eachers should, in turn, support their students. The above want-list of suggestions for the behavior of teachers and administrators leaves out the student, if not for whom schools would not exist. What does the student deserve to get out of public education? What are schools for? Restated another way, if schools are social agencies for the "inculcation of 'rules' of social life specific to a particular social context" (De Castell 69), what rules are worthy of being passed on to students?
The activity of schooling is related to the social context in which it takes place. Fo
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