Injustice in schools and education is no secret, many people disagree with the system and the way schools teach. Children get taught mainly about what is going to be on their test and they are not being taught real-world, life lessons that will go on in their daily life. It is unjust to teach children for what is going to be on their test and not useful information that they will use in the real world. Teaching should be based on life lessons such as learning how to apply for a job, which you could learn in english class, and other things like that.
For example, one reason that schools teaching for tests is unjust is because at the end of every school year the state of Texas assigns students tests such as the STAAR test and EOC exams to “test the students’ knowledge”. Why does the state of Texas assign a test that “tests the students’ knowledge” but they make it carry such a heavy burden on the students? Students study all year and learn all year about the test and what will be on their test and not about things such as discipline which should be a well taught thing though out all twelve years of school. Schools have classes that you could take for every day stuff but you still get taught for the EOC that you have to take at the end of that course as well. Fitting things in such as discipline in the classroom could be something that schools fit in the curriculum.
Another example of injustice in schools and education is teachers assigning students homework every day.
Lavoie goes on to explain the importance of defining and explaining fairness to your students on the first day of school, so they understand that each individual student will get what they need, even though it may not seem fair to others.
There have been counterarguments such as groups believe their right to self-determination in the area of education is limited. The case of Parents v. Seattle demonstrates the previous statement. Students were subjected to a student assignment plan that used race to determine where the child would go to school. The Court ruled again that this was not fair for the students. According to the authors, a number of educators and academics responded negatively to the ruling of the Seattle case because they felt it harmed the tradition of the integration movement and approach to educational equality.
In addition to that, there is a problem with the lack of necessary resource in a school. Whether this is seen in only a few schools or a lot, it is unacceptable and must be fixed. How can we expect these students to learn, work, and live on an equal playing field when they don’t even have books, while others have every resource you could ever want in a school? We have this idea of education being the panacea of world struggle, but is it really? When we have all these schools that are not fairly treated.
Coming upon my junior year of high school, educational decisions by the Jefferson County School board was slowly coming to an issue throughout the whole district. Many parents, students, and community supporters were frowning upon a particular group of people within the board that had put teachers and students at a disadvantage in education. They were re-evaluating teachers and their income for their own benefit. Teachers would be subsequently be sacrificing a chunk of their income and their work they put into the school, so that the board members and even the superintendent would have an extra raise in their salary. Along that, they were putting pressure on school administration to be tougher on students and that also inevitably made their
Elie Wiesel once declared “There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.” Wiesel’s point is proved by the courageous responses elicited from African-Americans protesting inequality in their communities, spanning from slavery to the Civil Rights Movement, though the harsh bias placed upon black Americans results in a difficulty in fighting against injustice. African-American author Ernest J. Gaines’ novel, A Lesson Before Dying, portrays the 1940s South, taking place in Louisiana, displaying the struggle impoverished African-Americans face on a day to day basis, exemplified through Jefferson’s struggle with injustice within the United States legal system. Gaines’ novel
We are told that we are the land of the free, but in school we are taken many rights. We’ve been told to put our trust into the government, but only to realize false hopes. We are told to follow the books, but realize that they too are filled with mistakes. We are told to help the school by fundraising to grow our education, but then get fined because it’s illegal to sell during school hours and to strangers. Even though they do their best to educate us, they too are restricted on teaching us too much for it “doesn’t go with the school’s study plan,” we seem to have liberty to know all but at the end we are left empty.
Over the course of history, many oppressive systems have been overthrown by the people whom they belittled. Even today, here in our country that boasts the ideology of freedom, we continue to be oppressed under the false pretense of education. You might ask how that is possible because you don’t feel oppressed. Well, it is because that is how you have been conditioned to think by some of your teachers, and the education system.
Education is a right given to all Americans. What would you describe a right that is taken a way? Unjust, something that is not moraly right or fair. If a test is given to students that is proven to be biased, unreliable, and counted towards college admissions, that is ample amount of evidence to prove it to be
In detail, there are many other injustices. For example, in middle-east there are always wars and battles. Children and women are killed because of terrorist attack. The combats caused by resources such as petroleum and natural gas ruined the life of people who live in middle-east.
Racism and classism management in schools today
What if you were not offered the same opportunities based merely off of the color of your skin? What if your peers thought lesser of you because of how much your parents made? It may seem like something of the past, but these manifestations of racism and classism continue to lurk among the depths of schools across the globe. These forms of discrimination are still common within school systems, and continue to affect the lives of many students(Expereiences of racism).
Education, therefore, might represent a means to lay down the foundations of an understanding of social justice for all pupils, so as to ensure that every child receives and experiences the same possibilities of their peers (Mittler,
As Americans, we view the Constitution as a stepping stone to making the great country we live in today. Yet, we the people of the United States failed to realize another component in order to form a perfect union. Which is to establish and promote equal opportunities for a quality education for all. However, we live in a society where social locators such as class, gender, and race are huge factors in the determination of one’s educational future.
Although similar, there are important distinctions to be made between the two. In Education “what is fair and just—may not, in the process of educating students, reflect strict equality—what is applied, allocated, or distributed equally
Equity recognizes that some are at a larger disadvantage than others and aims at compensating for these peoples misfortunes and disabilities
The clock strikes 12:00 am and students are trying to finish their pile of homework due in the morning. Students are rushing to finish in order to get ready for the next day. Schools are assigning students a lot of homework, but the homework can do more harm than good. Negatively affect kids by sleep deprivation. Source of frustration and daily stress.
