HW 45

From my understand of both texts it seems to me that Hirsch believes that schools should teach students about more than enough stuff when their in elementary school before they hit high school. Hirsch said in the an article,"not every child is learning about James Monroe in the first grade." Which i agree with because not even i know who James Monroe is. And then for Sizer he believes basically that teachers should make things somewhat easier for the students but not to easy of course because then what would be the point of learning from mistakes. Sizer said in Horace's Compromise " Keep the structure simple and thus flexible." Basically stating that teachers should make the structure of their class of course easy but understanding.

Yes both Sizer's and Hirsch's theories both contradict each other because Sizer wants teachers to make their structure simple but flexible like he stated in Horace's and Compromise. But on the other hand Hirsch says that he thinks that teachers should be teaching their students more facts in first grade so that they basically know more than what they should know. If they both adapted together they should both work out hopefully because then students would do better at school than what students are doing now. Students are usually lost when it comes to politics because they sometimes use metaphors in place of things and a kid who watches it is completely perplexed. But if Hirsch and Sizer come together as a whole students would basically have a better understanding of things. And understand what the hell is going around them instead of them being dumbfounded.

HW 44

I feel that Thomas Friedman was right in a way because the Obama administration like he said is only good at listening but not good at responding back to questions. And that Obama dropped the education that he told the kids he would help make schools better for them but instead he went into a different category. Obama went to the health care stuff even though health care is really important but he should kept the promise he made to the kids at least. And then from the health care plan he went right into the bailout since we were in a somewhat depression which was helper in a way at least.

I agree that we do need more than one school system and that it would be pretty understanding. Like they said in the article that having a school for students and then another one for entrepreneurs would be pretty helpful which varies between different people. And us students are like employees in school just learning how to become employees in the future. And we go to school to get high grades in order to get a high paying job in the future which will benefit us in the long run.

I agree school is like a starting point for everybody. Also school has a disciplinary code you must follow always. If you dis obey the rule you get in trouble with the principal. It all depends on the school and the teacher who keeps control of the kids. Like in the movie freedom writers the kids were out of control at first then the teacher kinda pretty much took charge of the class. The school didn't know how to handle kids because the teachers weren't trained to deal with overly disrespectful kids. And where the school is at also effects how the students act like in the bad part of the bronx kids in that certain school will be going crazy then a couple of kids from nyc.