Luis Angamarca

Luis Angamarca
English 1100/35
Professor Young
September 24, 2015

                                                              Education Repeated 

     I strongly agree with Jean Anyon essay because the way education is for the social classes is still the same today. Higher class children still get better education than the lower and working class children. From personal experience I can say that it is true, since I came from a public school in Newark New Jersey. My classroom setting was very similar if not exactly to how Anyon describes the "Working Class Schools" to be.
     I remember that class would be the sane thing every single day. The teachers always had control of the classroom setting. They would give us direct orders and we had to follow them correctly. If we didn't do exactly what the teacher told us to then our work would be wrong.
     When it came to learning, there would be a specific procedure that we had to follow. Like Anyon mentions, we would watch the teacher write on the board. They would explain how to use them and we were to copy them as notes. Then from those notes we were to take them home and study them for tests.
     When it came to our work we would get graded on "not according to whether it is right or wrong but according to whether the children followed the right steps" (Page 3).
     But then when I would met different people from "better" schools their system was completely different from ours. They were allowed to pick topics, they were more advanced than us, and they were allowed to express what they truly thought and to question things. They would learn and talk about subjects that I have never even heard of.
     Higher class students are taught to become thinkers and people of good paying jobs. The education that is given to Working Class Schools is meant to make them take on jobs that are low paying and labor like, you'll get lucky if you become something higher than that. It was the same before and it hasn't changed one bit.