School Unit: First Assignment

Part A:
Interesting aspects:
Grading
Relationships
Digitalization
Fashion
Popularity
Friendships
Interactions between the different social classes
Roles people play
Elevators (lack of senior privileges once you have become a senior)


Ideas:
1.) The roles some people play in school differ from the roles they play at home and other places

2.) Once you become a senior all the things you expect to change or to feel seem anticlimactic. You assume things are going to be great but they aren't.

3.) School is just a way to
a: train kids to fallow rules
b: teach kids get used to the hierarchy of society
c: keep kids set on auto-pilot

Part B
School keeps kids set on autopilot. In an automatic state so they won't have to think about real things. They are in a closed environment for a majority of their days and doing repetitive things so they are just reacting rather than processing things and coming to their own conclusions. Being in school keeps kids sheltered and unaware.

This prepares us for being unaware adults. School teaches us habits that we will carry into our adult lives subconsciously. If we are trained to think a certain way or to react to certain situations in a specific way then we will relate that to similar situations and try to handle them in the same sort of way. If we are trained to look for one solution to a problem, we will take that mentality into adulthood.