Identity in the Classroom

Both Jean Anyon and Jonothan Kozol's research implies that a student's success is directly linked to his/her social class. I have mixed feelings about this, however moreover I agree with Kozol and Anyon after reading both of their essays.

"The word "Diverse" has become a euphemism for a much plainer word that has become unspeakable"

Diverse is symbolizing discrimination, and/or the inequality of young people in our school systems. It is important to understand that diversity and segregation are two different topics, and every person, no matter under what circumstances, deserves to be their own person, in a group of people. Not one person in one group, separated from another.

"Many people seem to be attracted to the argument that money may not matter much at all."

Honestly, money is just an object. Can it bring happiness? Can it bring success? Well, yes, but only temporarily. Many people feel that paying off any school system to give their child a better education, might actually make their child smarter. This is not the case, money may not matter much at all, but people sure as hell make it seem like it means more than what it is.
                                                              
  "In New York City, for example, affluent parents pay surprisingly large sums of money to enroll their youngsters, beginning at the age of two or three, in extraordinary early-education programs that give them social competence and rudimentary pedagogic skills unknown to children of the same age in the city's poorer neighborhoods."

"Students are not animals, but even animals need to relieve themselves sometimes."

No human being should ever be considered, or even think of them self as an animal. However, in some schools students are treated like such. This is wrong, and there is a difference between punishment, and permanent scarring.

"Silent lunches had been instituted in the cafeteria and, when children misbehaved, silent recess."