In chapter 7 the author discusses excluding beauty by giving his personal experience as a teacher. The experience is about the assignment the teacher gave to the fourth-grade students he was teaching to describe what they said when they looked in their mirrors every day, what they liked and what they did not like in class or school. However, the supervising personnel criticized that assignment. The author describes the situation in apartheid schools which is discouraging. For instance, he states how he attended an apartheid school in Oklahoma City which 90 percent of the students were either black, Hispanic, or Native Americans.
I am in agreement that majority of the apartheid schools lack enough classes since students are many, poor learning environment and few teachers. Personally, I have been to apartheid school, and I can attest that the situation there is devastating and students are not receiving a quality education as compared to other schools. Also, the teachers in those schools per being paid less as compared to other teachers from different schools. Subsequently, the author describes his experience at a segregated school which …show more content…
He states that the issue was being discussed by the majority of the media press and also the federal government assisted in financing this noble idea. In 1959 the program began in small pilot basis, and it was implemented three years later where it served more than 60,000 children in New York. According to the author, this program that was named ‘Higher Horizons’ spent $50 more per student who were included in the program and these encouraged teachers to improve the expectations of the program. I agree to this point because teachers are encouraged to the teacher when they know the government is supporting the students to get a quality
I am in agreement that majority of the apartheid schools lack enough classes since students are many, poor learning environment and few teachers. Personally, I have been to apartheid school, and I can attest that the situation there is devastating and students are not receiving a quality education as compared to other schools. Also, the teachers in those schools per being paid less as compared to other teachers from different schools. Subsequently, the author describes his experience at a segregated school which …show more content…
He states that the issue was being discussed by the majority of the media press and also the federal government assisted in financing this noble idea. In 1959 the program began in small pilot basis, and it was implemented three years later where it served more than 60,000 children in New York. According to the author, this program that was named ‘Higher Horizons’ spent $50 more per student who were included in the program and these encouraged teachers to improve the expectations of the program. I agree to this point because teachers are encouraged to the teacher when they know the government is supporting the students to get a quality