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Public Schools
Michael Blades Keyword ENG 501 "We are faced with a public arena of shallow optimism, of grandiose banality and vulgarity, of sweeping machineries of surveillance, and of brutal structures of violence that tunnel through the flesh and marrow of everyday life" (McLaren 9). With such a conception of public life at hand, and with generations of school bound children and adults ready to strap on their backpacks to be schooled, where do we find the public schools themselves? If "the schools are a great theater in which we play out conflicts in the culture" (Cohen and Neufeld 86), what conflicts have arisen as a result of our public school system, and how are professional educators addressing these conflicts? This essay could have been titled "Schools." However, in thinking about school and its relationship to education, it would be much too broad a subject to cover, even in a limited sense. Therefore, as school relates to our conception of education, it can be systematically split into two distinct camps, public and private. The main difference between the two is apparent, or at least simplistically apparent. Everyone has the distinct notion that public school is a service provided and regulated by the state, and comes at an extremely low cost to the citizen of that state. The state collects taxes, then disperses those funds back to the community for the regulation and creation of schools. The school belongs to the community, and children attend the public school at no additional cost to the family. Private schools, however, run on a much different principle. They are supported by private funds and not open to the public at large. Students pay tuition to attend the school, and the school is usually run around a central and private ideology. For example, the Catholic Church operates schools designed to educate children in accordance with Biblical educational ideals. You will not find a community electe... Please login to view comments from other users.
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