Gatto's Educational View

             Three men, Gatto, Rose, French Commission three different ideas but yet we still can find something in common. All of the ideas relate to education and how the system works. One says the other is right and the other says the other two are wrong. Who is right and who is wrong? After reading these three essays I believe that all of the men are right about something different. Some of their ideas such as: class position, standards of students and teachers are found in today's educational system.
             Gatto is the man that recognizes what is taught to the students and how he enforces his teachings. The first thing that appears in today's educational system would be class position. This is the first thing because the schools start it off as soon as the students walk through the door. Class position plays a major role in each essay. At the beginning of Rose's essay it is easy to spot class position. "The other Rose apparently didn't do very well, for I was in the vocational track, a euphemism for the "bottom" level (Rose, 175)." This shows class position by the word bottom. If you have a bottom you must have a top, which in means that Rose was on the bottom of the educational system and not at the top. This is present in today's system in many different places. At first it starts when the students are barely in the first grade when the teachers give out reading tests to see what reading group students are in. As you go through the system every year you get placed in the sam!
             e spot time after time. Even if you work hard at something the next year when you take the test you will again be put at the bottom level again. An example of this is in junior high or high school if you start at the bottom level you can only move up to the next math class but it is still the bottom level.
             In the French Commission the class position is highly noticeable.
             "In denominational schools the distinct...

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