Week 1 blog

  I think school choice has its pros and cons in regards to improving public education. Obviously the main pro is competition. The competition of school choice, along with vouchers (scholarships), incentivizes public education to vastly improve its system. If they want to attract students and keep them from using the school choice option, they must improve the quality of their schools and education programs. Some options public education has to offer upgrades is, innovate their buildings, offer unique programs, or just utilize the current, best practices used in today's day in age to stand out amongst your peers. Another pro is that it holds school board members accountable. Accountability is something people lack these days. But when kids are dropping like flies out of schools, members will surely take accountability for it and step up their game. Prime example, my little sister is actually transferring from the high school that both my mother and I graduated from. It is an upsett...

  We read about the history of America and its schooling system in the past. We went through Brown V Board and what stemmed from that case. We read that black kids loved the experience they got from integrated schools because it allowed them to dream of possibilities they could never have imagined before this integration. We heard Kandice Summer talk about how she felt prestigious that she was able to attend a school that had her learning things that kids in her neighborhood were not learning. She felt light years ahead of kids her age because she was privileged with a higher education system. She does not agree with the disparity over the educational promised land, which she was privileged to, and then the other side of the fence which is basic public schooling. The documentary mentioned how schools today could be seen as way more segregated than they were in years past. Also in the documentary it was talked about how principals are not keeping their students in check and the scho...

I think the question “Is Higher Education Worth the Price?” can be a tricky one. Plain and simple, I lean more toward the side that college is a scam. Not college itself and what you learn, but the part I think is a scam is how it is seen as something you need to do to succeed in ;life and get whatever job you want. I went to college for one year full time, then stopped and joined the military. I now have a full time job in the military while doing school online. You can go to trade school, you can work multiple part time jobs, you can do a lot of things in this world without college. However, it is also something that is a privilege and if you are bought into the whole idea that college will take you places, then you need to be fully committed to your schooling and take all your courses and work very seriously.  There are also a lot of things that come from college outside of the classroom that are important. For example, going to school like Michigan or Alabama or Penn State, y...