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In David Warlicks “Education Reform is Re-establishing, Redefining and Retooling”, is a story about how kids are being taught as an assembly line. David says he takes a break away from school one year and works in a factory and his job was to measure each part to make sure each was the same size and worked the same. When he does this he realizes kids are beaing taught this way. He states kids are treated as raw materials and just graduates of a finished product. Also, children are run through assembly lines being installed with reading, math and science skills just under the theme of a “Race to the Top” attitude of the schools. This affects me because this makes me think that my school is just making me learn and do well just to make the school look better and not actually make my future look better. It makes me think schools are just selfish and corrupt. However, I do believe the majority do plan to help the students to a brighter future than make themselves look better. This affects the world because if you do attend a corrupt school then you do not have to learn and get good grades to make your school better but do it for yourself and make you look better. So I ask, are the schools just selfish and corrupt or do you think they are here for the better good?