Jamie Payano
Final Exam
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Tutoring in the educational development should
allow students to guide their own work and obtain the same opportunities to
succeed in the educational system. I believe that students from low budget
neighborhoods don’t have the same privileges in education as students from high
budget neighborhoods; which limits the opportunity of success for the students
from the low budget schools. Allowing students to talk about their thoughts
gives them an opportunity to speak their minds. Students from low budget
schools are deprived from their education as they are “minorities” and because
of this they are left with the shorter end of the stick when it comes to
education. There are some schools that done allow students to obtain the same
education as high-income students so they get the bare minimum when it comes to
education. Tutoring will allow students to gain skills that were not provided
to them in the education system today. Tutors are here to help guide students
and to teach students the skills and knowledge that they did not obtain in
school. Tutoring is essential for the students who are in low budget schools
due to the fact that they do not have the assurance of gaining equal education in
schools, tutors help provide those skills that schools deprive low-income
students from getting.
Children have no choice in
what school they will attend nor what neighborhood they will live in, “we are of the class that our
parents occupy, born into it just as we were born into a nation and thrown into
its culture,” thus emphasizing that children should all obtain the same
opportunity in education, since they are born into their parents social class
by default (Gabryena 1). Kozol explains
the unprivileged schools that students from low budget schools have. Kozol
argues that students from low budget schools do not obtain the equal education
rights as students from high budget schools. “Keep them where they are but keep
it equal” shows the inequality between high budget schools and the low budget
schools (Kozol 86). Kozol shows the
inequality between the two different levels of schools (low versus high budget)
when he quotes a young student, “I asked the student what they learned about
the civil rights campaign … and a young black girl says this: Every year in
February we are told to read the same old speech of Martin Luther King Jr. We
read it every year.” The educational system believes that they are teaching
these students about the civil rights by just reentering Martin Luther King’s
speech every year. The civil rights movement was not just based on the speech
and this system is depriving these students to learn about the cruelty and the
inequality that occurred before their time and which is occurring today (Kozol
84).
The wealthier people in the world are
dehumanizing students from low budget schools. These students are oppressed as
they get the shorter end of the stick when it comes to equality in education.
Hearing people say “how would it benefit me?” if low budget students were to
transfer to high budget schools or if taxes from high income families were to
be used to help the conditions of the low budget schools, really annoys me
because I believe that everyone should have the same opportunity to get the
same education as everyone else regardless of how much money they can bring to
their homes. Society wants us to believe that all schools are equal when in
reality it is not. I believe tutoring in these low budget schools can help
these students obtain the correct skills that the educational system is
depriving them from. By re-teaching Martin Luther King’s speech, the education
system believes that they have done what is required to teach students about
the civil rights movement. Which is the same thing Freir speaks about, the
wealthy people believe that if they take one low-income person from a
low-income school and they succeed, they believe they have done what is
required for that neighborhood. Freir argues that once one low-income person
has succeeded then they must come back and help the rest succeed and not forget
about them (Freir 40). I think that the school system do the bare minimum to
say “they tried to do something” when in reality they did not try anything but
do the bare minimum.
Becoming a tutor and a teacher will allow
me to help these students leave high school with a better education then they
are getting now. Schools today don’t tech students to think on their own
because they deprive them from the opportunity to think outside the box. Freir
believes that when people that are oppressed value the liberation they
obtained, they should go back to their neighborhoods and help the oppressed
become liberated as well, (49). As we are born into our social class, we fall
into these social classes that takes control of what kind of education we are
getting or what kind of life we will have (Gabyrena 3). Tutoring can break
through these norms and change how social classes define ones faith. Tutoring
can change the school system to be better as we include equal education among
students from different income neighborhoods (Kozol 85). If we were to give all
students the same opportunity to get the same education we will be liberating
the oppressed students, redefining social class with the education system and
providing better tools for better learning in low budget schools. Tutoring
allows students to think and talk about their thoughts and help produce better
writing. My philosophy of tutoring is to always let the students talk, they
will always have something to say and as tutors we should always listen and
never say they’re wrong.
