Week #4 A “Good” student

According to the common understanding, a student who maintains a high grade point average pays careful attention in class and works hard on their assignments fits the bill for the descriptor of an “outstanding” student. They will have been provided with a peaceful night’s sleep and nutritious meals from their family. They will have originated from a reliable family that places a high value on education. In addition, they will have had a balanced supper. They will come from a background in which the curriculum’s subject matter has importance and relevance to their day-to-day lives, and this will be the case throughout their educational experience. These children do not face any obstacles in their academic pursuits due to conditions that make it more challenging for them to learn. These students are just your typical “good” student because they don’t have other problems to worry about outside of school.

The traditionalist curriculum was developed to mold students into identical copies of one another so that they would become “functioning” members of society. The traditionalist curriculum was designed with this intention. Education was the means by which assimilation and streamlining were accomplished: It should be no surprise that the primary driving force towards racial integration is the general or public education system. Since its inception, the foundation of our educational system has been the concept that individuals of European ancestry and Anglo-American descent are fundamentally superior. As a result, most successful students were white and either wealthy or from middle-class families. Students who are derived from individuals from that lineage are the only ones who will find the content of the curriculum relevant to them. This is because we live in a once-colonized country, and western ideas are the norm in this society. These students might benefit from a curriculum and assessments developed expressly for them to do well on standardized examinations. Students who performed very well in school often came from families who belonged to the middle class or wealthy families since education in those days was aimed toward those socioeconomic groups.

We have started to move towards a way better and more inclusive schooling system; the problem is that these old racial thoughts are so embedded within our curriculum they still get overlooked and are hard to change and bring to light. But more and more are being brought up, mainly within the past eight-ish, with all the movements and stuff going on in Canada. But going back to the question about a “good” student, according to commonsense, I strongly feel like this narrative still gets pushed to this day when schools are trying to make the kid become “functioning” members of society.