Part 2 - 1900-1950: As American as Public School
A sentence that stuck out to me was “The critics complained that the life adjusters had watered down the curriculum for all students, not just the laggard few.” Page 69 In this excerpt, the critics of the ‘life adjustment education program’ expressed their dislike for the program and how it’s negatively impacting the students. The reason I chose this part from the text is that I personally noticed this happening in schools I had attended in the past, mainly in middle school and high school. I attended a bilingual school, where we received an education on par with that of a public school, but we just added the second language class as an essential course just like English literature. Over the years, the curriculum for this class became easier/simpler. The reasoning behind it was because they believed students wouldn’t really need to learn this language as intricately or fully and that the basics would need to be enough. Also because the students just did...