Reading:
“The Imperial University”
Visual Addition:
Reference:
Lerner, J.
(2018, November 06). Equitable Community Engagement Community Meeting [Digital
Blog Entry:
In
this week’s lectures, topics like marginalization, imperialism, misrepresentation,
and militarism were discussed within the education system. The reading ‘The Imperial
University’ discusses these topics as well. It describes how the students who
are marginalized by the corrupt education system are forced to become soldiers and
to fight for their voice. Many examples of student ‘soldiers’ were also
discussed in lecture and how these people were discriminated and labeled as rebellious
for standing up for what is right. I believe that as a society we are concerned
about conforming to societal norms or practices, because doing anything out of
that puts negative labels on ourselves. The image provided shows the different
scenarios of how society treats minorities under different circumstances. The reality
is that major racial groups have higher priority while minority groups are
marginalized. We are forced to conform and bend over backwards toward an
education system that is controlled by corporates of major groups. They want to
assimilate us and for the many the choose to fight against this end up being discriminated
more by the major groups and even by our minority. The education system has
become so corrupt that militarism has become a thing. Students are becoming
soldiers to fight for their basic needs or for liberation out of this corporate
education system. As a result, there have been many peaceful protest that have involved
the police that have ended badly. I believe as a student, the education system
needs to prioritize that the students voice is the most important. We are the
ones who go through the education and personally experience all the good and
bad things of it. But those within the board of education choose to focus on
money. While I understand that money is important for the education system. The
board should strive for a better way of giving their students the best
education possible with the amount of resources they have. I’m asking that
education system to divide the school budget in where ALL areas of the
education system are equally supported and funded.
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