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Fractured Education: The School System’s Prejudiced Social Divide by Quinn


Abstract: Despite all of our advances in ridding ourselves of the injustices that have plagued our nation, a particular example of bigotry has been left to fester. People with special needs have historically been a consistent target for prejudice and oppression; this discrimination has bled out of the history books and into the American school system. To this day, American schools operate under ableism and discrimination, causing incredible social development problems our for students, and continuing to contribute to a bigoted culture. It is imperative to the development of all students that students with special needs are socially included within school culture. School culture unifies a school, it dictates the tones and conditions that a student body will operate under. For students to overcome a culturally instilled attitude of ableism, they must be educated on and exposed to their peers with special needs, specifically in these culture-building events. Inclusion in these events is the first step in breaking through the prejudice that students and their educational system share, exposing the humanity in the students who are treated as less-than, and bringing to light the inhumanity in the ableism that has dictated the lives of so many students with disabilities.


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This summer, we're posting the audio of our Senior Thesis Defenses one at a time, starting with Sarah, who will be arguing that the church needs to be more involved in the foster care system.


"The Fostering of Foster Care Through the Church" by Sarah
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**Abstract: When a child needs help, who do they run to for help? Usually to their parents.
Sometimes it is a friend, but the younger someone is, the more they tend to rely on their
parents. However, children in the foster care system don’t have that option; they don’t
have parents to run to. While the foster system’s intentions of wanting to take children
out of toxic environments and put them into a safer place are genuine, it is also in dire
need of help–of the Christian church’s help. Simply because children are taken out of an
unsafe living environment, that doesn’t mean that the place they are sent to is necessarily
a better place than the previous one. Foster children need a loving home, and Christians
are called to love and help all people as God loved everyone. Even though Christians are
called to help all people, not everyone is able to afford the cost to adopt a foster child
which can range anywhere from $20,000-$65,000 primarily depending on the race of the
child in question. It is for this reason that the church should be financially involved with
the foster care system by raising money through the church or by getting involved with
the expenses. The foster care system needs help, and the Christian church, through the
calling of Christ, is the help that is needed.


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Michael and Tyler discuss a classic piece of literature taught to our 7th graders. They talk about why they teach it, what it means to our curriculum, and gives parents an idea of what they can talk about with their students.


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This week, we sit down for an interview with recent alumni Wyatt Darnell (who also composed the music for this podcast!) to talk about sticking it out through the end of high school at a classical Christian school.


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In this episode, we interview our secondary science teacher about awakening wonder in our students, pursuing the sciences from a Christian worldview, teaching as learning, and employing rhetoric in the science classroom.


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Tyler and Michael reignite the podcast with an eye toward discussing Classical Education's tenets in general, while also talking about the TRA Difference–how do we do Classical Education at The River Academy. Today's episode, in particular, is about Humane Letters, what it is, and our approach to literature, history, worldview, philosophy, and writing in general.


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