A new way to think of school

Annissa Byrd
"High school students whom I talk with in deeply segregated neighborhoods and public schools seem far less circumspect then their elders and far open int heir willingness to confront these issues. “It’s more like being hidden,” said a fifteen-year-old girl named Isabel...”its as if we have been put in a garage where, if they don’t have room for something but aren’t sure it they should throw it out, they put it where they don't need to think of it again.”(C.C.C.S. 147) This quote emphasise the conditioning that they go through in school stating that they just need to sit in the seats and listen and learn. The things is that all schools are that way. It is not just in the lower income areas. It is in Universities, private school and any other place where someone is trying to import knowledge on you. The only difference is the monetary value of the school. I realized that I wanted to go to university so that when i had something to say there was an idea that my word meant something to the greater good and that I was not just spewing words out of my mouth. I needed facts behind what I said and the way I get those facts is by siting in a chair and listening and learning what the teacher has to say.

I believe that these two quotes go together and show how our education system has become a place where a student sits and listens till the teacher is finshed
“There had been major changes since I had been there last. Silent lunches had been instituted in he cafeteria, and on days when children had misbehaved, silent recess had been introduced.” (C.C.C.S. 154); “ I want to change the face of reading instruction across the United States from an art to a science,” said an assistant to Rod Paige, the former education sectary,” (CCCS 156)
With an education system that thinks in scientific way the arts will be lost. They believe that the only way to show progress of the students is by having the students spit back what the said and be able to measure it in numbers. The reason why there is such a decline in reading among out society is because it is not taught as an art but has been broken down into a science. the reader will only read if they will have to answer lots of questions about the reading and know on what exact page the main character died, not why the reader cares that the main character died. The reader emotions are no long apart of reading. This change in how we look and measure inelegance is what is taking the passion for our schools away.

In the first quote the girls state that they are worth nothing and that is where they belong. Before the quote he said that the older generations would not talk to him and that they had trouble saying how they felt. The girls who talked to him had great ways of stating the way the education system was treating the lower class. This change in how the youth are looking at their worth to the greater humanity will bring about change to the neighborhoods and will allow for a greater understanding of the nation.

I don’t believe that it is one groups being separated from the other but I do believe that the finical differences are changing the perceptions of the problems. It is not just the problems of the poor but the problems of the education system because every student has something to say in all finical back grounds but the education system is a place where students go to learn and further their knowledge about the world. So, one day when they have something to say it will have weight and people will want to hear what the have to say.