Thinking about education: Freewrite response to Anyon

Susie Huerta

English 250B

Blog assignment # 5

-Do you believe that the difference between schools Anyon observed are a problem in a democratic society? Why or why not?

I believe that the difference in the schools is a problem, because we are not getting an equal education. It is like discrimination. It seems to me, like a subtle way of discrimination, and the parents have no say in how they’re kids are being taught because that is where they live if they want a better education for their kids they have to move to a more expensive place, and sacrifice other things, like food for example, for them to get a better education. We are deprived of an equal education, I don’t necessarily think that we won’t be able to get as far as the more privileged kids, but I think it will be harder for us to get to that level, because we have to learn all that they have learned throughout their entire lives in a few years.

-In what ways do your educational experience reflect Anyon’s obervations?

When I was in elementary school, we had to ask to go to the bathroom, even in high school. Also had teachers who didn’t care about the class, and a few who didn’t teach, yet they expected us to know the material. All of my English classes just showed us where to put commas and the different punctuation marks, but to this day I don’t really know where colons go and I still write run-ons and fragments. I think that the teachers probably taught us only that, because like the ones in the observations they also thought that that was the only things we would need, but they’re wrong! We will go further and get the same job as the other students have!