Do you think schools should teach students differently based upon their social-economic background? Why or why not?
I do not think schools should teach students differently based on their social-economic background because it isn't fair. Just because a child comes from a lower class family doesn't mean they should be taught any different from a child that comes from the middle or upper class. Giving a child an education is a necessity in their lives, and they should all be treated equally. It is wrong for a teacher to treat a child with no respect or no care just because they come from a lower class, it's degrading to them. Students should be treated as an individual and should be accepted for who she/he is no matter how much their parents make.
What surprised me most about her study was pretty much everything. How she studied 5 elementary schools, two being working-class schools, third would be the middle-class school, fourth is the affluent professional school, and fifth is the executive elite school. I love how she studied all 5 of these schools and encountered the differences. All schools were treated in a certain way based on their parent's incomes. If they were from a low class they got little respect, middle class students got more respect than the low class, and the upper class got the teachers full attention and got taught a lot 'better' than the teachers in the lower class. I'm surprised by her study because I never noticed how I was taught when I was younger. I went to a catholic school and a public school, and looking back on it, my lectures from both schools were different.
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