Analysis Of Living In Two Worlds By Marcus Mabry

Education supports everyone getting opportunities in life and being able to choose better for themselves. As Horace Mann wrote, education is the “great equalizer for all.“ However, the United States Public School system will likely never be able to equally educate its masses of students. Public school educating all fairly is a myth.There is no one entity to blame for this failure. The failure lies with each student who has been conditioned to sit passively in an un-engaging classroom. Its failure lies in some students disrespectfully distracting their classmates and frustrating their once inspired teacher or administrator. The failure lies with administration being distracted with causes of the moment and burns out from knowing that all

He successfully accomplishes this goal, but it is at the sad loss of so much. He realizes he had to stop embracing his Spanish culture and family time to study and organize his thoughts in a manner that is more conducive to being a successful student. He talked about feeling displaced and disconnected at home. Marcus outgrew his parent's conversations and the desire to even try to explain to them the things he was learning about. Being a successful student landed him a scholarship and he moved away to attend college and really start developing his career. Marcus Mabry’s disconnect and sadness at his parents being “Proud” of him is sad. He states, My family has built in me, “a proud feeling”-not just because of where I had come from and where I am going, but because of where they are.” Education has done for him, what his parents had wanted but it also had opened his eyes to the fact that his success while seeing that they still impoverished was a real problem. His being educated has literally taken him away from the ones he loved and wanted to support. The family that had loved him so much and had encouraged him to grow and leaves them was part a problem with education. Education for him and probably for many in the masses of students can bring tremendous loss. Education seeps into the cracks of what use to be

Poorer schools with more diverse populations have poor educational programs. Teachers methodically drone out outdated curriculum on timetables set by standards set by the state. Students are not engaged or encouraged to be creative thinkers. They are often not even given handouts or physical elements of education to touch or feel or engage them into really connecting to the material being presented by the teacher in front of them. Time is not wasted exploring any of the subjects in a meaningful way. As much of the curriculum is gone through as the teacher can get through given the restriction of having a classroom of students that are not picking it up adequately enough according to standardized tests scores. So time is spent re-droning the material to them and re-testing before the cycle repeats in this classroom and other subject classrooms in these types of school. This education is free. As John Gatto writes about in his book, “Against School”, it seems as if the vast majority of students are being taught be blue collared, low paid but obedient citizens. As she makes her way up to less diverse, more likely private and expensive schools, the education becomes better. Students are engaged by teachers that seem to like to teach. Students are encouraged to be