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“It takes a village to raise a child”, this sentiment holds true in many forms and especially for building a person’s moral compass. From the time we are able to pronounce words or are able to take our first steps, the words “don’t say that/don’t do that” have already been said to us by our guardians. A caregiver has many roles, one of them is to raise us and teach us the difference between right and wrong and it’s consequences. To educate us enough to be able to make decisions on our own and form our own morals. While in retrospect this is a grand idea, only being taught through our parents beliefs may be more detrimental than we care to admit. Being taught beliefs one or two people were taught may narrow your perspective on the world. Therefore the school system should help us expand our beliefs and teach us from another point of view, what ethical decision making could be. Many may argue teaching kids a more complex sense of dos and don’ts will be too big for them to comprehend, but it’s crucial to begin developing this thought process early on. Waiting until college for someone to have their first real lesson on ethics can avoid the delayed development of personal morals. Introducing the idea of the world being grander than just “don’t say bad words” can plant a seed in a young student’s mind that their actions can truly affect their peers and themselves as well. Allowing students to bounce ideas off each other and their teachers can open a world of perspectives, initiating the question “Have I been wrong/right this whole time?”.
“Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.” Malcolm X. Students have to pay for tuition, board and room. They also need to buy textbooks that cost more every year. All these expenses make students worry, trying to save money and buy less food. Students study hard and try their best just so they can get an acceptance letter from their dream college. However, college tuition is not that affordable; college tuition is increasing in price every single year while the yearly salary of a father stays the same or barely increases. Many students cannot afford to attend college, and some decide not to attend because they cannot afford it. Americans take out student loans in order to receive their college education. Students should be able to attend a college without being in a debt consisting of thousands of dollars. Colleges need to be more affordable, obtaining funds less stressful, and colleges must enact policies that condone these principles. There are so many students who would be extremely grateful to attend any four year institution but can’t because of the lack of funds. Thousands of college students in different states have trouble financially. The amount of college graduate debt has been rapidly increasing also with limited jobs available because of the high unemployment rate, college graduates find themselves staying in debt even longer. Although grants and financial aid are available to students, students still struggle to pay for their college tuition. Many students’ solutions to pay for college are taking loans, then college becomes affordable. These loans create a whole different issue, student loan debt. This can affect people their whole lifetime and has been happening for years upon years.
Let me tell you a story about a kid named Beth and Ron. Beth is from a neighborhood called, Hammock Oaks in Florida, one of the richest neighborhoods in America. Ron is from Little River, a neighborhood in southern California, which happens to be one of the poorest neighborhoods in America. Beth had a very smooth life succeeding and traveling through the rankings of life and went on to own a successful real estate agency. But Ron had more problems as he moved through life, he got incarcerated by 15, and that set him on a downward spiral throughout his life. After a few years Ron ended up meeting Beth, he went to her agency for a job, as the unpaid janitor. Two separate people from two different lives, one with a life of ease and success and one with a hard and ungratifying end. But which part of their lives created that gap that determined their success. Was the difference in location what set them up for success? Does the neighborhood you grew up in determine your trajectory in life or does it place a hindrance on the level you can grow, I believe it can and until you recognize it and rise above it you will continually be a victim to its hold.
Let me tell you a story about a kid named Beth and Ron. Beth is from a neighborhood called, Hammock Oaks in Florida, one of the richest neighborhoods in America. Ron is from Little River, a neighborhood in southern California, which happens to be one of the poorest neighborhoods in America. Beth had a very smooth life succeeding and traveling through the rankings of life and went on to own a successful real estate agency. But Ron had more problems as he moved through life, he got incarcerated by 15, and that set him on a downward spiral throughout his life. After a few years Ron ended up meeting Beth, he went to her agency for a job, as the unpaid janitor. Two separate people from two different lives, one with a life of ease and success and one with a hard and ungratifying end. But which part of their lives created that gap that determined their success. Was the difference in location what set them up for success? Does the neighborhood you grew up in determine your trajectory in life or does it place a hindrance on the level you can grow, I believe it can and until you recognize it and rise above it you will continually be a victim to its hold.
Education has always been competitive. People In classrooms get ranked on how well they do and depending on how they did in their last grade, they get put into either a high or low standard class. There are schools that have more hardworking students than others and still get the same financial help from the government as any other school. Some may think that schools getting more financial help for having better stats is not right and it only puts down the other schools with children who struggle. Some people think that schools with better stats should get a reward because they are obviously doing something right for those kids. It’s been a discussion for years. It’s true that some teachers put in more work than others to allow kids to get the knowledge they need for the next level in their education. Though, there are some cases where students are just naturally gifted in education. You see, money plays a big role in education and it’s becoming very clear to others. Schools with low income typically hold kids who are troubled or simply have no interest in education, It’s not hard to tell why they don’t have an interest either. While schools with a large source of financial support typically hold kids with good test scores, good mental health, and well develpoed plans for their future. Kids need things like clubs, trips, sports teams, etc to keep them interested in their education. Simply putting a kid in front of a class with a dull teacher isint going to do the trick. Kids’ minds are extraordinary, they need things to keep them interested. Though, there isn’t enough money for all schools to be satisfied with. People need to accept the fact that the government isn’t going to give money away to every school. They have to pick and choose which ones they want to have more financial help. If every school received the same amount of money then all schools would be perfect and there would be no competition between schools. Perfect isn’t something that we have, especially in the education system. It’s far from perfect. Would you want your academically hardworking child to get into a school with a higher flow of income?
Schools are always pictured as great institutions with the possibility to open new doors for you to explore and learn. They offer many great opportunities, from learning the basics of education to get you started all the way to being given the freedom to be able to choose what is best for you and your future. Schools give you the experience of a unique way of learning with different students and teachers giving you new ideas that branch off to others. This was meant to expand and share what you know with others and to share the same knowledge and curiosity that basically will help learn and correct each other. But what is it really like? Are all students being given the attention they need without affecting the student emotionally and mentally? Many programs exist in schools that help students with disabilities and many of the programs continue to support the student all throughout their progression in school. These are meant to give all students equal opportunities no matter their situation and help them cope with their differences that make it a challenge for them to learn like others. However, are these programs actually helping students and how does this compare to just letting them learn with other students in their class after providing them a foundation to lean on? It’s always helpful to get that extra support, but sometimes enough is enough. These programs can include people often referred to as caretakers that continue to influence the way the student learns since they are always leaning against you making sure you are doing all right. These students are often pushed to be a certain way and to act and think a certain way, but these programs are not taking into account how the student feels and thinks. Many of the students who have taken these extra support programs due to their disabilities don’t realize this until they grow up.
Transference of education to everyday life in society
Education is a big part of our lives … given that we attend K-12 then another 4 years or even longer depending on your respectable major. We spend so much time in school. I wonder about these subjects’ criteria like common core if they have some type of transference into your real-world career field. I am extremely curious about this given 53% of college graduates are unemployed or even working at a job that doesn’t utilize their degree. As result, I would expect this would cause a lack of confidence in these students because they put in so much time and effort over the years to essentially get nothing return because the objective which they sell is to get good grades you will get a high paying job and a lot of money but this isn’t just how it works, so I bet these students are beyond furious because they weren’t briefed on how whatever they studied can not be so potent in the real world because it’s not needed. In the education system, you can also see they use fear to control students from thinking outside the box and not just having a set idea of something because in case these superintendents don’t notice the world is always changing, so they are setting kids up for failure by allocating to this big brother concept of “this is the way it has been done for years, and we are not gonna change” this now restricts the student from opening their mind and broadening their horizon. I can attest that this contributes to students, also not having any familiarization with the basic concept of conversational skills and balancing stress and real-world problems that weren’t discussed in the textbooks. Like adulting which comes with handling things like going to work when you don’t want to pay bills which is more a mental health thing but it always comes down to that one factor in the end.
knight, Lord Jim. “Why Our School System Needs to Change.” Parent Info, 15 Sept. 2021, https://parentinfo.org/article/why-our-school-system-needs-to-change. In this article, the author goes into depth about some of the growing concerns that are popping up in the school system. Things along the side of mental health and how it affects the students’ capacity to learn. He also goes into depth about how the students’ independence and free will to express themselves are on a halt because they are overly constrained by their teachers and parents. A very salient point that the author brought up was “A multi-disciplinary curriculum would engage children differently. Problem-solving and learning from failure are the natural ways in which children initially learn through play” this can show significant changes in students lively hood if this was supposed to be implemented because it would throw the fear of being judged out the window. The fear of being a judge is a huge factor in students’ ability to learn because as Mr knight mention in the article their is over a 50% rise in mental health referrals in the Uk. I think the main point they should focus on after reading this is giving their students a sense of validation to help them get their opinion across and be prepared for the uncertain future. Mr knight correlates to this by saying, “If our schools can do more to better equip children with the mindset and skills to face an uncertain and challenging future, then they should.” I can see how this is a needed factor in the learning environment because at the current state their is feedback from the students all around but their just is never any in-depth analysis of teachers trying to understand this instead the usual approach is to ignore this. Then continue with the “lesson plan”.
Race hinders people’s job opportunities. If you have somebody of African American descent and you have somebody who is of Caucasian descent, they have the same degrees and diplomas one or the other would most likely get the job they applied for. It depends on the area that they applied to. Area code matters when you apply for a job. People that are Caucasian are more likely to get a job in whiter richer areas. But if somebody who was Caucasian were to apply for a job that was in dominantly African-American areas they most likely wouldn’t get the job and vice versa for any area that is predominantly one race. When people show on their resumes that they went to good schools and have a lot of experience in the field that they went into, they are most likely to get the job that they apply for. But it’s hard for that to completely matter if the employers and industries are so biased based on the color of your skin. Affirmative action is a policy that was put into place to favor individuals that are known to be discriminated against. Minorities are still heavily discriminated against in the workplace and even when they do get the job they are still being harassed and treated differently by co-workers and bosses. There’s also this factor of your name sounding to african american or sounding to much like the ethnicity you are. Employers start to assume who you are and how you look, based on the image that they made of you, that’s how they are going to treat you when you meet. When you get to the interview and you’re talking about your background and why you may want the job.Your potential employer might have categorized you before they meet you and have already determined if they want to hire you or not. Which could be discouraging for people of color.
Whenever students don’t want to study or feel studying is for “nerds” or “geeks”. parent/teacher would always tell them study is for people who want a bright future and have ambitions to be someone in the future, all these celebrities and superstars are not there by magic, they’ve worked hard to be at the place they are. so study is better to yourselves in the future. I don’t disagree with this point of view, these celebrities, stars are often hard work to get the brilliant future. However, whether all subjects we learn from school/college are useful for our future? for example Chemistry, if our future careers are not related to scientists or chemists, what’s the point of studying this subject? Another example is mathematics, as one of the main subjects, we have to take it every day. we spend so much time and learn so many things, but how much of them are really needed as a ordinary people. But if it is not necessary, why does the government still define it as compulsory education? So what is the meaning of the subjects we study? What are some subject that we really need but doesn’t have a subject until college?
Whenever students don’t want to study or feel studying is for “nerds” or “geeks”. parent/teacher would always tell them study is for people who want a bright future and have ambitions to be someone in the future, all these celebrities and superstars are not there by magic, they’ve worked hard to be at the place they are. so study is better to yourselves in the future. I don’t disagree with this point of view, these celebrities, stars are often hard work to get the brilliant future. However, whether all subjects we learn from school/college are useful for our future? for example Chemistry, if our future careers are not related to scientists or chemists, what’s the point of studying this subject? Another example is mathematics, as one of the main subjects, we have to take it every day. we spend so much time and learn so many things, but how much of them are really needed as a ordinary people. But if it is not necessary, why does the government still define it as compulsory education? So what is the meaning of the subjects we study? What are some subject that we really need but doesn’t have a subject until college?
I personally think special education does not really help a lot of the kids they place the program. And how there needs to change who goes into these programs and what they teach in these programs. I am mainly writing about this because of my experience in special education and my thoughts on the program. also from anecdotal stories from the news and people I know. for research, I hope to find what are the main problems in special education, which for me are which kids go in these programs and why, the teachers, what is taught, and the social aspect of all of this for the children in school and out of it.
“Take a minute to step into someone’s shoes,” is a common sentiment shared by those, who have experienced hardship or understand as much, towards those who have the blissful ignorance of such knowledge. This often shows in cases of work, lifestyle, gratitude, self-awareness and general appreciation along with many other examples. Not everyone is as blessed with a luxurious household, blessed to never be hungry again or decide dinner over rent, and that’s just a fact of life, truly a sad reality for those involved. Even as someone who had been through various struggle in my lifetime, it is easy to become complacent from time to time, but never really severe enough to forget the road that paved our way here. The earliest notable stages that notice this segregation of classes starts in the early educational system. It makes a staple from the very famous vine “What Are Those?” which pointed a police officer’s attire to question because of comedic relief which, granted, was vividly humourous. This spiraled many remakes of the meme, seen commonly towards “the quiet kid” of groups in high schools where the videos were mainly filmed. This, though a completely hilarious and harmless video on one account, paints a completely separate picture in the eyes of the people being recorded. To the receiving party, it can be seen as a violation of some sorts, as being the “butt of the joke” can be very damaging, especially due to forces they can’t control which could be affordability or preference choice. Such behavior pushed onto said students would cause an issue with their personal enjoyments and create a sort of domino effect/ chain reaction of choices that may become lifestyle decisions. This is one of many factors that can alter home life for students, as factors create different environments, and some students don’t have the best family life either, so some factors can prove detrimental to one’s relationship experiences. They might not view friendships or more exclusive entanglements as someone who was well off would. Someone who was fortunate enough to be placed into private school with designer from head to toe would have different experiences than someone who dresses in new balances from 1999 and other hand-me-downs in at least one aspect, if not multiple. That being said, there are multiple different scenarios which could separate someone’s experiences from another in education, and the best way to examine this is to compare home life and correlate that to actions throughout their educational perspective.