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Reflective Journal: The Purpose of School Assignment
Jennifer Alexandre
EDAS-743 Executive Leadership in Curriculum and Instruction
Author Note
Jennifer Alexandre
I have no known conflict of interest to disclose.
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Jennifer Alexandre.
Email: jalexandresteadman@liberty.edu
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From the time a child is born they are learning. They learn to eat, sleep, and self soothe.
Learning is an endless cycle. They continue to learn and are taught at an early age that they need
an education to become something. The purpose of school is to prepare you for the work force. It
has been imbedded in every child’s head that the pattern is always the same. Go to school, go to
college, get a job, and pay rent. What we call being an adult. Getting a job is not the purpose of
school. In order to receive such an education, they must attend school. As they say school is the
key to success, but who are they? The purpose of school is not to get a job but it is to learn.
My view on school is that the student is there to learn. I do not feel that standardized
testing determines if a student has learned what they need to master. There are many ways in
order to test a student’s mastery and in the 21st century we are stuck on testing and data. In a
classroom we have 7 styles of learners but they are all tested to see if they have retained what
they have learn through standardized testing. How are we as educators helping these students?
When I first began to teach I had the same taught process that was imbedded in me. Go to
school, learn, take the test, pass it, and get a job. I never thought outside the box. Growing up I
was different. I didn’t learn the way that the other students learned. It came so easy to everyone
else in the class, so why not me? Now as a special education teacher I see me in my students. “In
the 1960s and 1970s, the federal government enacted a variety of programs and policies to
improve educational equity for minority children, poor children, children with disabilities,
children with limited English proficiency, and women and girls” (Harvey, James S., Jr., et al,
2013). The reason that these programs were implemented was to ensure that these students
received a Free Appropriate Public EducationC(FAPE). Over the years many others programs
were put in place to ensure that all students received the same form of education.
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Having this view helps shape my administrative philosophy because I am able to see the
bigger picture. I will be able to understand that although data is important, seeing the growth in
students is as equally important.
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References
Harvey, J., Cambron-McCabe, N. H., Cunningham, L. L., & Koff, R. H. (2013). The
superintendent's fieldbook: A guide for leaders of learning. Corwin, A SAGE Company.
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