Her point is : If You Send Your Kid to a Private School, You are a Bad Person

Allison Benedikt is not directly involved in the education as a professional, however she is an opinionated person who experienced public school first hand for over 12 years. With that said Allison argues that people should avoid sending their children to private schools because they are not truly helping out the rest of society. Sending a child to a private school is not benefit those that are in a public one. She insists that if more parents, if not all send their child to a public school, the education at those schools would eventually progress. This is obviously not a task that can be resolved with just a few years. She claims that their must be some educational sacrifices to some children in order to benefit the larger group. She strongly believes that public schools can become better education based and less under resourced if parents wouldn't choose private schools over public ones. Allison Benedikt emphasizes that only bad people send their kids to private schools and that those parents are not looking into the common good of every child's education, simply their own. Her experience at a "terrible" public education has fueled her desire to better public schools. Her viewpoint is that if parents should put their time and effort into bettering public schools by registering their children in them. She also insists that public schools more realistic in that they truly prepare kids for the outside world. Reading intense literature in the ninth grade is not as effective as getting drunk before basketball games for a real outlook on life. The rich population should choose public schools to financially advance them and make it a better institution for the children to come. To Allison, it is a community responsibility to better education by having their children be a part of the transition to a better system.








http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2013/08/private_school_vs_public_school_only_bad_people_send_their_kids_to_private.html

Social media: Causing Isolation?

Social Networking sites have increased dramatically in popularity over the past 5 years. In the article titled Does Social Media cause A More Isolated Society, Yukio Strachan writes about Sherry Turkle's viewpoint on the subject and her personal viewpoint about it as well. According to Sherry Turkle, social media sites have cause our society to become more isolated. She sees social media as something that changes who we are as well as what we do. In her opinion, we are learning and getting used to "being alone together." While Yukio Strachan agrees with Sherry Turkle, she also believes that social media is not the cause of isolation, just a contributing factor. In my opinion, social media has caused our society to be more isolated and dependent on social media sites. Sherry Turkle noted that people are expecting less from each other an "friending" someone on Facebook or another social networking site allows for people to create emotional distance and diminishing face to face interactions. Yukio Strachan believes that the isolation has always existed in our society and that social media is simply bringing the issue to light. However, I think that the new technology is what created isolation to be an actual issue. In "the good old days" people picked up a telephone and called (not text) the person they wanted to talk to. At the dinner table, families would interact and talk to each other. Now, people are emailing or texting during dinner. Even though we are "more connected" we are not actually; which is what Sherry Turkle talks about in her book titled “Alone Together: Why we expect more from technology and less from each other.”  While I do agree that this problem of isolation isn't something that started with technology, I do believe that it has increased because of it. I don't feel like isolation was an actual problem before all of this social media came out.




http://digitaljournal.com/article/322982

Visual for Higher Education

Makes Sense

The reading titled A Lifetime of Student Debt? Not likely was an interesting reading that changed my perspective on what I thought I knew or expected about college debt. All I ever hear about regarding this topic is how much people owe after they graduate and how much debt people find themselves in once they have their degree. However, this reading had an abundance of logic and factual statements that made sense. The higher the education the more expensive. The lower the income the more money borrowed. While there are many situations in which the college student is left with an overbearing financial crisis, it is not truely a common situation. I think that we have had this picture painted for us by the media and some unfortunate students about the cost of education. Like a lot of topics this day in age, this has been blown out of proportion. When the reading really starts to make even more sense to me is when it mentioned the logic behind having a larger debt if you are becoming something that requires more education. It only makes sense that doctor has more financial debt graduating college than a medical assistant or physical therapist. With that said, their are of course real situations in which students are completely submerged in debt. This reading goes an extra step to outline why that may be because it isn't necessarily a fault in the education system. There are many factors that go into play and like I said before, every student is a different situation. Some students overborrow both unconciously and conciously. In all reality, some students really don't have a choice but to have debt due to family situations or finanical situations from the very start. In my opinion, the amount of college debt you find yourself in pays off with the better job you get. If borrowed responsibly and logically, I would think that the job or postion you achieve after college would provide a suitable income. Suitable enough to pay off what you owe on a monthly or weekely basis. With everything in life, there are expections and some horror stories are actual true. However, it is not as common as people think. I am pursuing a nursing degree, Masters in Psychatic Nursing to be exact and I am already aware that I have to borrow a large amount of money. In the end though, I will be making at least $35/hour starting rate. I would hope that I would be able to pay off my debt. Nothing in life is free , especially not an education that guarantees a higher paying job. To many students that debt even at large is nothing compared to thier accomplished dream or aspirations.