Schooling the the United States

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The world we live in is designed to keep people with power in power and the ones without power without power. As we go through our respective schools one thing remains hidden from the ones going through it. What is remaining hidden is their real intent of the school system. Why are the people with power making use go to school in the United States and most of the world. John T. Gatto talks about the real intent off school in his essay “Against School”. He says that the school system is meant to turn out well-behaved students ready to start working. Further school systems are made to make students feel alone and weak so that most will follow the group. Some, however, do not follow the group like in the case of Richard Rodriguez in his essay “The Achievement of Desire”. He is isolated from his family and most of his classmates for just about all of his academic career. This happens to a lot of students but more so in high school nowadays. If they wanted what is best for us they should not just assume they know what we want in our school system. They could change our schooling so that we can do what we enjoy doing James P. Gee and Elisabeth R. Hayes talk about this concept in their essay “Language and Learning in the Digital Age”. The people with power could use passionate affinity spaces to teach us what we want to learn. Having us learn what we want to learn will make us want to learn it. How we should teach our students and how we really are teaching them, does not help and doses not teach our students anything. The education system in the U.S. is broken but it can be easily fixed with modern technology. With all of the video games out there it is not hard to tell what kids are in to just ask them what games they li...

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...e the only things we know is that the world sucks and we have no idea how to fix it. If we can make a change and let people learn what they want to learn and not make them jump through hoops to learn it we will have more people wanting to learn, wanting to better themselves not just getting by.

Works Cited
Gatto, John T. "Against School." Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing. Ed. Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle. 8th ed. Boston: Bedford / St. Martin's, 2010. 148-55. Print.
Gee, James P., and Elisabeth R. Hayes. Language and Learning in the Digital Age. London: Routledge, 2011. 69-76. Print.
Rodriguez, Richard. "The Achievement of Desire." Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing. Ed. Gary Colombo, Robert Cullen, and Bonnie Lisle. Boston: Bedford/ St. Martin's, 2007. 202-15. Print.

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