Breanna Shelton
AP English
Alison Fox
April 19, 2018
Synthesis Essay: Education
American schools have failed to take current issues into consideration and make the efforts needed to improve the educational system. The diversity in ethnicity and culture have became more prominent the past few years and need to become a priority when planning a child’s educational process. Education has been a major topic of conversation throughout the past twenty years due to the United States falling behind on the educational growth curve of the world. Therefore, to improve the current system, the Department of Education must put an end to placing popularity before education, making money an obstacle in a child’s ability to learn, and see that test scores
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Many schools all across America are forcing students to come up with money their families do not have in order to pay for unnecessary expenses. If the students do not provide the money the school is asking for, then they are often looked down on by their teachers and even penalized in classrooms. As Horace Mann states, “What force did then, money does now,” (Report of the Massachusetts “Intellectual Education as a Means of Removing Poverty, and Securing Abundance”, Horace Mann, 248) he provides the sense, money is placed above any other force around the United States. In this simple statement, Mann enlightens the issue of money. He explains how money is now becoming the issue many schools are looking at. Schools no longer look at a child’s abilities to perform in the classroom, but rather, they look at the income of each family to see how it can benefit the school. Later throughout his essay, Mann states, “Agrarianism is the revenge of poverty against wealth… Education prevents both the revenge and the madness” (Report of the Massachusetts Board of Education “Intellectual Education as a Means of Removing Poverty, and Securing Abundance”, Horace Mann, 250). Mann describes how the money an individual has can start a fire in them that affects how they view other people. If a rich man is sitting beside a poor man, the poor man will be taken over with jealousy and greed. The poor man will want what the wealthy man has and do anything he can to get it. The wealthy man will look down on the poor man and feel as if he is superior to him. With education, it is the same way. Teachers feel as if they must pay more attention to the students with the wealthiest parents because they feel as if those parents are able to cause more of an impact in the school’s environment. If schools taught students fairly then this feeling of superiority would be taken away in future
As in the story: "Bodega Dreams" by Ernesto Quinonez, students of Julia de Burgos school were abused psychologically by a bad teacher named Blessington, which belittled and humiliated his telling students that would end in jail or as prostitutes; in the same way, the lack of pedagogy of these so-called teachers, contribute to the impoverishment of our educational system. For decades, it has been supposed that education is related to socioeconomic status determined by the level of income. It is common to hear, if you are rich, so it has can be an excellent education. This thought is deep within us and it could be very difficult to think in another way. With this we can deduce that any financial
Horace Mann addressed several issues before the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1848. His vision revolved around the idea that a successful schooling system would enable people to transcend social class. Among the issues he discussed were physical, intellectual, political, moral, and religious education. Mann believed that modern science put control of one’s well being in their own hands, and people must learn to care for themselves adequately so that healthy habits are ingrained into our culture and subsequently the upbringing of children. Intellectual education, perhaps the most important issue, as it is the one predominantly aimed at enabling people to move up in social class. Mann deemed “vast and overshadowing private fortunes” as...
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Despite the world being full of diverse people with varying accomplishments and skill sets, people oftentimes assume the qualities and traits of an individual based purely on the stereotypes set forth by society. Although these stereotypes are unavoidable, an individual can be liberated, empowered and ultimately overcome these stereotypes by obtaining an advanced education.
“We used to judge a man by the shake of his hand.” a quote by Gretchen Wilson. Dating back a few years to the 1990’s, shop-class programs and trade schools weren’t sought out as a first choice, and was often looked down upon. People in these programs were viewed as having “no other options.” People may feel that going to a trade school means there was no other option for the student; however, it can be argued that a trade school member can make close to the same amount as a university graduate, not come out of school with much debt, and be equally as happy.
For my essay, I will write about the effects wealthy people have on society. I will determine how money ranks their classification, and what social standards have become over time. I will go into explanation about how society feels (upper and lower class feelings), what lower class people think should be done money wise, and what upper class people believe is right. I will determine how someone becomes rich or what is classified as wealthy and what advantages they have over the poor, or if it is just a myth that richer people live life better. I will determine if the money someone has makes their child smarter when it comes to learning or if home background doesn’t have a play in education; because in today’s society, the world revolves around money, social status, and classification; it isn’t based on what someone wants for themselves, earns, or what one feels is right for their needs, instead it is a competition to rise to the top, but why? How does wealth have such a big impact on our society and why is money what determines social status and class?
Just like each and every student is different, so is every school in every community. Whether it is a little or drastic difference, money can make a difference. For example, a little difference could be buying new school supplies. Does buying the supplies make a huge difference to the school system and student’s academic success? Probably not, but it would have a difference and positive affect on the student whose family could not afford to buy the supplies for their child.
With their increased wealth, the rich, from 19762 to 2006, have increased their spending on enrichment activities for their children by 151 percent, compared to only 57 percent for poor families (O’Brien). This gives rich children an advantage over poor children. This gap is further extended in public education. Rich children often go to better schools that provide opportunities that children in poor schools do not receive. This is “an educational system that provides such privilege to some students, while willfully and purposefully denying it to others” (Strauss). The current education system allows rich children to succeed while it tells the poor children that “they are inadequate instead of educating them” (Strauss). Even when poor children achieve in school, they are just as likely to succeed later in life as rich children who have dropped out of school (O’Brien). This creates an atmosphere where the education provided to the poor is woefully inadequate when compared to that hoarded by the rich. This, in turn, continues to place poor children in a situation that keeps them
Money can give people a lot opportunities and privilege. Financially privileged people have no trouble getting materialistic things such as big houses, expensive cars, and jewelry. Being privileged can also provide better scholastic education as well as respect. On the other hand, a lack of money, as a person might guess, limits opportunity and lower a person’s status on the privilege pole. In order for an underprivileged person to have all of those things, they have to work hard to get to get the luxuries of nice houses, cars, and jewelry. As far as education goes, the underprivileged might not go to the best schools but they get an education that will prove to be more valuable in life; they learn to earn respect, appreciate what they have and how to survive with just the necessities and what’s really important in life. So when a person looks at each group and tries to decided with one gets the most out of life, they will see that underprivileged individuals get so much more out of life than a person who came up in affluence and privilege.