Educational Profiling: Individual Response
Education profiling is a topic that is important to me because I see students being stereotyped in our schools based on the classes they chose. People need to understand that students in regular classes are not necessarily dumb or stupid. Being in a regular or AP class doesn’t define one’s intelligence. This problem exists because society emphasizes the importance of education and a student’s ability to achieve academic success. Society measures a student’s academic success by their ability to get into AP and honors classes. Students themselves get competitive and judge those whose intelligence is not on their level. For example, AP students and honors students might look down on students that are in regular classes because the regular students might not have high grades. Regular students might not like students that are in AP and honors classes because they are overachievers. I believe our news report is an effective way to address the issue. Our news report draws attention to t...