The Story of School, episode #4

This episode was the least interesting for me. I think this was because I lived through the majority of the years this film covered. It was, however, fairly interesting to see why practices, such as standardized testing or choice in schools, came into effect. Those are things that have effected my educational experience and this video gave me some insight to why they began. It is also interesting to see the views of different presidents from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush. Each had different views on education and believed education was important, but often for the wrong reasons. There was one part of the video that made me chuckle (okay, there were multiple parts of the video, i.e., clothing worn, hair styles, etc.). It was the part about channel 1 television and I laughed because when I was in high school, if you arrived early for school that t.v. show would be playing on most of the televisions in the school. We never watched it. What a silly idea. Last note, I wish they had made a episode #5 which predicted the future of "The Story of School."