Spring 2020 Sociology of Education
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.
