Rodriguez vs. Anyon

Rodriguez vs. Anyon
Society portrays social classes and social separation in school as having a great effect upon the outcome of the students in their specific social classes. Working-class schools are at a major disadvantage when it comes to the job outcome of these students. Jean Anyon, chairperson of the Department of Education at Rutgers University and author of “From Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work,” strongly believes that students are being prepared to occupy jobs that are predetermined according to their social class. For example, Anyon suggests that working-class students are being taught in a manner that only allows them to acquire jobs among the working-class. Richard Rodriguez, author of “Achievement of Desire,” was a student of the working-class that went beyond Anyon’s proposed fate and obtained a higher-level job. Rodriguez is an exception to Anyon’s belief, which poses that Anyon’s studies are too general and not completely correct...