Summary Of American Promise

In the documentary titled, American Promise, Joe Brewster and Michele Stephenson took on the dual role as both filmmakers and parents as they record their son, Idris, and his best friend, Suen, attend one of the most prestigious private schools New York has to offer. As Brooklyn natives, Idris and Seun’s parents desired the best education for their sons’ due to their exceptional academic achievements made in public schools. Dalton was the answer as it strived to offer a profound educational process that would propel these young adolescents into professional adults abundant with knowledge. This journey spanned over the course of thirteen years, in attempt to capture Idris and Seun fundamentally develop not only as a son, kid, or student, but
In retaliation, once Idris parents started witnessing a steep drop in grades from such an overachiever son, Idris, they immediately halted all extracurricular activities in hope that their son will in fact raise up his grades. However, after countless nights and hours on end of studying with Idris, motivating him throughout his middle school to high school career, they too realized that the educational system was declining their child to succeed academically. There was an absence of opportunity for this young African American male, as well as Seun because the educational system was directly correlated at Dalton to only encounter Caucasian children to succeed. This bias system that was destined and ensued by parents ultimately failed as there was a lack of initiative to motivate Seun and Idris due to their social class and background. For instance, Seun and Idris were one of the only African American children to attend Dalton middle school at the time and were given letters by the teacher to notify their parents that they have verbally and physically harmed other students. Nevertheless, this was not the scenario what so ever as Seun and Idris were targeted simply due to their
I personally believed Peterson was trying to attempt to make a connection to common sense items or objects Idris encountered as a child. When Stephenson used these simple phrases, she was promoting the effort to learn and ensue an accomplishment when Idris tried to communicate. For instance, E. D. Hirsch initiated the educational discussion of cultural literacy in the 1980s pointing to the value of a person’s background knowledge and the personal vocabulary that person possesses as an expression of personal knowledge (Hirsch, 1987). Hirsch was trying to stress learning is a valuable tool when obtained through real life experiences, rather than intense mental instruction that forcibly questions whether or not a child will pass or fail. This was apparent when Idris was later at Dalton and there was no stress on meaningful information that a child will intend to purposely remember due to their experience. Based upon cultural aspects, Idris strived to acquire the next word of the day because he was going to receive the reward of having his mother smile and congratulate him on his intelligence. Many of today’s families face significant financial problems as a result of the current crisis in the economy. Following our discussion of economic conditions, we turn our attention to evidence for the association between socioeconomic status satisfaction and stability in adult romantic relationships, the quality