Blog #2

 Sal Khan-- The Broken Model ARGUMENT

Throughout the selected reading Sal Khan draws a lot of similarities between the current education system and subjugation through suppressing intellectual freedom, woah lotta big words right? Lets break that down! 

    In order for a system with power isolated at the top to remain, it must maintain control of the working and lower classes, known as the proletariat. In America a huge amount of control is in the education system. Although revolutionary at its inception with a goal of sharing knowledge to all growing humans, the American education system has now worked against it main goal and is stuck in this stagnated state. Khan argues school don't teach for expansive thought and growth, rather they teach for route memorization and testing well. In this system no room was made for outlier students, or difference in opinion or interpretation. All learners who cant fit a certain mold are seen as problem children, or they are marked lower than their peers. There is absolutely no room for the individual in the current state of educational policy. IF students were treated and cared for on a case by case bases their personal skills would shine through, however it is so that many learners are told to suppress themselves and deny their intrinsic being. This issue is only exasperated by class, for those wealthy family who can buy out of the the homogeny of the US educational system get their children's needs get meet, and they can churn out free minds unbounded by the current broken model of public schooling. 

    I can really relate to Khans thoughts on oppression through educational policy. It is ultimately out of the educators hand on what the government is telling them to teach, however I have encountered some great policy and expectations as a learner in public schooling. For example at my high school they changed the graduate requirements from a portfolio containing grades, essays, feedback from past classes and morphed the final grad requirement to be a project of your choosing. As a senior you could do anything like learn how to cook a 5 corse meal, plant a fruit tree or produce a song. This allowed the individual to look inwards and inspire passion for topics that layed outside the binary of the current educational system. 

https://www.edweek.org/education/opinion-private-schools-vs-public-schools/2013/10?utm_source=goog&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ew+performance+max+subscription&ccag=subscription&cckw=&cccv=subscription+ad&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=23338998931&gbraid=0AAAAADfp2x31gBAkSby1oWiMPCZVBcbY2&gclid=CjwKCAiAxc_JBhA2EiwAFVs7XEfgcII8z0eSP4R_45_ybbtBziLv5P-QJrIQnxsK7aLxL8rWO66J7BoCc-QQAvD_BwE