Analysis Of Fremont High School By Jonathan Kozol

The Game of School: Why We All Play It, How It Hurts Kids, and What It Will Take to Change It by Robert L. Fried is a great tool for identifying challenges in school systems and planning school reform. This book explains in great depth the problems faced by students and educators in schools today and ends with a call to action for solving these problems. Some major concepts that arise frequently throughout the book are time being wasted, students feeling powerless and the prioritization of test scores over authentic learning. Time is wasted by everyone in school and is wasted in various ways, for example students are given busy work and teachers rush through a curriculum while students learn nothing. Students, while they are the most important stakeholders, feel as though they have no control over their education.

Recently, many have begun to attack and degrade higher education in the United States. In the book How College Works, authors Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs claim, “As state support has eroded, and as more students attend college in an increasingly desperate attempt to find viable jobs, the price to students of attending an institution of higher education has gone up, especially at more selective institutions” (172). So is college even worth it? Caroline Bird’s excerpt from her book Case Against College “Where College Fails Us” is an adequately written article that agrees with those who question whether college is a good investment. Bird argues that although some students would benefit from college and succeed, many fall short, wasting

The filmmaker is very emotional about their thoughts and feelings how public schools should be. The purpose is to have the audience feel sympothy or (sadness) for the kids going to failing public schools and not receiving a good education. Teachers aren´t doing their jobs efficently they don´t achieve the maxium curriculum they are required to reach at the end of the school year. The film maker’s attitude is furious he or she believes that in order to have good public schools; the teacher’s

High Schools in America seem to specialize in one thing, either sports or academics. In the book Friday Night Lights, H.G. Bissinger argues that Permian High School excels in and only cares about football. On the other hand, Mt. Vernon High School focuses and excells in academics. While there are noticible differences between the schools, who is better at what isn’t the issue at hand.

In the two written compositions- “Students”, a poem, by Tom Wayman and “Crow Lake”, a short story, by Mary Lawson- the relationship between students and their teacher are both emphasized in their shortcomings and strains. In both pieces, the students are uninterested in the subject being taught by their respective teachers and the teachers have either no interest or no ability to catch the interests of their students (these two ideas have their differences in each individual piece). The students, in both the poem and the short story, show no interest in the subject being taught by the teachers. An example of uninterested students in “Students” is shown by the quote, “Wayman knew this notation would be pored over with more intensity that anything

Of course Menlo’s test scores are high, they have all gifted students. The teachers are a hit or miss, some are really great, and some not so much. Most teachers also play favorites, and make it obvious. There is a ‘dean of students’ (yes, a dean of students in a k-8 school), who play 's obvious favorites, allows his favorites to do anything, while the ones he doesn 't like get punished.

In “The Sanctuary of School” Lynda applies her personal life to the fact that some people think cutting down budgets for public schools will benefit when times get tough. Also that art, music and the creative ideas will be the first to go when budgets are cut. Lynda had a rough childhood where her parents had money issues and family members that needed temporarily to stay at her home (Barry, 721). The lack of attention from her parents made her look for attention elsewhere in this case the school. Lynda saw her teacher Mrs. LeSane as a mother figure.

In “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Mike Rose explains the experience being part of a school system that had no prior knowledge to have educators to teach students. Rose supports his claims by describing the different situations he had to encounter with the lack of the school system, the hopelessness of the teachers and his peers, that lead those students with no support to lead them in a direction of success. Rose purpose is to point out that; all that it was needed was a teacher that cared enough to teach and to influence those students to succeed and to never hinder the student’s learning experience because anything is possible with an little of an encouragement. In the 8th paragraph in “I Just Wanna Be Average,” Rose describes what it felt like

For instance, “...when we have students in our classes from minoritized groups, they invariably tell us of the misery of high school and all of the unconscious attitudes and behaviors from the dominant group...”(Özlem and DiAngelo). In other words, this shows that students of minorities are often treated differently, a lot of the time the education system is inadvertently biased. Adding this emotional detail will lead readers to the aimed conclusion that change needs to happen in our education system. Despite the different rhetorical strategies used to convey the purpose, the main idea of both texts have the intent to inform and advocate for equality, disregarding one's background or social

In Carl Singleton’s article, “What Our Education System Needs is More F’s,” he argues that students aren’t receiving the failing grades they deserve. School systems are to blame for the lack of quality in America’s education. No other recommendation for improvement will succeed. The only way to fix the American education system is to fail more students. According to Singleton, the real root of the issue is with the parents.

Mike Rose shares his personal story to the public in “I just wanna be average”, as he reveals the many flaws within the educational system of a high school in an economically depressed neighborhood in Los Angeles. He effectively directs his arguments towards both educators and parents by utilizing emotional and logical appeals. By convincing the audience to fear that children placed on remedial tracks are being hindered rather than assisted, the author causes both awareness and a feeling of duty to change the way we handle teaching children. Rose presents his argument by aiding the reader through the eyes of his younger self as he retells the story of his years in high school.

“High School Training Ground” is a poem by Malcolm London that addresses the problems with the modern school system and how it fails to prepare kids for the real world. In the poem "High School Training Ground" by Malcolm London, the author's use of imagery conveys a tone of dissatisfaction towards traditional public schooling. Firstly, London describes the physical environment of the school through vivid imagery to convey his dissatisfaction with the system. At the beginning of the poem in lines 3-4 the author states "cleaned up after me every day by regular janitors, but I never have the decency to honor their names.”

n “The Failure of American Public Education” (February 01 1993), John Hood explains the sundry perspectives on the American education system. Hood tactfully uses cause and effect to demonstrate the viewpoints of a myriad of individuals regarding American schools and their approaches to effectively educating students; he explains how “free-market thinkers believe that applying market competition to the public schools will solve many of America’s educational problems” (Hood) ; “critics believe that public education reforms fail because they are compromised or sabotaged by the education lobbies—teacher associations, administrators, and the legislators in their pockets” (Hood) and “many conservatives believe that American public education is in

Seika McKee Dickens ENGL 1113 1 OCT. 2015 The Hidden Education in the Poor Perhaps one of the most valuable opportunities in life is education. In a conversation between Adam Howard, associate professor of education at Antioch College, and Arthur Levine, president of Teachers College at Columbia University, in “Where Are The Poor Students,” some subjects at hand are the availability or unavailability of opportunities, the missed value of education, and the irrelevant comparison of test scores directed towards the poor students.

Imagine the United States in its near future: while a select few successful, affluent and influential people take power over the rest of the country and essentially control the way it operates domestically and internationally, the remainder of the population remains at a state comparable to the Great Depression in the 1930s, where unemployment rates are high, few unskilled jobs are available to the public, and the majority of urban residents are forced to rely on soup kitchens and live in shantytowns. The state of most United States schools today is absolutely atrocious, and should they continue to educate the modern generation of children and teens, a dystopian society is bound to arise in what is now considered one of the most powerful and