1. School as salvation - what can schools realistically do to address the systematic problems of inequality, anti-intellectualism, and meaninglessness in our society? (Savior Teacher Films, Obama speech, Sizer, Freire, Hirsch, Delpit, interviews, own thoughts
In my opinion schools don't explore much further options for uniting educational groups within schools. There's only two kinds of everything, the smart and the dumb, the good and the bad, than the cool and the uncool. No matter the curriculum and appropriate programs that can benefit multi-groups of students, high school will always be high school. Those options that are "explored" are usually only for targeted people. Even if they go along with a plan for students and upraising their academics they still only get through to a small percentage of students.
Those savior teacher films are a little over-dramatic. Not every single student will have problems that are life-threatening. And those who even do, teachers will not address those problems as if they're separate life outside the school ill interfere with his teaching. Absences will never be solved due to one teacher, and kids will always be kids.
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