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Jigsaw: Anyon: Different Schooling for Different Students (FINAL REVISIONS)

- - - - Working-class school
      - "In the fifth grades there was both active and passive resistance to teachers' attempts to impose the curriculum" (Anyon, 1981, p.11)
      - This might have to do with the fact that teachers try and use more "physical control" rather than try and understand the students thoughts and feelings. Anyon points this out later in the article.
    - - Affluent School
      - Refers to extreme individualism
    - - Middle-class school
      - "school knowledge has real value, if one has 'enough' of it" (Anyon, 1981, p. 17).
      - I think that this is from the section that I didn't read, because I don't understand what they mean by possibility. I would like to think that it means middle or lower class students have the possibility to get just as far as elite school students. But I wish they would have gone into slightly more detail.
- - - - A majority of the teachers in the school are from middleclass or upper-middle-class backgrounds; most are from various parts of the state. All but three are female; most of these are married to professionals or men in business; for example, one fifth-grade teacher was married to a stockbroker, another to a lawyer; one second-grade teacher was married to an "accountant with an M.A. in business," the other to a psychologist.
      - I have to wonder what these similar backgrounds say to the students. Younger students might see this as a "you should probably find someone to marry that can make the most money". but that's not how it should be. Plus a diverse group of teachers would be better for the diversity of students than teachers who are almost identical to each other culturally and background-wise.
- - - - One teacher said is "what these children need is the basics"
        
        This teacher also refereed to the kids as lazy.
        
        Every teacher thinks that students need to learn the basics. But every time a teacher does that, the students are just relearning a concept taught to them a year before. Eventually students will stop caring and no longer try in that subject. So when they don't try they seem lazy, but they're actually just tired of hearing the same concept over and over again. The way this teacher thinks makes me kind of upset.
    - - When asking the children, the responses mostly revolved around " What?" or "What do you mean?"
      - When asking the students of what they think of when hearing the words " what is knowledge", most of the responses revolved around something like " it is the skill to do the work,' " worksheets" and " to know stuff."
      - When I was reading this part of the article, it sounded like the students were just telling Anyon and the teachers what they wanted to hear. They weren't thinking about the real answer, they knew that if they said what the listener wanted to hear, then they would be told they were correct rather than face hearing that they are incorrect.
- - - - Knowledge is obtained through the textbooks.
    - - Students thought success was determined by how successful you are and how good you are at school.
- - - - I think this is smart for schools to do because it encourages students to answer and not be scared of being wrong.