Thinking about education: freewrite response to Anyon

An experience that I had that reflects on Anyon's observations is that I relate to the middle-class that she describes in her article. I agree with what she is saying there because in my middle school and in my high school in order for the students to get a good grade and pass the class, we had to get correct answers on the test or homework. "Answers are usually words, sentences, numbers, or facts and dates; one writes them on paper, and one should be neat. Answers must be written in the right order, and one cannot make them up" (Anyon 180). I relate to this quote that she has in her article because I feel that in my previous schools we had to have correct answers that were from the "standard" book. In mathematics class the answer was a number. In a social studies class the answer was a date. In language arts/ english, the answer was a sentence or a correct word.

What surprised me the most about Anyon's study was that there is social class in education as well. For example how the schools are categorized by how wealthy or how poor they are. I think that the schools are only different because of the resources that one has. For example, the "working class" school will not have the same resource that the executive elite school has. You determine in what school you fall into by the place you live in. For example, you'll have the opportunity to go to a executive elite school if you live in a wealthy neighborhood. In order to live in that wealthy neighborhood you'll need to have plenty of money to afford buying a house there. Therefore, you cannot go to a "wealthy" school with a lot more resources than others. So that's why there is categories such as working class, middle class and so on. That's something that really surprised me that there is social class in education and it affects many students like us.