They Say, I Say Chapter 4 Exercise 1 (Morasa S.)

In the passage by Jean Anyon, it seems as though the author has a combination of both agreeing and disagreeing with the summaries she presents on the issue that public schools in complex industrial societies make available different types of educational experience and curriculum knowledge to students in different social classes at the beginning of the passge. The combination of having both an agreeing and disagreeing stand on the issue was seen when Jean stated that little or no attempt was made in investigating elementary and secondary schools to see if proclaimed acclimations were true or false. Nevertheless, the author seemed to have taken an indirect stand on agreeing that education in public schools seem to be divided based on social classes by presenting an article that supported such an argument. Even though evidence was provided for both sides of the argument, the second piece of supporting evidence was more effective because of the fact that it was placed at the end of the passage. This would leave a lasting effect on the reader because it seems to be more of a closing statement for the overall passage.