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Does white middle class elitistism drive attitudes of how education should be conducted?

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It is my firm belief that those who argue certain things shouldn't be taught in schools (like religion, or evolution) are propagating a commonly held position by white middle class Americans, and their true intention is to limit or eliminate access of reliable education to poor Americans. Evolution should be taught in schools, and the religious objections of evolution should also be taught, and why there is controversy over this issue in the first place should be taught.

 The argument that schools are not supposed to be teaching certain things (like morality or politics) is a moot point and asinine because nowhere is it written in stone that schools should be disallowed from teaching anything and everything, especially since we are the taxpayers who pay for the funding of educational institutions. Therefore it is sheer idiocy to expect that we should not be allowed to be taught properly by an education system that we ourselves have funded.

Perhaps at the core of these bourgeois attitudes about education is the belief that we should only be taught in accordance to our socioeconomic status and not for enlightenment. There is a belief that we should only be taught "practical" principals and ideas in relation to our socioeconomic status (rank and file), and we should not be taught for the purpose of becoming smarter than we need to be for our "intended purpose" in society.  The argument that we are the taxpayers who fund our schools also cuts through that meritocratic ideal of education because it is us who are paying for our education so it is nothing short of criminal stupidity to expect us to pay for an education that we have no say in what is taught to us, and how it is taught.The best way to ruin an educational system is to introduce the bourgeois attitudes of "meritocracy" to crush the idea of enlightenment.         



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