Portrayal Of The School

Is there a different attitude toward children in both books versus the children of today? Discuss the role that youth play in each.

“The School” is a short story written by Donald Barthelme and published in 1974 in The New Yorker. Donald Barthelme is a post-modernist writer known for his deceptively simple yet powerful and insightful short stories. “The School” is a story that takes a good hard look at the sensitive topic of death. The theme of this story is about the cycle of life and how death is an integral part of it. The story is written in first person narrative. The narrator here is the teacher and he talks about how he and his young students of 30 kids encountered death throughout their time together in class. He uses edgy humor and a conversational tone in his seemingly complex plot with a surprising effect that will stick with the reader long after they are done reading it.

Within the poem “Schoolsville” by Billy Collins, the author describes his career as a teacher, highlighting the relationship with his students and how they have impacted him. Collins executes this through his creation of an imaginary town, intertwined with the reality of his profession and the real world. Through the frequent use of exaggerations, humorous imagery, and critical diction, Collins captures his weakening grasp on reality. The speaker captures himself in a dark moment where he realizes how detached he has become from his students and reveals his sense of hopelessness as a teacher.

The film “Taking Back the Schools” was an extremely great video to give visualizations to issues and struggles that ELLs in America once faced. The video served as a very informational tool for myself, as well as a detterent. Following World War II, Mexican-Americans began to come to the actualization that the current education they were recieving and accepting was inadmissable. It was along this time that the Mexican-American began to analyze what they were being taught in the public school, and deciding that change was desired. Students began to walk out during instruction and speak out about the injustices that were transpiring every day in Americas schools, but in particular students in the Los Angeles County School System. The academic

I’m not going to bore you with facts you probably won’t recollect and I’m not going to act as if I am supercilious to this issue, but I am one for a change. Everything is going to change eventually, the court outside of the Newhalen School needs to change. The court is getting superannuated and precarious, the basketball rim and backboard is getting rusty and worn down by the years of snow, wind, and rain. We need a safe environment for our future generation. This court right now is intact, but imagine it years from now. It would collapse. The rim looks like it’s about to break off every time I go to shoot around there, and people should fear of that happening. If the rim did fall it would induce serious damage to the victim of that happening. The court currently is disintegrating and the nails that are holding the boards together are

Ever since this kid was in second grade, he always wanted to be in band. I was there when he heard the Keller Middle School band play for his school, and even though he didn’t get to high-five Frosty the Snowman I knew he was excited. In fact, he was so excited that he threw me off and I was shipped off to the lost and found for a day, until he got me because there’s no doubt he was cold without me. Anyway, Shane always had his heart set on being in band. The band director, Mr. Maus, had told everyone to tell him if they wanted to be in band once they got to Bear Creek Intermediate, and that’s exactly what he did. Shane was determined to do exactly what he wanted this time.

Transferring to Carencro High School was really terrifying. I was a Lafayette High School student and we just thought we were the best school since we were an A school. Like “ nobody couldn’t tell us anything.” That been my mindset for the past 3 years since I’ve been there. I remember there were times I was like” I can’t wait to leave that school.” I honestly didn’t think I would be leaving so early.

Silas Willard elementary school is mostly populated with students that are white. Hispanic and black students are the next two ethnicities. There is a 57.4% of kids coming from a low income family, which is awfully sad because that is more than half the students. The kids with limited English is only about 3% so that shouldn’t really be an issue. It says only 5% are homeless which seems pretty low, but could be something that they could fix in the future. The mobility rate is pretty low at 12.5%. The student attendance rate is at 94% which I think is really impressive. I think that demographic wise, the children the issues seem to be pretty low, so I feel like there shouldn’t be too many challenges for them. The class size for this school

The arrival of the town’s carnival meant two things: summer was coming to an end and school was starting up again. While Ryder would normally groan at the thought that his summer vacation was ending, it was kind of bittersweet this time. After all, he was entering his last year of high school and it would be the last time that he would walk down the halls of McKinley High. It was crazy to think that he would be graduating in just a couple of months and despite the fact that he was pretty stoked to move on with his life, he couldn’t help but be a little scared too. He knew he couldn’t dwell on it too much though, which is why he had to make the most of his senior year, while trying to keep his grades up.

Although we might all get the equal education there is still times in which education might seem unfair or not high quality. Since we do have the possibility to go to school all we need is for the teachers to give us their time and effort for us to become great people in the future. In Kirp’s article “The Secret to Fixing Bad Schools” it says we should be giving the students' “teachable moments”. This is a great option of helping the children out. They will be able to learn and make connections to their education materials if they are taught the right ways. It also says a way for students to succeed “students must become thinkers, not just test-takers” I feel like this is a very powerful saying. Kirp have a good point students should become

From the 1860s forward, much focus was in the country was on people and their inherit rights under the United States constitution. However, even with all men being equal under the law in the 1940s, many were still segregated and racism was and still is very much alive. School districts had separate schools for whites and blacks and some systems even had separate schools for Mexican-Americans. Mendez v. Westminster was the first case in 1947 that overruled the segregation of schools due to race and language in the Westminster, Garden Grove, Santa Ana, and El Modena school districts of Orange County. This case was a major positive stride in the desegregation in America at the time. During the case, segregation was proven to be against the 14th

Gluck continuously presents the schoolchildren as simple, orderly creatures. She portrays them as heading to school with

I believe everyone has a right to a challenging and inspiring education. Today, we face the monumental challenge of making this a reality. Sal Khan’s book The One World Schoolhouse, illustrating a reimagined vision for education, fascinates me. I would like to learn more about psychology and neuroscience. By better understanding the different ways people process information and the different ways the mind works, I hope to make learning a more imaginative, engaging, and efficient experience for students.

The film The World in Claire’s Classroom, 2000, shows us an alternative first and second grade classroom dynamic that Claire helps facilitate by her teaching style and beliefs.While certain parts of the film are socially problematic, in regards to some methods when learning about other cultures, Claire practices very progressive teaching methods and concepts that our class has covered. Because of using these varied teaching methods, Claire is also creating a more indepth and engaged learning environment that appears to have a positive impact on her students. Two concepts that I will be introducing and comparing to Claire’s classroom are Self-directed Learning and The Four Aspects of Engagement. Both of these concepts connect to multiple

`One of the biggest aspects of the Calvin College community that poses a threat for disunity is among the different cultural groups. The role of cliques in a school setting is not uncommon to see in grade schools, however, that fact that it continues on in the same manner in college is somewhat surprising. At Calvin, it is easily noticeable that there are groups based on nationality and (or) ethnicities. These groups often times do not allow outsiders into their group. They know the differences that exist between them and outsiders. Calvin prides its self on having international students, then how can this still occur? That fact that this occurs even at a Christian college is troublesome. When there are cliques that separate themselves from other clicks it creates divisions and causes disunity. There are many social psychology aspects that can be used to explain with this occurs. These are: ingroup and outgroup, outgroup homogeneity effect, groupthink, and group polarization. Furthermore, there are differences in the cultures where the international students come from which could make them feel out of place when coming aboard. That is, some cultures are individualistic and some are collectivistic. Furthermore, there role of stereotypes and prejudice play a role in causing disunity.