Jean anyon social class Draft1

zahir hassan
Jean anyon blog on social class
Draft 1

Do you find it unfair that money is the reason you won't be able to learn like everyone else? This is because  our national education system is corrupt. In areas of lower economic status schools will be more prone to be run down and have less equipment to learn with. After reading “Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Education” By Jean Anyon and “Savage Inequalities” Written by Jonathan Kozol. They both discuss how different economically affected areas can have an impact on a student's ability learn. By examining the conditions of poor schooling areas one can show that people of lower social class will struggle to become successful.

After reading Jean Anyon’s article “ Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Education”,  it led me to believe that this is actually going on to this day even though the article was written in 1980.  She has a large background within education and has taught a lot in different schools around new jersey. She discusses many different types of schools, The working class school, middle class school, affluent professional school, and the executive elite school.  The working class schools students came from a lower economic status then most students. In school they had no ability to make there own decisions. Middle class schools your work had to be correct by following the directions. here you had a little more decision making and had to do some thinking on there own. Affluent professional schools focused alot on creativity and students can freely express their own ideas and apply it to their work.  Executive elite school was for the highest of the economic social class. the students have the ability to reason through their problems and create high quality academic products. Anyons experiences in these types of schools made her categorize them into the sample schools.

I agree with Anyon due to the fact that she has experienced different teaching environments throughout her career. I also have been to different schools in different economic circumstances. I went to middle school in a poor community and then later on in highschool I attended Jackson Memorial High School which was in a much weather area. At Jackson I was much free in making my own decisions on how i wanted to my assignments. “In the classroom, the children could get material when they needed them and took what they needed from the closets and from the teacher's desk”(Anyon 10). In the executive elite school schools the kid were free to use whatever tools they needed for their assignments. In my school it was very similar. All the students gained trust from the teaching staff and were able to use the expense equipment and borrow any tools we needed. I don't really think in lower economic class schools students had privileges like this.