Being inclusive is such a vital part of encouraging a healthy and positive learning environment. Teaching should not be run as a dictatorship where the teacher is the only one doing the talking, but the most effective learning happens as a the teacher is also taking input from the students. The idea that students can collaborate not with just each other but with the teacher, not only encourages their confidence, but also allows them to be more vulnerable.

I particularly like how this part of the passage mentions that teaching is a science where only one way to do it is correct. It may be true that there are more effective methods, but overall education should change with current cultures. Not only does it help students understand and grasp concepts better, but it also encourages them to learning more effectively overall.

This brings to light how students that are under privileged simply just do not have as many resources to gain the support they need to succeed. For example, tutors are not easily accessible in lower income areas due to poverty or simply just a lack of tutors in the area. The focus should not be why does being poor have to be correlated to lack of success, rather it should be shifted to focus on why there needs to be an improvement overall with how those less fortunate can be assisted to succeed.

Schools themselves create the idea of inequality because they are so focused on the structure of what the idea of success is and what the reality of success is. There should not be a label on students as failures when they perform poorly on some standardized test because it can just be highlighting the strengths of a student when in reality all people have something they are passionate/talented in. It is not just the result of the students not trying enough, but schools should facilitate an environment where students are being pushed to experience and do well in what they good at.

This is a great assessment to have considering that the public school system is the only system where it invites people from various backgrounds to promote equal opportunity. This being said, not all public schools are made equally which takes that idea of equality away. The idea of economic privilege becomes reinstituted because it isn't a matter of individual against individual, but school as a whole.

Ideally the American Dream is perfect and encapsulates an overarching goal that all people should succeed and have a means to do so. However, the reality is that the lack of equal opportunity serves as a barrier, limiting students from pursuing the path of success. It creates a paradigm where only those who have more fortunate circumstances can succeed and those who don't simply just did not work hard enough. It is unfair and the idea of the American Dream has to change if it wants to be implemented into the school system.

Schools are the forum where almost all people start to conform of this idea where success is valuable. This idea can start from a simple grade scale where an A is desirable while anything else is subpar. While it is true that not every student may think this way, it is important to recognize that the students are being TAUGHT this ideology that there is positivity with success and negativity with failure. Ultimately, regardless of a student's failure or success. schools are meant to uplift the students and help them succeed with their own individual and unique skill set.

This concept of the American Dream is not just an idea that people want to implement into society, but it serves as the goal of what living in America should be. It creates an ideal life that serves both as a goal, but also as a baseline for what is success versus what is not. Furthermore, it does not limit people into conforming into a linear line of success, but success has multiple routes that come from individual concepts of success.