Question to my Colleagues & others:

If Parents and Teachers work together, will this benefit Students?

My opinion on this question is... of course it will! Majority of students spend their time in school and at home. Teachers and Parents working together will help students by having support at both locations; school and home. It is the teachers responsibility to teach and help their students at their school's location; however, students are not the teachers responsibility at the student's home location. It is the parents or guardian responsibility to guide their children to learn at home. Having the parents and teachers working together with getting involve, will keep the students interested in what they are doing.

No matter what subject that is going on in the classroom, parents should be involve with their children studies. Some parents worry about "oh no, calculus! I can't help you with that". Because the subject is something that the parents don't know, does not mean they can't help. I do understand it is sometimes hard for some parents. For instance, some parents do not speak English. And sometimes parents have to work all the time to pay bills. Parents can seek out different sources; is if it is another literature of the subject or an experience person in that field of study.

-Kristina

Essay on Parker's article "Teaching Against Idiocy"

A question that my colleagues and I thought about from Tyak reading was "who is 'uneducated'?What does it mean to be uneducated?What does it mean to be educated?" To be uneducated means to be not taught, tutored, or cultivated. Around the world every society has different morals and rules on what they think is important. These societies and government teach their people qualities and give information that they think would educate them to survive in their culture and life. Some people can be uneducated by not wanting to be taught. These people become ethnocentric and isolated from their culture. In Parker's article, "Teaching Against Idiocy", he states, "Idiocy shares which idiom and idiosyncratic the root idios, which means private, separate, self-centered- selfish (Pg. 1)".

Parker also states that "we have a powerful opposition: the private individual versus the public citizen (Pg. 1)". Parker explains in this quote that people in different societies have to choose to be ethnocentric or to be an educated citizen. Being ethnocentric individual means to learn and do things their own way of being taught. To be an educated citizen is to learn what the government wants to teach you in order to survive in their world of living. A person who chooses to be "the private individual (Parker, Pg. 1)" becomes to be an uneducated person to their society. And "the public citizen (Parker, Pg. 1)" becomes to be the educated person.

To answer the questions, who is 'uneducated'? What does it mean to be uneducated? what does it mean to be educated?, we must look at first what the society and government wants from their citizens. It is the society and government that chooses to decide who is uneducated or educated. I believe that no one is uneducated because everyone learn new things each and everyday. For example, infants and people with disabilities are educated because they learn everyday. Everyone is educated on different levels, but we all are uniquely educated in our own way.

-Kristina