After going through all the chapters we have went have been going over in Issues of Unity and Diversity, I could relate to almost all of them but I had to narrow them down. I sat and went back through all of them again and two really stuck out to me, Chapter 4 and Chapter 8. Chapter 4 discusses talks about crime and chapter 6 talks about education. Some people may say that those to have nothing to do with each other but being where I’m from they go hand and hand.
The south has a bad stereotype for being some of the worst schools and having some of the worst education opportunities, along with inner city schools that may be up north. Alabama has one of the worst systems if were to try and list them from the best to the worst. According to Alabama …show more content…
I see both crime and the problems in education both from a conflict’s perspective. Socialist who see crime from a conflicts perspective believe that social inequality leads to crimes as means of economic survival and that those who are in power define what is a crime. I believe this is so true, most of the people I know who sell drugs or steal have a hard life, especially the ones I see at school. There was one boy at my school his name was Josh, he sold drugs in the school and most people saw him as a bad person. Actually Josh was probably one of the nicest people, the problem was his mom died and he had three younger siblings that he chose to help take care of. He did what he had to do to try and help provide for them and finish school at the same time. If he would’ve been in one of those school in east Montgomery, I feel as if they would’ve made a bigger effort to help him. Socialist who look at education through a conflict perspective see that education has different class positions and quality education opportunities aren’t equally distributed. I see it this way to, after actually reading through all the this, I thought back and realized how I saw this all through high school. I was in AP classes and with these classes one of the requirements was that we had to attend AP study sessions on Saturday mornings. At these sessions, almost all the schools participated in the same one. We would meet up with different kids, mostly from better schools. We would talk about different things especially like the different opportunities that had educational wise and sometimes I would feel jealous. Like just because I don’t go to the “prestige” high school, I don’t deserve the same opportunities? After telling them what school we were from they would look at us crazy. I had one girl actually tell me, “I didn’t know smart kids went to that school”. I just
The south has a bad stereotype for being some of the worst schools and having some of the worst education opportunities, along with inner city schools that may be up north. Alabama has one of the worst systems if were to try and list them from the best to the worst. According to Alabama …show more content…
I see both crime and the problems in education both from a conflict’s perspective. Socialist who see crime from a conflicts perspective believe that social inequality leads to crimes as means of economic survival and that those who are in power define what is a crime. I believe this is so true, most of the people I know who sell drugs or steal have a hard life, especially the ones I see at school. There was one boy at my school his name was Josh, he sold drugs in the school and most people saw him as a bad person. Actually Josh was probably one of the nicest people, the problem was his mom died and he had three younger siblings that he chose to help take care of. He did what he had to do to try and help provide for them and finish school at the same time. If he would’ve been in one of those school in east Montgomery, I feel as if they would’ve made a bigger effort to help him. Socialist who look at education through a conflict perspective see that education has different class positions and quality education opportunities aren’t equally distributed. I see it this way to, after actually reading through all the this, I thought back and realized how I saw this all through high school. I was in AP classes and with these classes one of the requirements was that we had to attend AP study sessions on Saturday mornings. At these sessions, almost all the schools participated in the same one. We would meet up with different kids, mostly from better schools. We would talk about different things especially like the different opportunities that had educational wise and sometimes I would feel jealous. Like just because I don’t go to the “prestige” high school, I don’t deserve the same opportunities? After telling them what school we were from they would look at us crazy. I had one girl actually tell me, “I didn’t know smart kids went to that school”. I just