The History and Goals of Public Schooling

American education in my opinion was designated for rich and privilege people.

The term public education does not mean education for all. Minorities and people that

come from poverty usually do no have the same access and opportunities that rich

people do. Although in our days there are more public programs and activities, it does

not compare to the education people with more money receive. As stated, American

values saw education as a way of economic success.

! Despite all changes made in our education system, problems still arise. There

are still issues with cultural, language beliefs, and religion. Leaders of our Education

system still believe in the same ideas. Systematic instruction is essential to democracy

and prepare citizens to work and this will contribute to the stability of the nation. They

create programs and evaluations that cannot be applied to all citizens. The Idea of ”No

child left behind“ , just builds a path to guide low income children not to succeed in

school. With no support or any actual guidance it is never successful. The potential of

the children cannot be evaluated if they are not taking account their disadvantages.

! Spring, Joel (2010) in his book American Education stated “public schools were

establish to serve the public and not necessarily individual desires”. All the cartoons

discuss in class share the same portrayal. Policy makers are in control of the poorer

schools’ futures in the sense that they are able to withhold funding from public schools.

This is to say that without support or any type of proper instruction students are being

forced to a life of failure. Still in today’s America, most kids are receiving their education

through under funded schools.