Once on a stormy night, DR. Einstein and Mrs. Foxy were working on the stupid anator 5000, in their dark, spooky, mysterious, Einstein castle on sixth street in between Croaker and Jefferson. While Super Smart and Dumb Numb are in their warm, cool, gigantic, super cave, plotting to save the world from becoming stupid. Then finally at 10:13 Super Smart and Dumb Numb came to the rescue, to stop DR. Einstein and Mrs. Foxy.…
In knowledge and individual power are able to be use in different type of ways it can be seen in leadership. It show how power can make knowledge turn leadership into a better companion. When knowledge and individual power are together, it is able to help out the leadership become stronger. Having power can be a strong thing for someone to have and ability to control the world, but it can be dangerous at the same time. Having knowledge brings balance to power when it is in need of a hand to control things.…
A class divided is a documentary that was filmed in 1968 by frontline about Jane Elliott an elementary school teacher and how she proposes an experiment to her students to help them understand what discrimination means in society. Jane Elliott begins the experiment by asking her class about National Brotherhood week, and what it means and how there are people in american who aren 't treated like brothers, the students respond to her question by saying that blacks and indian americans are not treated as brothers by everyone else. She goes on by suggesting that over a two day period, the class will be split into blue-eyed and brown-eyed students and that on the first day of the experiment, the blue-eyed people are better than the brown-eyed people.…
Power in the eyes of many people is a form of a weapon that is used to produce a negative and unsafe environment for citizens. Most of the time power has a negative effect on society due to the fear and corruption it brings to the table for the leader. The way a lot of people use their power is to show strength and courage over one another and that's what leads to corruption and consequences to society. Power can sometimes be a good and helpful but most of the time it's not due to the people that have the power. Power is a tool not a weapon and people use it as a weapon more than anything.…
A person with power should be a person that has been trained to be able to handle it. You do not want a person with power to act like they don’t need to do anything. Power has a negative effect because it can make you seem frightening and can also cause you to become selfish. Power has a negative effect because it can make you seem scary. In the reading Antigone, power having a negative effect is present.…
Can I get a Kid’s Meal with a Milkshake, Please? Can you image coming home every day hugging your spouse and children reeking of a number two, big mac, with extra Mac sauce for the rest of your life? Don’t forget the greasy fries too. If your answer was no, or something a little more abhorrent, then it’s obvious that you’re going to need more education than just a high school diploma.…
Schools are inherently political. What is taught, both implicitly and explicitly, reflects what societies values. How schools are structured reflects how society is structured. And, most importantly, who succeeds reflects who society values. In America white middle class culture is the only valid culture.…
I believe in some leadership positions people will abuse their power to control or dominate others. Someone with power does not necessarily always make a good leader. Their attitude can affect others negatively. Power reveals people's true character whether it be positive or negative. When people feel powerful others looks very weak in their minds.…
Both the student and teacher are at fault in situations as such. Students should be respecting the teacher’s lesson plans and the teachers should be enforcing those plans and not allowing students to make the decisions. When teachers become too involved in their student’s lives, the students start to see them as friends instead of…
Although allowing teachers the right to have a gun on school property will not solve all of the world’s problems it can be a step in the right…
Bullying Something that every school has in common all over the world is the problem with bullying. In the documentary Bully made by Lee Hirsch in 2011, shows the life of kids, the family of these kids and the hell that each is put through. There are five youth lives that the documentary follows, but there are two kids that weren’t in the movie because they took their lives because of all the bullying.…
What is power? What happens when we allow it to corrupt what is morally right? Power is having control over something or someone else. Once we let it corrupt us we stop doing what is best as a leader and start doing what is selfish. Individuals as a whole have been abusing power for ages.…
Many students are bullied, especially on social media. Not many schools do anything to prevent this situation. Teachers should talk a little bit more to their students about this topic. Children should not fear to go to school because they’re afraid of getting bullied. Bullying in schools happens a lot and there is not enough being done to prevent this.…
Power Hungry There are several positions within the United States Government that seems to have way too much power. However the person seen to have the largest amount of power in hindsight has the least amount of power possible within those thick walls of the White House. The President is granted all of the executive power within the United States. Funny thing is to get anything done the president has to jump through obstacle courses to make even the slightest dent in the infrastructure.…
People in positions of power can also have great influence over how schools function. Michelle Rhee is a little bit of a controversial figure in the K-12 education discussion. She became a chancellor of schools in Washington D.C. form 2007 to 2010, even though she had not ever been a principal or run a school system before. She founded a program called The New Teacher Program which focuses on preparing and training new teachers. She started out as a teacher, beginning in the Teach for America program, which only requires 5 weeks of training.…