Deviance in its contexts erodes trust. A society that has suspicion and distrust has not the ability to function smoothly. Unpunished deviance, on the other hand may encourage other people to be non conformists. Even though deviance behavior is expensive, it promotes needed social change. The best theory of deviance therefore that the methodology contributes to strain theory of deviance, where it most likely takes place when there is a dispensary between a culturally described goal and legitimate ways of having education. The outcome however, leads other people to engage in deviant behaviors. Teacher tenure refers to the act of assuring the teachers of their jobs. Tenure, as is intended as a due process assurance, a job security check geared to function as a quarantine against administrators unpredictably terminating the task of the teachers and substituting them with friends or family members as a benefit acts as a protection against falsehood levied against such teachers.
Also, rightly used tenure resonates to an environment where the teachers are encouraged to improve their performance in their school duties and .emerge to be better educators. On the other hand, tenure makes it hard to fire a teacher, even if the teacher is underperforming. It is costly to dismiss tenured teachers and,cases of complacency emerge for the tenured teachers.The consequence of teacher tenure is seen in the low performance of the students as the teachers cannot be substituted nor dismissed. The teacher tenure may be regarded in the movie, “Waiting for Superman,” out of 1000 teachers, only one if fired! Guggenheim asserts that it becomes difficult to fire teachers who have been tenured. This is further seen when some teachers, publicly tell the students that they do not intent to teach the students.
The concept of Rist research refers to the perception that the teachers have in regards to the social class of the students which is a predictor of academic success. According to Willis (2010), dialect, grammar, speech influenced the expectations and relations the teachers had and so the students literacy performance. Through observations done the above aspects showed that the students’ socioeconomic class impacted the students’ ability in the infancy stagein education (p. 123). These early opinions as can be interpreted inform on the manner in which the students perceived themselves not to be right in the face of the teachers, and the impact of this is the poor academic performance.On the contrary to these perceptions, we can see from the movie, through Geoffrey Canada’s confidence that a good education is not governed by poverty, parents who are not educated and or involvement or living in the crime and drug prone streets. As a matter of fact, these neighborhoods are the places where Geoffrey attains most of successes.
Hidden curriculum can be explained as messages disseminated by the organization and operation of schooling excluding the official or public announcements of the objective of the school mission and curriculum strategies. Several students act to not accept nor deny the various messages of the school. As a result, they go on with the acknowledgement just to benefit on the good performance without fully comprehending the school’s culture. The value of the hidden curriculum is that it focuses on the elements of schooling which are not often acknowledged and are extensively not studied. Guggenheim dramatizes this concept in an agonizingly direct manner by asserting what is not rightand says what is correct.We further see the movie, that when the students are queried to presume their standing, they do know, but it is the Americans who come forth.
The lottery approach greatly has an impact on the creation of deviance. This arrives in the picture of the differentialassociation theory, which states that the surrounding has a significant role in choosing the customs that individuals learn. The movie demonstrates that employment is not meant for the rich in the society. Rather, the poor in the society can get aqualityeducation,and that low cost is putting into considerations that the number of failurescannot get any form of employment. The lotteries are indeed random, and this is just what the law requires. However, a good number of the winner will be lucky, and half of the losers from the same population will not make be successful.
Gatekeeping is the manner through which information in documents, broadcasting, and the internet is reviewed before distribution. As for a functionalist, the interpretation could be that it is the discarding and shape the pieces of information in a controlled number of messages that people can access on a daily basis. I think gatekeeping has it pros and cons depending on the audience and on the purposes for its dissemination. The children are affected in that they cannot get access to the aggregate information probably because it is not suitable for their age and would corrupt their minds. Some of the barriers to receiving education include poverty, gender (socially constituted roles that a community regards to be suitable for a male or female). Also, insufficient infrastructure in the poor societies prevents learning. Guggenheim based his film on a community that was not well off economically. From the scenes, we see that the other 19 of the 20 go back to their neighborhood schools, which more or less assures they constitute a 50 percent dropouts!
In summary, the film has rightfully and timely been used to show the various challenges that face the education system. However, some students still manage to come out better off than the ones who were lucky. Perceptions, hidden curriculum, and teacher tenure are some of the aspects that result into poor performance among the students.
Works cited
Guggenheim, D. (Director). (2010). Waiting for Superman [Motion Picture].
Willis, A. I. (2012). Reading Comprehension Research and Testing in the U.S.: Undercurrents of Race, Class, and Power in the Struggle for Meaning. Routledge.
