Nowadays, education is so put upon students. Students feel the pressure of work expectations and schools make it seem as if they do not meet these expectations, then they’re futures will be “destroyed”. In essay, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work”, Jean Anyon theorizes about the role education plays in society. Anyon’s central thesis is that the function of our educational systems is depended on the school’s social class. After careful analysis of my own experience within Anyon’s paradigm, it’s clear that my school, Windham High School closely aligns with Anyon’s description of the working class. Anyon correctly acknowledges that the public schools in our society provide different types of knowledge and different educational experiences
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There is an abrupt contrast between the working class and middle class schools’ interactions between students and teachers and those of the affluent professional and executive elite schools. In the working class, teachers speak to the students in a harsh manner. In a math class in a working class school, the teacher demanded the students “take out your ruler. Put it across the top. Mark it at every number. Then move your ruler down to the bottom. Now draw a line from...” them a student suggested “I know a faster way to do it” and the teacher yelled “no, you don’t; you don’t even know what I’m making yet. Do it this way, or it’s wrong”(Anyon). Students struggle to stay quiet and usually refuse to listen to the teacher. In the middle class school, the teacher’s level of control depends on the teacher themselves. Some may be perceived as calm or strict. The students questions are asked “tolerated” by the teachers and the answers given are “negligent”. Students are not enthusiastic about the work because they cannot show creativity. At the affluent professional school, the teachers rarely give demands-opposed to the working class school. In this school, students have an abundance amount of freedom, they do not require to have a pass to go to the library, restroom, and they even allow three students at a time to go to the restroom. Students are allowed to finish their work later if …show more content…
Personally in my experience at Windham High, most of my classes are I feel as if there is no real analytical thinking besides Statistics. Whether the class was AP or Honors, the work did not seem challenging. We are given lectures, and are asked to copy notes, then comprehend it. In my previous math courses such as Geometry, Algebra 1&2 I have not found it to be challenging or busy work. I am currently a senior taking Statistics, and this is the first time I have found math to be a bit challenging due to the critical thinking and analyzing we have to demonstrate. Our standardized testing, SAT, P-SAT scores have statistically found to be that students scores in reading are much higher compared to math scores. English classes do require analysis and evaluation of the assignment given. I see words such as “analyze” or “examine” during my assignments. The English and History department closely aligns the affluent professional school level rather than Math and Science being at the Working Class
There is an abrupt contrast between the working class and middle class schools’ interactions between students and teachers and those of the affluent professional and executive elite schools. In the working class, teachers speak to the students in a harsh manner. In a math class in a working class school, the teacher demanded the students “take out your ruler. Put it across the top. Mark it at every number. Then move your ruler down to the bottom. Now draw a line from...” them a student suggested “I know a faster way to do it” and the teacher yelled “no, you don’t; you don’t even know what I’m making yet. Do it this way, or it’s wrong”(Anyon). Students struggle to stay quiet and usually refuse to listen to the teacher. In the middle class school, the teacher’s level of control depends on the teacher themselves. Some may be perceived as calm or strict. The students questions are asked “tolerated” by the teachers and the answers given are “negligent”. Students are not enthusiastic about the work because they cannot show creativity. At the affluent professional school, the teachers rarely give demands-opposed to the working class school. In this school, students have an abundance amount of freedom, they do not require to have a pass to go to the library, restroom, and they even allow three students at a time to go to the restroom. Students are allowed to finish their work later if …show more content…
Personally in my experience at Windham High, most of my classes are I feel as if there is no real analytical thinking besides Statistics. Whether the class was AP or Honors, the work did not seem challenging. We are given lectures, and are asked to copy notes, then comprehend it. In my previous math courses such as Geometry, Algebra 1&2 I have not found it to be challenging or busy work. I am currently a senior taking Statistics, and this is the first time I have found math to be a bit challenging due to the critical thinking and analyzing we have to demonstrate. Our standardized testing, SAT, P-SAT scores have statistically found to be that students scores in reading are much higher compared to math scores. English classes do require analysis and evaluation of the assignment given. I see words such as “analyze” or “examine” during my assignments. The English and History department closely aligns the affluent professional school level rather than Math and Science being at the Working Class