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What is the Purpose of School?

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To me I feel like school is meant to teach you the things, you wouldn't learn if you were out of school. According to the "Education in Society" Crash course, they define education as the institution through which society provides it's members with all kinds of important knowledge. Students go to school to gain the knowledge they need in order to succeed in life outside of school, they learn things like how to calculate totals, count money, read, and fun facts like the history of building they will visit. Without an education it would be a lot harder to go through the world, because you wouldn't have the most important skill to know, when it comes to making decisions, which is critical thinking.  Marginalized students, are students who who come from poverty, abusive households, etc. Most of these students may have a hard time in school, because of what they have going on at home, so it's really helpful when they have a good support system at their schools to h...

Why Teach?

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 As a kid I remember being in my room with my stuffed animals and a cardboard box that I taped white paper on, to make it into a whiteboard. With that board, I would play ""teacher" and teach them addition, subtraction, basically stuff that I knew from school at the time. I remember as I was playing this game, I was trying to play as my teacher that I had at the time which was Ms. Sphone (Can't quite remember the spelling, but it's pronounced 'spone'). As time went on, around late middle school, early high school I began to babysit for many of my mom's friends and grew a passion for kids because of how much fun I would have babysitting. As I got older I had a Theatre teacher in high school who inspired me to actually apply for a school for education, because she was so passionate with her students and always came to class with energy that always made you excited to be there, I was able to take that and spread it to my kiddos at the after school progra...