I thought it was interesting how all the extracurricular activities came to be. In the book it says that “what we wish the state should be the school must be.” Extracurricular activities were brought about as a sense of unity and to provide the students with leisure and socialization. It’s funny that now, extracurricular/after-school activities are the first ones to be cut. In high school, I played softball and our team was the best in our division and we took it all the way to the playoffs. However, after I graduated in 2006, our funds got cut and our team dwindled. Even when I was on the team, my coach paid out of pocket to take us on trips to the batting cages and the team members did bake sales and also paid for their uniforms themselves. If this is how the school is, what does this say about our state?
This chapter also brings up equal opportunity. Nowadays, we see the term used in everything we need to apply for: schools, jobs, even credit cards. However, are opportunities ever really equal? No matter what, someone out there is going to be either better or worse than you, resulting in everyone having different chances of being hired or picked. Why is this term still used today if we know it’s nonexistent?
