Order In The Classroom Analysis

“Order in the Classroom” was written by Neil Postman, a professor of communication arts a sciences at New York University. The work was originally published in 1979. This article goes in depth into the education system; its flaws, and its strengths, and what we need to fix about it. There were many proposed reforms and solutions that could work, and others that would not. Some of these reforms include restructuring schools, changing the economic status of students, giving kids a “pre-education” of sorts before they reach school age, and punishing students for misbehavior. Some of these, could work, no problem. Others, are not going to do anything but make the schools worse.
The very first thing that stuck out in this article was a remark by William O’Connor in which he explains that the education in our schools is not inferior, the schools have been getting inferior students. I completely disagree with this statement. Although students are a big aspect of education, they are not the problem with inferiority. I think that schools get their inferiority because of what education has become about. The big goal recently has become to pass the standardized tests. Education is no …show more content…
One proposed solution was punishment; punish students who step out of line. This is the absolute worst decision to be made in our schools. I know that when students get out of school suspension (OSS), they treat it as a vacation day and most of them use it to play video games, and then they still get to make up the work they missed. Many of my friends did this in high school. On another side of that, punishment is giving a student attention. If something is awry in the classroom, sometimes the best thing to do is ignore it. Usually in situations where the students are causing a disturbance, it is because they want attention. Punishing them is falling right into their