Middle-Class And Education

Getting an education is an important part of every child and teenager’s life, but not all get the same type of education. In Jean Anyon’s essay “From Social Class And The Hidden Curriculum Of Work”, she explains and talks about the four levels of education. According to Jean Anyon, the four levels of education are the Working-Class School, Middle-Class School, Affluent Professional School, and Executive Elite School. From my experience, I attended a working-class school named Santa Ana High School located in a low income and high crime neighborhood of the city of Santa Ana, CA. In the author’s words, a working-class school is, “A school for students with parents with low income jobs, and with an income at or below $12,000”(Anyon 138). I believe got a working-class education because we rarely used the textbooks in class, learned through common core, and taught an education from average standard courses. Also, I believe I attended a working-class school because my high school education just taught me the basic skills of attaining a minimum wage job, whereas in professional school, or elite school students are taught knowledge and skills that lead to higher wage jobs. My experience relates to author Jean Anyon’s essay because I felt the working-class school category matched my high school education. For example, in the essay she states, “In working-class schools, work is following the steps of a procedure. The procedure is usually mechanical, involving rote behavior and very little decision making or choice”(Anyon 140). Author Jean Anyon also states, “Available textbooks are not always used, and the teachers often prepare their own dittos or put work examples on the board”(Anyon 140). Both of these examples from the essay relate to my high school education because we would often do assignments created by the teacher rather than do assignments provided by the school textbooks. From my high school education, I received a working-class education because although we did have new buildings, new technology, and a clean school campus, the high school was located in a low income, and dangerous neighborhood, and students received an education from average standard courses. In my opinion, I received a working-class

Do you think your school system prepared you enough for the workforce you want to pursue. Their is a correlation between an area's income to education. Those in the working class have different attitudes of teaching children compared to the elite class. There are four types of schools based on income, working, middle, upper, and elite class. The attitudes these classes give toward knowledge and work teaching their students for the working class is teach information because it is required, middle-class is to learn how to get right answer and not understand why it's correct, upper class teaches material and children know why they are learning, and the elite class prepares students to be quality hard workers who stand by their work.

Although the notion propels many political debates, it’s simply not true. At the very least, it’s a debatable proposition. Yet I can’t remember a single journalist, debate moderator, or editorial board pushing back when a politician drops the usual trope about the middle class “shrinking” or “being squeezed” or “stagnating” or being “murdered?” It’s simply a given that the middle class is under duress.

Thesis statement: The upper middle class residents of South End proudly expressed their love for diversity in the community yet romanticized being helpful by controlling and reconstructing the original residential norms. In condemning the routinely behaviors and common establishments in the neighborhood, it became evident that their true intent was to control the population.

Since the middle class makes up a significant amount of the United States population, this group would reflect the majority of the behaviors and views of the United States population. However, there are some inaccuracies when attempts are made to use the middle class the sole source of the opinions of the country’s population. Focusing on only the middle class will leave out the opinions of the lower class, as well as the upper class. Both groups have extremely different outlooks on the creation and stability of American culture. Having these differences come into play in attempting to define deviance. Trying to define deviance is rooted in issues with education, money, religion, and other social constructs. In these areas, the ones that cement

“If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.” Those words were the famous phrase spoke by Johnnie Cochran, one of the defense attorneys, in the case of “People of the State of California v. Orenthal James Simpson.” This eminent motto marked a key turning point in what is known as the most publicized criminal trial in American history. This case brought about many social issues in the country and the American Criminal Justice system. Of the many social topics raised by the case, a few that are most imperative are social class, education, and race.

The philosophy of Karl Marx begins with the belief that humans are inherently cooperative with common characteristics and shared ends. To human beings, life is considered an object and therefore, humans make their “life-activity itself the object of his will and of his consciousness” (Tucker 76). In other words, humans are able to think, imagine, and “produce even when he is free from physical need and only truly produces in freedom therefrom” (p. 76). It exemplifies that idea that humans not only have the capability to create things for survival but express themselves in what they produce, within the standards of the human race or universally. When capitalist wage-labor enters the picture, it forces these shared ends and the freedom of expression in human production to cease, causing a rise of competitiveness among

As the middle class in American is shrunken yet United States is giving up a new range number 1 to China which once again put the focus on economy. I am a firm believer that economy is vague and convoluted subject but nonetheless middle class has proven to be the binding force for an emerging economy for two reasons, one is their ambitious goal to get reacher and two is their concerned of being poorer. If you look at the numbers of the components (rich, poor, and middle class) you find a preponderance numbers that indicate middle class is more educated than the other components for the reasons discuss above!!. China, Japan, and India have established a great program to shrunken the gap between the richest people and poor while subsidizing the

Growing up, I resided in an upper middle-class neighborhood. My family and I were comfortable and did not have many financial and economic hardships. Unlike my students, I had the freedom to play outside my home, indulge in many gifts, at birthday and Christmas, take family vacations, and most of all, have two parents in my household. Both of my parents are college educated, my grandparents as well. My parental grandmother retired as an elementary school teacher in Glen Burnie, Maryland. When I started grade school, specifically late middle and high school, I found myself trying hard to “fit in.” I began talking like, dressing like, and acting like a child who wasn’t taught proper etiquette. I used slang in conversations with students I admired and _______. [finish thoughts]

After the Financial Crisis of 2008 the economic status of the country began taking a toll on the middle class. As the years have progressed, the increase in inequality without any aid to these hard working middle class families has grown to be a problem for Americans. Currently, the attitude of the American middle class is that they are being ignored by the United States government. This comes from many factors that have diminished the value and definition of a middle class American, in addition to forcing these Americans to struggle to make ends meet. The sense of pride of being a working middle class American has lost its appeal and has changed the predisposition of what it means to live above the means. Middle class families are struggling to provide necessities for their children. They are constantly worrying about how they will stretch their incomes and provide a comfortable lifestyle for their families. In order to provide immediate relief to the middle class action must be taken directly by the United States government. This concern for direct impact is shown with the initiatives by Democratic party leaders to aid the middle class. The Democrats have been strong proponents of pushing the middle class back up to its previous standard. They have actively defended the middle class, showing their support for immediate reform that would benefit specifically middle class workers. The middle class has continued to shrink and without action taken immediately this problem

life chance that affected my parents’ parenting style was the local need for manual laborers. Both of my parents work hourly jobs. My mother has never been to school and my father went to technical school, became a mechanic, but later decided he didn’t like the profession and settled for a job at a local paper mill. In the town that I’m from people are praised for their work ethic and not their level of education. Individuals may go to college, but end up working jobs that have little to do with their education. This is mostly due to the limited amount of jobs that allow college grads to exercise their education. Since there is a greater need for laborers many families end up falling into the “working-class.” The citizen in my hometown view people especially men, who work in laboring fields as hard-workers, manly, and upstanding citizens.

Overall, in society's class lifestyle also affects how children are raised for example, a working class person is more likely to raise their child to be working class and middle class children are more likely to be raised to be middle class. For example, including being a doctor or even being a criminal the status, then determines a set of behaviors and expectations for the individuals. Different profession, those in the upper middle class are restricted to live by a means which is considered by all else to never lower their prestige to that of the commoners and middle class go forth and fulfill their ambition of entering a life style that is structured around them in their occupations.

According to Marx’s “Labor theory of value” the common low skilled worker in the market of today is being underpaid and the high-skilled workers who run the market are pocketing the difference. This compounded with the added burden of high taxes and paying for the benefits of the elderly and disabled is an unstable basis for a market. Marx believed that all low-skilled workers needed is enough money to survive, in the market today the common man wants much more than just to survive. The feeling of entitlement within the workforce goes against many of Marx’s beliefs about the market. As more and more of the population become educated the amount of low-skill worked decreases, this in turn

It was the year 2015, eighteen years ago I began to ask questions about various events while wondering why are the people in society the way they are. I wanted to know why do the people living in ghettos behave the completely opposite of the people living in rural areas. However, keep in mind that I am speaking through the view of sectioned populations as an averaged whole. In contrast to viewing people and their living environment, I noticed that most of the upper class children behaved the same way as the middle class children. However, I did not recognize that situation until one of my friends made it visible when he wanted me to come to his home. When I arrived at his home, I was shocked, asking “You live here”. He just replied, “This is nothing. You should have seen our earlier homes and our vacation house”. I then later found out that his father paid for the house cash when they came from France to America; he thought that everyone paid for their homes cash. I explained to him that most people make mortgage payments. Meanwhile, my life was completely changed because of race, social class, and education.

Good (time of day) America, I am quite aware we are busy people, especially people of the middle class, working 40 plus hours a week, so I will try my best to keep this brief. Today’s middle-class faces some of the biggest challenges and progresses to get worse and worse every year, day by day, slowly but surely the income gap increases, separating the one percent of citizens from the lower ninety-nine percent. America also faces physical and infrastructural problems that need serious attention. This is where I will apply myself in, The United States Executive Branch, and better the country to its glorious and profitable self as it once was. Together we can reestablish a better economy, recreate a realistic middle-class standard, which currently does not have an economic value significantly higher than lower classes and lower than other country’s middle class.