A Response to John Gatto’s Article Essay

In an article written by John Gatto, who is a very good teacher as prove by his numerous awards received, it seems that he is no longer an adherent of a curriculum of contemporary education. It seems that he is a bit late in knowing that he, as a teacher, is a slave of this kind of system. For more than two decades and a half, he never refuses to be part of it. why a sudden change?As for my personal opinion, I am certainly agreed with the current type of contemporary education designed for kids learning at certain level scarcely I hope that it would not be misunderstood with my position about(predicate) the article of John Gatto because I am really opposed in his idea. I am not a believer of John Gattos description about the said scheme, because I guess, he made such exaggerated illustration of core curriculum according to his belief but and is not proper to just be put in habitual situation.If, for any reason that John Gattos description is true, perhaps that simply exists i n his area of jurisdiction and is therefore an isolated case. To further cond unity my viewpoint, let me discuss and elaborate it. What is a teachers grapheme anyway? Ever since formal schooling is born, which says by John Gatto that the draft of school procedure is from an Egyptian custom and that only brought in US trough Puritans, the teacher, or rabbi in their term, has the several roles.Firstly, a teacher is the one who educates students any lessons, in accordance to what they need to learn. Of course they know that a grade school kid does not need to learn at early age some subjects like accounting, trigonometry or geophysical science because those types of subjects are much more complex social occasions that young minds would not meet whether these kids are normal kids or gifted, and this will only be reassert by a licensed teacher. Hence, it is but a right thing to call a teacher an educator.The second role of a teacher could be viewed as equal as parents role. Since kids legislate most of the time of their growing years at school than at home, the teacher has all the responsibility in disciplining these kids especially when troubled with heavy(a) manners and behavior. Disciplining kids that are not biologically them would never be an flaccid task that only good teacher can do. instructors mold these kids and desexualize them to become a well-disciplined and well-behaved citizen of the country.To end this essay, I want to emphasise my position of disagreeing with John Gattos viewpoint and to once again receive an appeal to the public, to every public school teacher, and especially to John Gatto himself to get word the disadvantages and advantages of teaching within the standardization scheme set by the norm and traditional custom, to realize that teaching is not just a written report for a living. Teaching is, and will always be, a noble transaction R E F E R E N C E Gatto, J. T. (1991, July 25). I May Be A Teacher But I am Not An Educ ator. The Wall Street Journal.