The bottom line reflection

 

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Week 5 reading summarized about businesses investing and donating towards schools. This last chapter had taught me a lot about what businesses do for the public schools. On page 174 in the third paragraph, it states that “Business interest in schools has largely involved private individuals and groups drawn from a variety of large, middle-sized, small businesses.” That stood out to me because I did not know businesses were donating to the schools. The reformers strongly believed that the schools should be modeled after the corporation and marketplace. Within the United States businesses had involvement in public schools. The reasoning is because they wanted to change the school goals, governance, management, organization, and curriculum. It isn’t a secret that businesses donating to public schools has changed a lot in the classroom. In the mid-nineteenth century educators, public officials, and many business leaders worked together to improve most of the schoolings. An assignment that my classmates and I had was choose one word, sentence, and phrase. The sentence that stood out to me was “Over the past century, businesses have started schools, helped educators manage, donated cash and equipment, persuaded children and teachers of the importance of a market economy, and subsidized programs aimed at enhancing teacher knowledge and skills.” Growing up I always thought that the government would run the schools and own the property. Also, I thought our parent's taxes were also a huge apart of the fundings for the school as well. One of my group members selected the word “vocationalize.” She selected it because it “captured a fundamental element of the piece, demonstrating how the aim of the American education has evolved over time.” She added that the word” referred to the transition of schools from institution focused on broader educational aims.” Which I strongly agree with because throughout this chapter covered about the school and how businesses were making the school better.  This information that could’ve been added to her discussion board was the three key of public officials, corporate leaders and educators. First it was the economy becomes more efficient and prosperous when businesses compete freely in the marketplace and consumers make choice among varied products, public schools would become more efficient and effective if they competed with one another and gave parents choices of where to send their children. Second, maintaining information based economy, students will perform better in their workspace if they have taken rigorous academic subjects. Lastly, schools unlike businesses, show no profit and losses. Test scores measure what was being taught throughout the year. And what employees will perform in their workspace. My other classmate chose the word “equity” it was a huge key element in the conversation surrounding American public education. I strongly agree with that because the education needed to be fair towards the students, just like it was discussed in the last chapter about the black students not receiving fair education. They weren’t being treated fairly, they were going through a lot, and the black students and their parents fought for them to have fair and equal treatment.