english b

Zainab Haidar

ENG113B

Professor Vilma Villela

Essay #2

Revised.

Children, Education, and Social Class.

Have you ever thought how many schools there are? And how many students are going to those schools? Thousands of schools, millions of students are attending those schools. In Jean Anyon article “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work” shows the difference in each social class in the five elementary schools that she visited, and discussed the work tasks and the interaction though these schools. Anyon’s attempted to find some evidence of those in poor communities verses those who lives in a very wealthy communities. In addition, I totally agree that there is a “hidden curriculum” in the school work that believe in “and practice” during their classes, and how it is effecting the students, therefore; the social class is playing the main role in the education system.

Teaching in an elementary school needs someone who has the ability to wait for the result and have the ability to repeat staff many times, because children in this age need time to understand those classes they are taking during their day. Also, elementary teachers must do their best to prepare those students for life in those social classes. Working and doing what is require from you needs following steps and actions to have it done perfectly with practicing daily. During Anyon’s visit in New Jersey from September, 1978 until June 1979 for the five schools she noticed teaches are asking the students to copy what’s on the board and treating them as robots. In addition, in Solmon, Melinda A, and Amelia M Lee article "Research on Social Issues in Elementary School Physical Education." They mentioned that “the social and cultural norms children learn in schools can have a powerful effect on a variety of lifestyle decisions that will affect their physical and mental health.” In this position, educating the child from the very beginning will benefit them in the next step in school if we gave them the time to practice and do well. However; children are easy to shape, if we get all the experience to do that job well. The “practice” situation that teachers are using in the classes has a satisfying result the more student practice and repeat the more they would do well in their exams. Children have a clear mind to think about science or even mathematics problems but they are taught to follow a set of procedure and a few from who’s around would encourage them to do what they discover from their own methods which could be right or even wrong, children always need someone to lend them a chance and by giving them the chance they would create and show how intelligent they are.

Second, the social class has an impact on the community too, either having the money for a high tuition or not, and even they school environment has his own results on the students now and in the future too. The social status and the income of each family has a strong effect on the education the person would get during his life. In James Piereson and Naomi Schaefer Riley article "Getting More Poor Kids into College Won't Fix Income Inequality." mentioned “few students from low-income backgrounds attend college is responsible in large part for the lack of upward mobility in the United States today,” So if the student cannot have the money for the tuition they may not attend schools and get education or they may not have money for the tuition. In the other hand, if the wealthiest people has the money for the tuition they will care about the education and how good quality it is. Furthermore, if the school is one of the top schools in the city they would have the best teachers who are getting high salaries which made them teach with love, also the building of the school and the equipment that’s available would be the newest and the highest technology which will help to understand and love attending daily. On the other hand, the poor schools may have very old teachers who may get low salaries because of the low tuition of the school, and may some of the teachers not teach perfectly because they would not love the place, however, the students won’t have the equipment’s wealthy schools have to let the students understand, also schools may look so old and many things won’t work because of the long period of using. After those students graduate from the college and apply for a job the first thing they would look for in the resume is how high their education was. Stands to reason, if a person got a high graduation certificate they would get the job first. Social class is playing very important role even in the education for those poor students. Finally Dave Hill said “not all sons and daughters of the upper class go into higher education and subsequently take up jobs with high social status, a high degree of power over others, and a high income. And not all the children of semi-skilled or unskilled workers leave school or further education at the age of 16 or 18, and work in low-status and low-paid jobs. But most do.”

Social class might be a problem in education, also the practicing method in the schools. Many positions need to be taken in order to solve the problem which may not be a problem to others. Finding new ways to teach at schools to make everything interesting for all the students and teachers too, even if they do not like the school environment at-all. Having a free education in different levels would let the whole public be grateful, everyone can get a job without feeling the inequality in the country. Also money will not be the biggest problem for the parents to offer the highest and the greatest education to their children, and everyone will have a wonderful life well knowing that their children will have the best education and future during their lifetime and money won’t be the biggest problem in the society.