What is the commonsense “good” student, the commonsense “good” student is essentially one that follows the rule, or stays on path. If you take Kumashiro’s story about student M for example, he or she was labeled as the “bad” student because he or she did not follow the rules and was a little rouge in a sense. This tends to have much more of a benefit on students who conform to the status quo and typically students who are not of the minority. So students who are not in the minority or students that have learning, physical, behavioral, or cognitive disabilities are the ones who are to be seen as “bad” students. In a historical sense the good student has been shaped by behaviour. If you look at something like the Tyler Rationale that had a goal of efficiency and a focus on hitting an end goal, these principles still apply today. Society wants to create students who are hard working, behave well, and so on. In Painter’s article the emphasis was on creating strong hard working men, who are ready to enter the workforce, this view has not changed much. Education is essentially doing the same thing with the addition of women and not just only men.
You make good points here, and it is well typed out. I believe the ideas need more depth if someone who has never heard of these terms might be confused.
Hey Ethan, I enjoyed reading your response! I think that you selected good examples from the readings to support your response to the questions for this week’s blog post. Your post did seem a bit brief, so I believe that there might be some room for you to include some of your thoughts or personal experiences related to the reading materials. Overall, I think your blog post this week was wonderful, and I’m looking forward to reading your future postings.
Hey Ethan,
I love your post and the status quo comment; I think that only relying on students that can follow the line put ahead of them would never help contribute tot he moving on/ future of society. If we never had people step out of line, we would still be stuck in the old ways of life when only certain people that looked a very specific way could even have access to education.
Thanks.
I liked how you talked about the ‘status quo’ and not being a minority can help you be considered a good student. I might have gone a little more in depth about how one can be a ‘good’ student. It was quite insightful how you talked about education as basically the same just allowing women now.