Pablo Arellano English 1102 Mrs.

Steele February 10, 2013 Schooling should not be required Should schools be required for everyone and are they designed to meet the learning standards of every different student? The schooling system seems to be designed to teach every student the same way and at the same pace. By the way the schooling system works it can also be observed that it is killing the originality of students. As John Taylor Gatto says our education system is not letting kids grow up in his article he also says how We have been taught in this country to think of success as synonymous with or at least dependent upon schooling. I agree with this quote from John Taylor because this is something I see repeatedly happening and believe that if schools allowed students to grow up they would not have to depend solely on education to succeed and would find other ways. When reading this in his article I also got many ideas of how from very early on we are all repeatedly told how the only way we will ever be successful is if we go to college and learn, but we can see how many years ago people did not have to go to school for five days a week for thirteen years and yet there were brilliant people who out of their own will learned and invented magnificent things that we still use in our lifes today. As I do believe school is a very important I also believe it is not for everyone as many people do not like going to class and have no motivation to learn.

In our education system we can also see how it is designed to prepare every student to go to college but not every student has the desire to continue their education beyond high school. As not every student wants to go to college, High Schools should focus further in preparing these students for life outside of school and the things they will face after graduating while preparing those students who will go to college, for their classes they would have to take in college. In John Gattos text of Against School he says School trains children to be employees and consumers which I strongly agree to as I have noticed how from very early in elementary school we are already being taught and asked what we would like to be when we grow up and in math we are taught with examples of buying things and selling which relates directly to what Gatto is explaining in his quote. In the text Intertextuality and the discourse community I also gathered many ideas from it and agreed with the author James Porter as he talked about how many of the newer texts are not very original and new ideas are rarely seen as authors now gather and use ideas and information from other authors texts to create their writings. As I can see this in the writings from Gatto and Mike Rose as they both share some of the same ideas and both support the ideas of school being the only way to success and student are told repeatedly told they must go to college.

Works Cited Gatto, John. Against Schooling. Harpers Magazine June 2009. Web. 12 February 2013. Porter, James E. Intertextuality and the Discourse Community. Rhetoric Review 5.1 (1986): 34-37. Print. Rose, Mike. I just wanna be average. Lives on the Boundary. New York: Free Press, 1989. Print.