Rhetorical Analysis Of School Is Bad For Children By John Holt

In There’s A Reason They Choose Schools, Timothy Wheeler argues that mass murders aim for locations with “gun-free zone” school campuses. He also states that the shooters are usually students who hold “school-related grudges.” He also believes that the shooters take in consideration that schools do not have a high security system. Wheeler believes that there should be responders stationed at every school. These responders may be trained security guards, teachers, or students. Wheeler is definitely accurate when he argues that schools should have armed first responders because the student’s safety is what’s important. He is also correct that mass shooters aim for schools because they are an easier target than most.

In his article “Against School”, John Taylor Gatto criticizes America’s system of schooling children, arguing that the whole system is bad and unfixable. In the majority of the essay Gatto relies on personal anecdotes, historical examples that do not correspond with modern day society, and bold unsubstantiated claims. Due to this, instead of convincing parents to take their children out of school and rethink our societies schooling structure, he just leaves the reader confused over what the problems he’s criticizing truly are.

Mandatory, enforced schooling is common all over the world, and is generally seen as a public good, and a privilege of first world countries. However, author and teacher John Gatto argues that mandatory schooling destroys your ability to be free thinkers and therefore should not exist, in his piece “Against School”. Despite his effective use of ethos, Gatto’s argument fails to be convincing due to logical fallacies, and a lack of evidence or first hand experience.

Let’s do away with the school system. In “Against school, John Taylor Gatto says, “They said the work was stupid, that it made no sense, that they already knew it. They said that they wanted to be doing something real, not just sitting around” (Gatto 608). Gatto uses his article “Against School” to talk about how the school system is not necessary. He uses certain rhetorical strategies and personal experiences to do so. In “Against School”, John Taylor Gatto uses his personal experience in his thirty years of working in the school system and some rhetorical strategies to convince people who have children in the public-school system that kids do not need to be put in the system to have an education.

Many people have witnessed a toddler having a meltdown in public only to have a parent sooth them by giving in to the child’s demand. Although sometimes this can be a beneficial parenting technique, if a parent over-indulges a child too often, then that child can become spoiled. However in “The Veldt”, Ray Bradbury challenges the idea of satisfying children; he suggests through his tragic tale of the spoiled and undisciplined children Wendy and Peter, that over-indulged kids will be taught to not value their family. Through the use of spoiling kids, harms of technology, and conflict, Ray Bradbury shows children need to be disciplined in order to be well-rounded individuals.

I will be focusing on my point of view for Holt’s argument. I don’t support some of the author’s point of view. He states in his writing that children are not allowed to be themselves anymore they do what they are told to do not what they want to do. School is a very important part of the child’s life they should attend to school. In some primary schools the children are the ones that create their day there in way the teacher only provides them with a schedule. He states that children are like prisoners that they have no option to say also teachers can tell the children what they want them to in their class. In my point of view children should attend school for their own good so they can get an idea of what might happen when they enter an elementary school.

A goal is defined as, “the result or achievement toward which effort is directed; aim; end” according to dictionary.com. In high school, this is the most ambiguous word that every teacher uses. They don’t do this on purpose, they do it because administration expects to see them reach some type of goal over some type of time period, usually by whenever the next standardized test is set to be given. The text What High School Is, by Theodore R. Sizer, goes over much of what a “normal” day at the typical high school is like for student Mark, and why it should be changed for X and Y reasons. These days consist of doing what you are told by people “more educated” than yourself, seeing things in the way they want you to see them. In the text The Loss of Creature, by Walker Percy, he sets a huge emphasis on seeing things through

Schools play very important role in our kid’s life. For example, my little cousin Perla was in the first grade when she came with her family to the U.S.A. At the beginning of school Perla had difficult to speak English and understand what her teacher and friends talk, so she did not want to go to school and cried every day. Her teacher tried to communicate with her by signs or program translator, and she always wrote notes to her parents if she needed for that. After one months the teacher invited Perla’s family to an event at school, and she gave Perla a reward for being a good student because she wanted to make Perla loves school. The reward gave Perla a motivative to try learning

In the essay “How the Schools Shortchange Boys”, author Gerry Garibaldi addresses the concern of boys’ behaviors in school. Garibaldi first starts out by stating the feminist complaints that girls were “losing their voice” in a male-oriented classroom have precipitated the school’s establishment to be more in their favor. This has led to boys becoming increasingly disconnected inside the classrooms. Garibaldi claims that “only 65 percent earned high school diplomas in the class of 2003, compared with 72 percent of girls.” He continues by mentioning about how girls are outnumbering boys on most university campuses in the country.

(A/N: i literally could not for the life of me remember what plot we decided on but i’m pretty sure it was that winter moves to milwaukee and greg has to show him around their school? btw i just googled hs in milwaukee and chose the first one i could find hours for so——— i’m going with that plot :3c + character info and reference attached in case you need it!)

Through my personal experience and research I have accumulated that homeschooling has become more appealing to the average American family. Through my research I found more families should consider the task of taking on homeschooling to focus on the student’s personal needs and education style. Charlotte Postlewaite writer of "The Home School Debate” opens her article with “ Homeschooling is perhaps the fastest growing option that parents consider for alternative education and school choice. According to The National Center for Education Statistics, in 1999 about 850,000 students’ ages five through 17 with a grade equivalent of kindergarten through grade 12 were home-schooled.” Thus, preparing their student for college.

High school is a moment of change. Everyone faces different changes, but there are also moments when most teens can relate. In A Separate Piece by John Knowles is set in New England during the time of War World II. The characters are teen boys attending Devon School and, in some ways, they are different also similar from current high school students. The major differences I notices are the structure and setting of the high school they are in, but at the same time, the drama that comes from being in high school is similar.

Even when children have a stable home there are other family life factors that can affect their progress at school. Child neglect, drugs, alcohol, gangs, violence, and hunger can all have a significant impact on how children learn both at school and at home. A child’s first educational experience should be at home, however with increasing use of drugs and alcohol, and sometimes unintentional neglect from not being able to afford quality daycare means that some children entering the classroom are woefully unprepared.

The question, “…is death that which gives meaning to life?” is more than just a question being asked in the short story “The School” by Donald Barthelme, it is a question asked by many throughout life (Barthelme 2). In the short story “The School”, where a series of unfortunate events are happening around an elementary school, it begins with something less tragic from a failed school project, to something dreadful with the death of two students. The author of the story, Donald Barthelme, addresses the issues of life and death through this, and with the conflict of “The School” not only does it teach us to accept death, but also to be responsible with life and to be courageous.

“Riiiiiiiing!” My alarm went off, waking me for another day of school. Rolling out of bed, i caught one whiff of myself before jumping straight into the shower. I closed my eyes, and let the hot streams of water roll off of my shoulders, savoring the precious time before I had to drag myself to school. It isn’t that school comes hard to me, because it doesn 't. Friends roll in my wake, making me one of the most popular girls in school, and I hate it. Everyone is so fake! Most of my so called “friends” only liked me for my popularity, money, and looks. I can’t go a day without hearing, “I just LOVE your hair,” or even better, “I wish I was you.” Honestly, you don’t want to be me. It’s rare for me to see my parents for more than a few minutes each day. They’re so wrapped up in their work that my nanny was the one who taught me to swim, ride a bike, and do all the other things most parents wait their whole lives to witness. Looking in the mirror, I stare into my emerald green eyes, and gently touch my platinum blond hair. The person I am is not the person that I want to be.