I would have to agree, from experience, with the radical schooling theory, in believing that the schooling system reflecting the interests of the dominant groups in society. Tests have been used for I do not even know how long, but they tend to be the deciding factors of who goes where. The dominating class, though, may truly create, a hidden curriculum, one which defines the many inequalities in our society in its current state. Like read in our previous weeks, inequalities come about because of dominant classes views about society being passed down from parent to child, in which the child then uses to judge the fellow students around them. In turn, this creates a society in the school that could reflect the society of the one outside the school doors.
School disciplinary rules come to classify each student as a “case” rather than as an individual? These individuals are depicted as “cases” in which based on how well they behave in the classroom can determine their societal status. There is no “truth” to who students are in the classroom, they are being classified based on what others depict of them. It can be a harmful process if certain terms such as “troublesome” become a students label. These students may not have the ability to express their uniqueness in a classroom because they are being previously slated as someone who needs to be held to a short leash.
The black adult male body depicts fear? The body language displayed in a classroom is always supposed to be relegated as one that is respectful to the instructor. However, this highly expected posture can in all actuality be highly uncomfortable, and if the instructor has to feel obligated to maintain it in the classroom, how much time is that taking away from learning time to correct the situation. As seen in our college classes, posture is not always held as the most important means of respect, or it does not mean the student is not holding an awareness to what is going on in the classroom. I do not believe in creating a fearfulness in the classroom towards myself.
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School most certainly teaches to the dominant group. We as a society stereo type people all the time, and as teachers we are going to really have to fight the urge to classify kids based on our first impressions of them. Unfortunately there is a fine line between discipline and pushing kids away because they feel like you are treating them differently.
ReplyDeleteJust something on what Billy commented, based on what most studies tell us, as teachers we are going to have to classify kids all the time, even on our first impression of them. We have to know who are the smart ones, the cool leaders, the cliques, the not so advanced, the troublemakers, etc. We will treat students differently for no other reason than because its natural. We are human beings and as such will err at times. Hopefully in our quest for discipline, we don't "adultify" kid's actions and turn little behavioral issues into something big in that students come to see punishment as a natural occurrence. We must always remember that we were all once young and that we wanted to be treated justly by our elders.
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