Not Homeschooling? (RL14)

1.)     Vaughan supports her claim that the public school system is an blatant advertisement for the government as better educators of children than their own parents by stating the tradition of the notion in a "post-feminist" world. This is true as the government funds the schools and it has final say in many of the issues that surround it. However, as Vaughan preaches that a major change is in order, she fails to realize that not all parents are "over-educated" and financially equipped like her, nor do they have the extra time to educate their own children.

2.)     Government Education has a school-to-work agenda because work is exactly what students are taught is a primary goal of school. I remember from a young age hearing things like "You have to get good grades so you can get a good job." However, that school-to-work agenda is slightly corrupted as students have a choice in what exactly what they want to do in the work field, how exactly they want to work.

3.)     I can see where a system of education that forces students to sit in a classroom all day is ineffective, as children can easily get bored and become uninterested and distracted by everything outside of what is being taught. I do remember times when particular lessons, whether they were taught when I was in fourth grade or a junior in high school, that went on far to long and I did space out in my own day-dreamland. However, I do not remember staying in any one classroom all day throughout my entire education career. In elementary and middle school there was recess, lunch, Computer class on Monday, Music class on Wednesdays, P.E. on Tuesdays and Thursdays, and Art class on Fridays. In high school, class periods and blocks were introduced. This is why Vaughan's description is inaccurate. She fails to mention all of these activities that a lot of students are able to take part in week by week. "[Sitting] in a classroom all day" is not exactly what students do on a day to day basis in the education system.