Components of the Educational System

The process of education, then, is the process of socialization. The school socializes students in order that society perpetuate itself according to a common base of accepted rules, and it is the job of education to impart such rules. As De Castell observes, "The school instills in students a knowledge of, and respect for, established authority structures" (70). Teachers are presumably socialized to relate (and submit appropriately to) administrators, and, further down in the hierarchy, students are expected to acquiesce to the guiding hands of their teachers.

In effect, such boundaries of authority are tentative at best. Students challenge their teachers daily, and administrators wrestle with teachers' demands for time, money, or power. Students have a right to a public education, and teachers have the right to teach indefinitely, given that they have sufficient tenure. Administrators (somewhat hypocritically) challenge teachers over the issues of time, money, and power, but inh

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hey do attend classes, they can choose not to participate. Many students choose school for socializing--not a bad end in itself, if they are off the streets during the hours that their parents are pursuing a two-parent income. The fact that many students do not attend school, or drop out early, should alert teachers and educators that school has no valuable place for many underprivileged students. The students, as future workers, "see that the chance of their getting enough education to make their attainment of . . . rewards in the future is very slight" (Becker 108). According to Becker, these students will not do school work just to please their teachers. "Since they can win the rewards of prestige and social acceptance in their own slum groups without much education, they do not take very seriously the motivation taught by the school" (108). Students who do not perform up to societal expectations may "socialize" their teachers into expecting less and less of them. As Becker elaborates, "less is expected of those teachers whose students are more difficult to teach . . . the problem becomes more aggravated in each grade, as the gap between what the children should know and what they actually do know becomes wider and wider"
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