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Percy V Rodriguez. Percy v Rodriguez At the beginning of the year, students
enter the AP classroom ready to learn. The teacher starts ...
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Percy v Rodriguez
At the beginning of the year, students enter the AP classroom ready to learn. The teacher starts off by telling the students that they will have a tremendous amount of homework, usually around one and a half to two hours worth, every night. Some students will get excited because they want to learn and with two hours of homework every night, how could they not be getting tons of information. However, the problem is, in AP classes, all students are getting is information but they are not taught how to use the information. The whole class is geared towards the final AP exam at the end of the year. This will tell the students how many facts they have remembered from that year and that is all. AP classes are the worst classes a high school student can take for an education. AP classes do not give the students an opportunity to be sovereign knowers and they encourage scholarship boy-type students.
Because AP classes require so much homework, the only information the student is getting is the information provided by the instructor. For most AP classes, homework takes about an hour, maybe two to complete. Most students in an AP class are in at least two AP classes, which means that these students have a lot of homework. Because students have so much homework, they do not have time for anything else but what is assigned. They cannot ask questions for themselves and put things together because students struggle just to get the nightly homework done. This makes it impossible for a student in AP to be sovereign over their education. Since the student has no time for anything but the given assignment, the student is receiving only what the instructor gives them. To Percy, these students are called “consumers” because the students are receiving a package: the information the teacher gives them. “The pupil at Scarsdale High sees himself placed as a consumer receiving an experience-package” (Percy). Consumers...
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