Cash Rules Everything Around Me
New Intro:
“They say money is the root of all evil, but I money is the root of all people.” In Jean Anyon’s 1980 article, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” Jean realized that there was a very odd trend happening in the schools. She found that money ruled the system. I think that this is a very problemed system that needs a lot of fixing. Making school an equal place would not only better all the education given to students it would create a more equal education given to the students, the educational system should be more balanced because then kids no matter what economic background they are in would have a chance to better their future and make a name for themselves, and finally it would be …show more content…
Anyon traveled to 5 schools on all different ends of the economic ladder to study how they differ, anything from the poor working class schools to the highest end executive elite schools. In a basic summary of the article she discovered that as you climb the economic ladder, you will receive a better education as well as in school experience. In a very much more detailed way she discovered that in the lowest working class schools Anyon found that teachers tell the students the steps to a problem saying “This is how you do them” and that would be it. If the kids had questions they could find the steps that the teacher said on the board “Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down.” Anyon then went on to middle class educations. I think this is when Anyon saw in my opinion what basic education is like now, saying “ In the middle-class school, work is getting the right answer. If one accumulates enough right answers, one gets a good grade.” (Anyon: Page 5) Also Anyon heard the teacher say something every student wants to hear their teacher say “I want to make sure you understand what you’re doing-so you get it right,” also including that the teacher would go over homework with students and ask how they did the problem and also for the answer they got. Finally Anyon studied the highest end school type the Executive Elite School. …show more content…
Which when you think about it 1980 even only being thirty-five years ago, a lot can change. I feel like a lot of people have this strange thought like Anyon did thinking “Someone can get a better education because their parents have more money.” Back then taking about the different public schools that she was, I can completely see it. But I feel like the generation I’m in is seeing a better education because money differently. I feel that that’s kids that grew up the same time I did between 1997-2015 see money affecting education as parents offering money for new grades or getting a new laptop or something that would be an incentive to the student, instead of the money actually affecting the level of school you are forced to go to or anything along those lines. Within my whole education experience I have never seen any sort of money effecting the type of education received. Growing up every kid went to a public school received the same education and that cycle repeated all the way through high school graduation. The only thing I can relate to Anyon’s findings would be kids going to a higher end college because their parents can afford it. But even then these high end schools in my opinion just offer a more known name and higher prices, they are never anything that you can’t just teach yourself or go to a community college to learn. It’s like anything thing else in the world, colleges are just brand names basically. Places like Harvard
New Intro:
“They say money is the root of all evil, but I money is the root of all people.” In Jean Anyon’s 1980 article, “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” Jean realized that there was a very odd trend happening in the schools. She found that money ruled the system. I think that this is a very problemed system that needs a lot of fixing. Making school an equal place would not only better all the education given to students it would create a more equal education given to the students, the educational system should be more balanced because then kids no matter what economic background they are in would have a chance to better their future and make a name for themselves, and finally it would be …show more content…
Anyon traveled to 5 schools on all different ends of the economic ladder to study how they differ, anything from the poor working class schools to the highest end executive elite schools. In a basic summary of the article she discovered that as you climb the economic ladder, you will receive a better education as well as in school experience. In a very much more detailed way she discovered that in the lowest working class schools Anyon found that teachers tell the students the steps to a problem saying “This is how you do them” and that would be it. If the kids had questions they could find the steps that the teacher said on the board “Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down.” Anyon then went on to middle class educations. I think this is when Anyon saw in my opinion what basic education is like now, saying “ In the middle-class school, work is getting the right answer. If one accumulates enough right answers, one gets a good grade.” (Anyon: Page 5) Also Anyon heard the teacher say something every student wants to hear their teacher say “I want to make sure you understand what you’re doing-so you get it right,” also including that the teacher would go over homework with students and ask how they did the problem and also for the answer they got. Finally Anyon studied the highest end school type the Executive Elite School. …show more content…
Which when you think about it 1980 even only being thirty-five years ago, a lot can change. I feel like a lot of people have this strange thought like Anyon did thinking “Someone can get a better education because their parents have more money.” Back then taking about the different public schools that she was, I can completely see it. But I feel like the generation I’m in is seeing a better education because money differently. I feel that that’s kids that grew up the same time I did between 1997-2015 see money affecting education as parents offering money for new grades or getting a new laptop or something that would be an incentive to the student, instead of the money actually affecting the level of school you are forced to go to or anything along those lines. Within my whole education experience I have never seen any sort of money effecting the type of education received. Growing up every kid went to a public school received the same education and that cycle repeated all the way through high school graduation. The only thing I can relate to Anyon’s findings would be kids going to a higher end college because their parents can afford it. But even then these high end schools in my opinion just offer a more known name and higher prices, they are never anything that you can’t just teach yourself or go to a community college to learn. It’s like anything thing else in the world, colleges are just brand names basically. Places like Harvard