Schools

The living theory institution I will be writing about will be schools. My relationship with school is obvious because like you I have spent way too much of my youth locked up learning about things I soon forgot. In addition to that I worked at an elementary school inside a special education classroom as an aid for two years. I also have a sister that is a elementary school teacher with Teach for America in Las Vegas, so I could easily direct any question I have about schools to her. This institution would be a category in itself, the only larger category I could put it in would be the State/government. As for a social rule at work in schools would be the expectation of one to go to school. How often do you come across someone (at least near our age) that just didn’t attend school; it seems that there is a pretty big social rule that you have to go to school. The division of labor is schools is very apparent, you have the secretaries, principals and others that take care of administrative tasks. Then you have the teachers who actually do the teaching and then you have janitors and groundskeepers that kept everything up to snuff. I’m Not exactly sure how Marx would view School’s division of labor, there are gradation of “classes” but, not in the sense Marx meant. You could consider all the employees of the school proletariat because it is not run by a profit making person of organization. Because of this I would assume Marx would be happy U.S. schools. On the other hand, there still clear division of labor which, I don’t see a remedy to. For a government to run a school there must be some bureaucratic/ administrative workers to take care of all the paper work in order for the teachers to teach and not worry about the bureaucratic mess.