Children are our future… that’s what we want to believe, but is that truly happening? We hear all about the educational issues that children of all ages, gender, ethnicity, and culture are facing every day. We hear about these issues only because of experiences, but because of how the media is producing them for entertainment. Majority of people have started their education while they were still young, whether it was first grade, kindergarten, preschool, and even in the infant stages if a person’s life. Now, us older generation, might remember those schooling years to be quite a fun time, where we were able to play, run, sings songs, and learn in our own pace. But, what about now? Do the struggles of good academic scoring now effect the now
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All these music subjects involving school all play the same “tune”. It is either about the struggles of school, and how the environment is shutting them down, or about how to make your life easier by just memorizing information that will help you. In one of the songs called, Another Brick in the Wall, by Pink Floyd is about how students are being discourage and oppressed by the higher authority, the teacher. The song gives you a rock and roll theme and the music video show It does not matter what you are going through or who you are as a person, it’s all about superiority with some of these teachers, whether it is about being superior in a social way or in a ethic way. In Ferguson’s book called Bad Boys in chapter called “Don’t Believe the Hype” where you have cases of certain groups of children, mainly young black boys, who are pictured to be delinquents on their way to be hard criminals. This is also the case in Patterson’s article “Schooling, Sexual Orientation, Law, and Policy: Making Schools Safe for All Students”; in this article, we have cases where student are being harassed due to their sexual orientation, and there were even cases where the school’s administrative and staff are even encouraging these behaviors. When students are being reduced to such low standard, education is pushed out of their agenda and in come the self-loathing aspect of it. The song Another Brick in the Wall, is not just a cleverly rock song that everyone should enjoy, but it is a song that people should really understand and listen to and ask themselves, why did Pink Floyd decide to make a song out of
All these music subjects involving school all play the same “tune”. It is either about the struggles of school, and how the environment is shutting them down, or about how to make your life easier by just memorizing information that will help you. In one of the songs called, Another Brick in the Wall, by Pink Floyd is about how students are being discourage and oppressed by the higher authority, the teacher. The song gives you a rock and roll theme and the music video show It does not matter what you are going through or who you are as a person, it’s all about superiority with some of these teachers, whether it is about being superior in a social way or in a ethic way. In Ferguson’s book called Bad Boys in chapter called “Don’t Believe the Hype” where you have cases of certain groups of children, mainly young black boys, who are pictured to be delinquents on their way to be hard criminals. This is also the case in Patterson’s article “Schooling, Sexual Orientation, Law, and Policy: Making Schools Safe for All Students”; in this article, we have cases where student are being harassed due to their sexual orientation, and there were even cases where the school’s administrative and staff are even encouraging these behaviors. When students are being reduced to such low standard, education is pushed out of their agenda and in come the self-loathing aspect of it. The song Another Brick in the Wall, is not just a cleverly rock song that everyone should enjoy, but it is a song that people should really understand and listen to and ask themselves, why did Pink Floyd decide to make a song out of