HW 48

-black male teacher
- rough background
- teaches students what they need to survive


It's Mr. Raymond's first day as a a high school math teacher. As he walks into the building, he can't help but remember his years here. Years of comming just for attendence, and cutting class, until finally he was sent to a detention center for selling drugs outside of school.

(Flash to the empty class room) As he is preparing his class he can't help but think of his purpose here. He knows what his students are struggling with between school and their personal lives. He wants to make sure that what they are learning in his math class will benefit them in the future.

As the year goes on, the students become restless and start to question what the hell is algebra going to do for them in the future?

Mr. Raymond presents students with their first assignment. Pick any career you want and create a monthly budget using the algebraic strategies they've been discussing.

Follow a couple of students journey through the assignment. Those who struggle with it, and then those who are excited about their potential career.

HW 46

During the break instead of reading a novel, I decided to read a few articles and did a interview on my topic. The 3 articles I read were "Schooling in Capitalist America Revisited" by Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis (26pgs.), "Why is Corporate America Bashing Our Public Schools" by Kathy Emery and Susan Ohanian (16pgs.), and "Channel One Enters the Media Literacy Movement" by Steven Manning (4 pgs.).

The main article I read was " Schooling in Corporate America Revisited". the article is basically the revisions of their original book ("Schooling in Capitalist America"), with new evidence that supports or goes against their previous views. Their objective was for education to help make a better economy for everyone without the different prejudices. They were hoping that learning opportunities wouldn't limit people from obtaining the education they wanted. America is still struggling to obtain these objectives. These objectives are looked through human development, inequality, and social change to see how education is affected.

Parts of this article relate to my topic because it shows how public education fails in some ways. The article basically gave me another point of view on schools. Besides explaining how society has an effect on education, it also explained the social aspect of school. How family income offers advantages and disadvantages when it shouldn't. Also how schools in America really only prepare students for 'the hierarchical structure of the modern corporation'.

I totally agree that schools just prepare us for the adult work environment. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but isn't school supposed to be about learning about various topics so you you can be an 'all- around smarter person)? Preparation for working is all hat matters. It seems like less time is focused on the curriculum of school, and more on the social aspect of it. The ideas of respect , authority, compromise, and many other communication skills come from being in school (If not already being taught at home). Being able to succeed in any type of workplace seems to be the focus of schools in America.