Mariia Gonchariuk

English 1100

9/23/2015

Prof. Young

Status Race For Education

          How powerful is status? Can status promise you a bright future? Can it lock you down in less perspective ways of living? Chairperson of the Department of Education at Rutgers University, Newark, Jean Anyon believes that ones future depends on their family status. I personally believe that the investigation she did on this topic is right in some ways but wrong in many others. Because a person can succeed in life no matter from what type of family he or she come from, it all depends on their character and their abilities to overcome whatever life throws at them.

         Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work by Jean Anyon shows types of schoolwork in contrasting social class schools. “Differing curricular, pedagogical, and pupil evaluation practices emphasize different cognitive and behavioral skills in each social setting and thus contribute to the development in the children of certain potential relationships to physical and symbolic capital, to authority, and to the process of work.(p.10)” With the help of her research between 5 schools, she states that schoolwork separates its meaning and quality by different social classes, like working class, middle-class and elite class. For instance, she's trying to prove that lower class schools are preparing their students for working class jobs when elite schools are on path of teaching their kids to become doctors, lawyers, CEOs in the future.

         Although I do believe that Anyons point about the quality contrast between elite class and working class schoolworks is true, my trust in ones abilities cannot be forgotten. I believe that if a person sets a goal to strive towards and will do whatever it takes to accomplish it, he or she will have the same chance of succeeding with the person from elite class, that had everything given to them. Many cases in this country of people that came from poor and broken up families that had no money to feed not talking about going out to study at a school had found their way out and are living their life to the fullest right now. It all depend on ones power withing themselves.

Works Cited

Social Class And The Hidden Curriculum Of Work By Jean Anyon, and 1/9/09 11:44 Pm. Social                  Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work by Jean Anyon (n.d.): n. pag. Web.