I actually agree with what James Baldwin was saying throughout this passage because, as a current student he is right when he says that while American history is a larger world to cover, the current world is also a large world to cover and how it’s important too. What I think James Baldwin means when he says “the world is larger?” is that while schools teach us a lot about American history and how countries came to be, schools should also be teaching students things that will help them in the current world because that is just as important, maybe even more than learning about the past.
What I think the school system in America should have been teaching us as soon as we got to high school is money. I think that money is a topic that should have been touched up on more, and not the history of money or how money is made but how to use it in the world now or bills and bills are taken care of. I would have also liked if schools taught more about jobs, taxes, and things that we would be doing when we become independent, and I would have liked it to be full of classes apart from our everyday schedule instead of extra classes you would need to sign up for or an elective or clubs you would have to join after school. I think overall that people in the education system focus more on kids needing to know who our presidents are or what the periodic table is and forget to prepare us for “the world” that James Baldwin talks about.
