The Hegemonic Education System

Final Hegemony Essay

Hegemony can come in many forms, but the type that impacts the world most recently is educational hegemony. Students’ identities impact their chance of getting an adequate education in America, and although we do not enforce the system we still take part in it. I a part of a hegemonic education system, I am a minority in the system, but I am still part of the hegemonic norm that receives a proper education.

Education can be become easier or harder to attain depending on your identity. The educational segregation in the 60’s meant that white and black students could not go to the same schools. The schools for black students were less funded and some school only taught skills needed for agricultural work. The hegemonic educational

During the industrial revolution cheap labor was in high demand. And in order to make money parents were sending their children to work in mines. The work was dangerous and the employers treated the children like slaves. Because of the work they were doing and the hours of the day that it took, the children were not allowed an education. Because of the inequitable economic system, children were forced to work and they weren’t allowed an education. The inequitable economic system puts families in a position where they have to send their young children to go work in dangerous. The children that have to work in mines are not part of the hegemonic norm, so they do not have equal access to education. They can’t get an education as easily as the majority of the people. In the short story Tongue Tied, teacher send home report cards. The report cards of the main characters Vicente Reyes, Mai Lan Phan, and Florante Sanchez all say that the students should stop interacting with the pidgin speaking students. Kathrine Cruz and Edgar Ramirez are the two pidgin speaking students in the school. Because they are in the lower class, the are people not willing to educate them or associate them. In the process of education their special and unique identities are being pushed down and oppressed. The inequitable education system does not insure that these student have a fair and equal shot at education.

The public school funding system in the United States fails to uphold fairness as unequal funding results in an unequal distribution of resources into American classrooms. Local funding mostly consists of the commercial and residential property taxes that the local government collects to fund for the local school district. Therefore, the property wealth of a district often determines the quality of the region’s schools; thus, students who are born into a disadvantage situation don’t have the same equal opportunity to learn as those who are born into affluent families. When I was in elementary school I was on the receiving end of this inequitable system. I was part of this inequitable system, but it was working for my benefit not to my detriment. I live in a relatively wealthy school district, so I was able to get a good education and get into Chadwick in sixth grade. The educational hegemonic norm was the situation I was in, and the system makes it unfair for the people without the same situation as me or a less fortunate