Around the world, there are some children that don’t receive the adequate education to eventually graduate from college. Specifically, in the United States, those with low-income, lack of school because they have a limited education level. Although schools offer education, the school system teaches children skills that would eventually need in the working field one day. As it’s explained in the book Public School Administration by Ellwood Cubberley: “Our schools are…factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned…And it is for the school to build its pupils according to the specifications laid down.” Cubberley points out important facts that children face and are forced to follow in today’s society. For this reason,
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Even though schools enforce this system to take control over what the students are learning in class, there could be many questions about why the school system works this way. However, children are yet to follow the teacher’s procedures. Some children struggle in class when teachers don’t influence in the kids learning environment, and children perform lower than other students. In the article The Hidden Curriculum of Work by Jean Anyon explains how schools get students ready to work and not educated. For example, “The procedure is usually mechanical, involving rote behavior and very little decision making or choice. The teachers rarely explain why the work is being assigned, how it might connect to other assignments, or what the idea is that lies behind the procedure or gives coherence”. For the most part teachers have a way of teaching because that’s what they supposed to follow. If a student its place under a certain education level, they would teach what its only essential for them to know. However, when the teachers assigned homework or work they don’t expect a lot from the children because their purpose in school is to learn “job skills” for the future. The Hidden Curriculum of Work contributes to the downfall of the children who are willing to make a change, but with teachers neglecting students to get educated is a barrier that kids need to break in order for them to overcome the line that separates factories from
Even though schools enforce this system to take control over what the students are learning in class, there could be many questions about why the school system works this way. However, children are yet to follow the teacher’s procedures. Some children struggle in class when teachers don’t influence in the kids learning environment, and children perform lower than other students. In the article The Hidden Curriculum of Work by Jean Anyon explains how schools get students ready to work and not educated. For example, “The procedure is usually mechanical, involving rote behavior and very little decision making or choice. The teachers rarely explain why the work is being assigned, how it might connect to other assignments, or what the idea is that lies behind the procedure or gives coherence”. For the most part teachers have a way of teaching because that’s what they supposed to follow. If a student its place under a certain education level, they would teach what its only essential for them to know. However, when the teachers assigned homework or work they don’t expect a lot from the children because their purpose in school is to learn “job skills” for the future. The Hidden Curriculum of Work contributes to the downfall of the children who are willing to make a change, but with teachers neglecting students to get educated is a barrier that kids need to break in order for them to overcome the line that separates factories from