Kristopher Baptiste
Carrie Hall
English 1101
21 February 2019
Bad to Worse
In today’s society we have people that criticize and judge other people without education and tend to treat then differently. What if you had a teacher that gave the students work but didn’t care how you did on it or if the content was right or wrong.
The school system in this new generation is corrupted we have teachers that are out here rubbing there ideals to gullible young consumers that don’t really much about the world as yet. Throughout my time in elementary school i realized my teacher was basically trying to make me think the same as her. There were times when I would waiting to get picked up from school the teacher would would sit next to me with a newspaper and literally tell me what exactly what I should think. For the rest of the week we didn’t do any type of work the teacher basically made us watch videos about whats going on with the world like with politics, the government and other things that we didn’t know about. The teacher would tell us her ideals and her opinion about the things happening and us young gullible kids agreed on the things she was saying even though we didn’t understand what she was talking about.
The other problems that are shown is that certain teachers don’t like there job or they don’t like work load they are mandatory to do. Some of the teachers don’t like dealing with students especially the ones that don’t listen to there instructions. There are teachers that are lazy they would just give the students work without even caring if they did well or not. They don’t like the fact they have to set up test, grade the test, create homework and also correct it, and the biggest one of all is giving up there free time especially there off days to come to work to help students graduate, obtain credits or give them an opportunity to pass the class and with that they would have to prepare work for them. This then has an impact on the students because they not getting the full help they really need or they just end up getting work without even getting it looked at.
In the article “Against School”, John Taylor Gatto expresses his point of view which it shows how the American schooling system seems childish. According to the article “Against School” by John Taylor Gatto it says “My own experience had revealed to me what many other teachers learn along the way, too, yet keep to themselves for fear of reprisal”. Some teachers hate to be corrected even when there in the wrong. In my 10th grade year there was this US history teacher that hate to be wrong. One day in class a student had corrected her and she got upset then she called the assistant principal and reported him for talking back and cursing at her but me and my classmates reported her to the principal for lying but surprisingly she didn’t get fired. Afterwards the principals started to come into our US history class and observe the teacher.
John Gatto stated that the key problem in the schooling is boredom among the students which he then ask a question, “Do we really need schooling”? Gatto states that the current school system is not helping the students learn and grow as they should be. Some teachers are given students unnecessary information or not giving any help at all. Gatto implied that teachers should be giving students the proper guidance that will help students know what to decide to do with there future. Students should be able to establish goals for themselves and try to achieve there dreams. According to Gatto, he basically believes that the teachers in the corrupted school system are worried about themselves for example they only care getting paid they not worried about the students getting the proper education they need in order to go places in life.
In the 11th grade I had a advisory teacher that was suppose to be helping us decide what are we gonna do after we graduate and what decision we made about our future. The teacher would usually come in the class and put on a video she found on the internet but it had nothing to do with the things we should be talking about in the class. Afterwards she would hand everyone a sheet of paper and tell us that we have to write down important details from the video. The teacher would tell us to hold on to the work and that she will collect it the next day but she would never collect it so later on the students started to take advantage of the fact that the teacher doesn’t care what we do. Some of the students would be on their phones, sleep during class or even talk to there friends for the whole period.
Therefore in conclusion students need the proper guidance in order for them to take on the obstacles ahead of them in order to have a full filling life. Additionally I agree with Gatto argument because I believe that students need an education in order to make the proper decisions in life.
