Response to the Public Education Primer

I found this reading to be very interesting. I have always attended private and catholic schools so I never really knew how the public education system worked. This article helped me to understand what the public education system is about and how it works hand in hand with the town and its district. This isn't completely different from the way the catholic school system works, the school is affiliated with a church and the church with a diocese and the money given by the church community helps to fund the school along with the tuition that the students pay. The two school systems are similar in that they both answer to higher powers and all things that the schools get and all things that the schools offer depend on how much money the school's parish or district has. So in any case the the richer the school's community the better the school's attractions. I was also surprised to see that students attending private schools only make up 12% of students as opposed to the 88% of the students educated in public schools. I thought that the number a students in private schools was much higher. Overall this article was very informative and helped me to understand the public school system and opened me to thinking about the kind of students I would be teaching and their varying cultures that would be thrown at me depending on which district I would be teaching in.Overall interesting and quite informative. I'm looking forward to this class this semester and I really am looking forward to the field experience at the Newark Arts school!