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Divvy Group Map: School Class and School Knowledge (23-39) (Executive…

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        "Working-Class schools: The majority of the students' fathers (and approximately one-third of their mother) were in unskilled or semiskilled occupations, with somewhat less than one-third of the fathers being skilled workers. Most family money income were at or below $12,000 during the period of the study, as were 38.6% of all U.S families (U.S. Bureau of the of the Census 1979, p.2, Table A)" (Anyon 1981 p.5)
        
        Working class schools:
        
        a) “Just do your best. If they learn to add and subtract, that’s a bonus. If not, don’t worry about it,” states the principal. (Anyon, 1981, p.7)
        
        b) "What these children need is the basics. " When I asked her what the basics were, she said, "The three Rs-simple skills. " When I asked why, she responded, "They're lazy. I hate to categorize them, but they're lazy."(Anyon, 1981, p. 7)
        
        c) “It should be noted that during discussions of school knowledge not a single child in either working-class school used words such as "think, " or "thinking. " Most spoke in terms of behaviors or skills, and only one mentioned the word " mind." (Anyon, 1981, p. 10)
        
        d) “She said she didn't have time. She said that she has "enough to do to get them to understand the generalizations." (Anyon, 1981, p.15)
        
        Children of low-income families show have negative ideas toward high-income families
        
        "Almost half of the children (8 of 20) expressed, in interviews, an attitude of antagonism to 'the rich' (pg.22)
        
        Teachers insulting their students' intelligence and capability to understand knowledge
        
        "One male teacher characterized his school as a 'tough' school and said he had been nervous when they told him he would be teaching there. He said he felt better after the principal had told him, 'just do your best. If they learn to add and subtract, that's a bonus.If not, dont worry about it'" (p.7)
        
        "Another second teacher said that the children in her school were getting 'dumber' as the years went by." (pg. 7)
        
        "A fifth-grade teacher in the other school said she did social studies by putting notes on the board, which the children then copied.I asked why she did that, and she said "Because the children in this school don't know anything about the U.S., so you can't teach them much."
        
        Student's of high-income families have no idea what they want their future to be
        
        "Many of these children of affluent professionals are not at all sure they can be anything they want when they grow up, and their futures seem less than certain to them." (pgs. 22-23)