Margaret Baker Social Work

Ms. Margret Baker’s classroom is learning about the geography and political situations of Central and South America. To Ms. Baker, the classroom is the best place to begin teaching students about politics and what is “correct,” or conclusions based on the facts that she presents. Her opinions are placed on the children through the way she answers questions and presents information. When what she teaches reaches the home of an United States veteran, her opinion that the United States is wrong in their policy toward Central America does not leave the parents with the happy, trusting feeling they should feel toward the teacher who influences their children. Ms. Baker, however, does not feel as though she is presenting the information wrongly nor does she feel it wrong to influence the children toward what she believes to be the correct way of thinking (the Marxist and left-wing view). …show more content…
This directly corresponds with the concept of training students how to properly act and do well in society, in this case specifically for the democratic party. This is a problem since schools in the realm of social solidarity are used to make “good Americans.” In other words, the goal of the teacher is to influence how the children think and try to teach them how to cooperate in current society. According to this view, children are an investment, a lot of where they get has to do with who they know, and they are taught through the hidden curriculum of schools. The teacher in the case study reportedly is using her job to teach the student the “best” values as she sees them, thus fulfilling the view that students are to be taught the “good” qualities of