Educational Profiling- Individual Paper
As a student that enrolls in some normal courses and have friends from both ESL and regular classes, educational profiling is an important topic to me. I have friends that are considered unintelligent or mediocre because they take regular courses, instead of an AP/honor courses. Furthermore, students are treated in a discriminatory manner by other groups of students and even teachers because of the class that they take. Students that are taking regular classes are considered less intelligent and less capable of learning new things at a faster rate. Thus, they are less likely to be put in complicated courses. Not only do students treating each other differently, teachers and school officials also judge students based on their academic achievements and academic courses. Students that take regular classes are believed to less hardworking and more prone to distractions, as a result, these officials are less likely to put regular students into honors or AP classes. Additionally, some scho...