Go to school

Eli Pardue
2/20/08
AP Lang Comp
LaMags

To what extent do you agree that we don’t really need to go to school?

I do not at all agree with Gatto. I think that school is on of the most important parts of a child’s social, mental, and physical development. Gatto explains his view through frustration at the school system he worked in. This is not how all school systems work. It is certainly not how University High School works. He does not like the school systems because he believes that they are too government controlled and reliant. I think that this is a valid point, but he does not suggest a way to make the system better.
Schools expose children to other children, which forms social habits that are an absolute necessity in everyday interaction with others. Without social interaction that all children are exposed to in school, everyone may as will portray symptoms of autism due to lack of social development. I think that the education that is provided is also invaluable. Teachers are necessary to fill the minds of the students with information that is relevant to the topic at hand.
Without schools, I think that our society would lose almost all of its organization. Children would not have been exposed to a rigid schedule, and they would not be used to one in the workplace. And in the future, if nobody had any exposure to how work is supposed to be done, how will the work place operate? Society would fall into anarchy without school.