Carrie’s TEBlog

After reading Labaree I completely saw how the educational system was set up the way he said it was. I never realized that there were such concrete goals in education. I see though now how it is set up to try to achieve democratic equality, social efficiency, and social mobility. It just amazes me how much education is political and so forth, I just never really saw it. I do see how these are conflicting. I have always thought that the school system was failing because there are so many different views and goals inside it. Everyone has their own agenda and school is the perfect place to force it upon impressionable minds. School is to get people ready to go into society, so different people and locations are going to feel that this requires different things. I think a great idea would be to make education more uniform. I know this is impossible, but it would solve so many issues I believe. Every school district is quite different from the next. This seems to be a problem to me. I think schools would be more effective if they were more uniform. I also found it interesting that he said the biggest problem was the dominance of the social mobility goal. This to me is so true. The problem is that schools have all these great theories and ideals, but outside in society they do not work. School systems need to focus on how they can change society and make the ideals workout. I thought it was interesting how he said that public schools are being called government schools. Education is so political it makes me sick. I think people need to realize education is meant to be for growth not politics. I guess I agree education should be a private good, but I do not plan to teach at a private school.