Education in the years 1980-2000 was getting to the place that education is in this day. It was really interesting to read about how the government wanted education to be but how it actually was, was very different from what they wanted or imagined. The government wanted the schools to be geared more towards the vocational side of things. The education system wasn't going to change but no one was really going to do anything about it.
What was really interesting about this part in the book was all the schools that they were forming in Harlem in New York. This school district was one of the lowest scoring in the state. Someone had a great idea of making a whole bunch of different schools within the district. I really liked how they made the different schools and the children were able to choose which schools they went to, they weren't forced to go to a certain school. This made the scores at the schools go up and the district wasn't at the bottom any more. I think that if we were to do something more like this now, children would be more apt to stay in school and actually enjoy going to school.
Sometimes I wonder why our school system is how it is. What would happen if we were to change something and not go with the norm. Would the children in the school systems be more able to succeed? Would children want to go to school and be willing to learn?
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