Homeschooling Stereotypes

Trying to prevent neglected children and back-alley abortions, Margaret Sanger gave the moving speech, “The Children’s Era,” in 1925 to spread information on the benefits and need for birth control and women's rights. Margaret Sanger--activist, educator, writer, and nurse--opened the first birth control clinic in the United States and established organizations that evolved into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. During most of the 1900’s, birth control and abortions were illegal in the United States, causing women to give birth unwillingly to a child they must be fully responsible for. This caused illness and possible death for women attempting self-induced abortion. Sanger uses literary devices such as repetition and analogies

Freak the Mighty was written by Rodman Philbrick. It is about two opposite teenaged boys who become the greatest friends. The first one is the fast-growing giant, Max. Max thinks he doesn’t have a brain but that all changes when he meets Freak. Freak, also known as Kevin, is a boy as smart as Einstein himself.

‘You must stay in schools, no matter what your stepfather says.’” (McCormick, 1). She breaks the gender boundaries early on the first page of the book by defying the man of the households wishes and undermining his needs. Ama feels compelled to protect her young child from the

Vitale. The case of Engel v. Vitale was brought up by a group of families from New Hyde park, New York, they were up against the voluntary prayer written by the state board to God, in other words, the study board wrote a Christian prayer up for public students who wants it. A group of parent under their leader Steven Engel(a jihadist) were not Christians and they believed this prayer contradicted their religion, they argued opening a public school with such prayer violates the clause of the first Amendment and the fourteenth amendment. At the end of this case, the court ruled government- written prayers may not be recited in public schools because it violates the first amendment. However these public school students were given a choice they were not forced to pray this prayer, moreover, this particular prayer was not sponsored by taxpayer’s money.

At the same time, she also concedes the fact that the public school system could use improvement. She states: “Public education is one of the cornerstones of American democracy. The public schools must accept everyone who appears at their doors… The schools should be far better than they are now, but privatizing them is no solution…. No one has to win a lottery to gain admission (Page 11).” Ravitch additionally includes a detailed approach to improving the public school system. Unlike Guggenheim, Ravitch is realistic in terms of the pros and cons and is willing to admit that no academic system is perfect.

“In spite of their abstract and difficult packaging, Dewey’s ideas… have repeatedly provided both a foundation for school improvement and a target for education critics” (Eakin 1). Dewey’s Theory that he has created changes the way education is taught forever. John Dewey provides America with the first big step at educational reform. According to the Biography.com Editors, “John Dewey was a strong progressive educational reform. He believed that education should be based on the principle of learning through doing” (5).

King Arthur was a very powerful and intelligent king. From childhood, he learned many virtues and lessons, but he didn’t know that the lessons he was learning had to do with becoming a great leader. Ben Carson is very similar to king Arthur in many ways. Ben learned several things from childhood as well as from reading literature of the world around him which made him a great man later on in life. I will be talking about Ben Carson and why he is a great reincarnation of King Arthur.

Often individuals are prevented from achieving satisfaction due to a fundamental flaw in their character. In the case of Willy Loman, this flaw is his excessive pride and ambition. For the majority of his life, Willy has been primarily influenced by his brother Ben’s success. This has caused him to develop a sense of ambition that is both unrestrained and idealistic. Over the course of his lifetime, both Willy and his sons fall short of the impossible standards of this dream.

After the Second World War, the educational system in Nordic countries such as Denmark, Norway, and Sweden “was influenced by reform pedagogy and progressive pedagogical movements. These movements believed that the traditional form of education tended to create passive citizens, and they criticized the schools’ barrack-like architecture, rote learning, strict discipline, authoritarian teachers, and rigid pursuit of knowledge and skills” (Lieberkind, 2015). This was the first step that these countries took to take action, they believed that it should be a student first mentality. With all this change in mind, it was not until at least the 1970s that these ideas took place and became recognizable to the students. On the other hand, schools in America have a lack of teacher education innovation which does not let the youth of today express themselves the way they want to because they are stuck in a classroom culture of last century.

In the film Lalee’s Kin, the school superintendent Reggie Barnes, described Tallahatchie county schools as being the worse of worse because they were a level 1 school according to the ITBS. As he pointed out, the system was built to fail these children. He partly blamed the state for not taking responsibility to provide him with the funds needed to hire more qualified teachers and purchase school supplies need to teach their students. He advocated for adequate and identical educational opportunities for students within his school district as the rest of Delta school district had. The state threatened to take over the schools if there was no improvement.

No Child Left Behind was passed by congress and was signed by President George Bush. The federal role was holding schools accountable for the students academic success due to No Child Left Behind law. Standard testing were given to ensuring that states and schools were performing and were achieving at a certain level. If states did not comply with the new requirements of No Child Left Behind then they were at risk of losing federal funding. The No Child Left Behind was ultimately created to change the fact that American education system was considered internationally competitive­­.

Facts of Case Arch Everson when to court to challenge the constitutionality of a check given to children who paid to bus their children to private schools. Ewing Township’s Board of Education established the plan using a New Jersey statute that allowed for that allowed school districts to create their own guidelines for transportation. The private schools in the region were mostly catholic. A state court abolished the program. The New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals reversed the decision, Everson then went to the Supreme Court (O’Brien 768-769).

He was the only child, so he pretty much received everything he wanted. His mother, Susan Bradley, worked as a school teacher and his father, Warren Bradley, worked as a bank president (Bradley, Bill. Notable). However, that is not quite correct. Others believe that his physical ability was what accounts most for his great success as a citizen-athlete.

DeVos simply did not know what IDEA was and who it benefited. IDEA is a federal law that requires schools to serve the educational needs of eligible students with disabilities. I believe this is a very important topic considering the fact that 2.8 million children from the age of seven to seventeen have disabilities that effect their learning in schools. After questioning on IDEA DeVos later stated that the states should be allowed to decide if they provided IDEA to families instead of the federal law enforcing IDEA. IDEA must be enforced by federal law because federal law provides money for the act.

Men and women in our culture are constantly forced to act a certain way. Humanity takes joy in dictating how each gender should behave. In “Jock Culture” by Robert Lipstye and “Strong Enough” by Wendy Shanker, we learn countless pressures and insecurities that both women and men face in today’s society. The tension placed on both men and women to meet a certain standard may often lead to catastrophic outcomes. Unfortunately, both men and women constantly feel the pressure of fitting into society’s norms, but fitting into these norms comes with many consequences.