent’s social status. In the experiment that she conducted she compared how
the teachers instructed according to the student social class such include: the
working class schools, the middle class schools, the affluent professionals
schools and the executive elite school. Each school prepares the kids
differently in the way that they think and analyze information. Also to believe
that all of what she discovered STILLS hold merit today and to think that it
was written in 1980.
As
an individual that has lived in the Dominican Republic, and the United States,
I have been exposed to different methods of teaching, which all concur with
Jean’s research. While I use to reside in the Dominican Republic I use to
attend a private school, and from what I read in Jean’s essay I was in the
“Middle-Class School.” We were constantly told that the answers were always in
the book. We could not come up with any answers we were supposed to follow the
book. As Jean said the more right answers you get the better your grade is. After
I migrated here to the United States, I resided in Newark, NJ. Here I attended
“The Working Class Schools.” We had old textbooks, where treated as “kids.” It
was sort of a dictatorship, we couldn’t question the teacher authority whatever
they said was right was it. Then I moved to a little town in Bergen County,
nevertheless it was the Dominican Republic all over again the same
“Middle-Class School” all over again.
To
believe that what Jane found in 1980 still current today, not only in the
United States but other countries as well and nothing is being done in other to
change it is scary. Kids since a young age are raised to be a certain way;
opportunities are limited for those with less money, which is unfair. Every kid
should have the right to the same education all across the world, regardless of
money.
Great picture Moises. It relates well to the essay. What do you think you can do to change conditions to make it less "scary" for people? How could you have used specific examples from Anyon to support your position?
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