Civil discourse can be good or bad in America. If people understand some basic guidelines, civil discourse can be a good thing. If people show respect for others, speak as you would like to be spoken to, agree to listen, speak for yourself, not others, civil discourse can be wonderful because people can disagree, but get along doing it. It is when people do not respect these guidelines, and strays away from them when civil discourse turns into a bad thing. Once these guidelines are ignored people begin to lose respect for each other and things like war or fights can happen.

In my opinion, education and schooling are similar but not the same. Education is what you make of it. Someone can go to school all of their life and not learn anythin

In chapter one of the Fred Shultz book, it discusses Horace’s Hope: What works for the American High School. “The selection outlines the debate on school reform and the renewed dialogue on how to improve the public schools” (Shultz 3). Sizer argues that public schools should be funded at the state level, not at the local level so that funding can be equal for all students. This would allow poor communities to receive the same amount of money as the rich communities would receive to educate their children. This would allow every student to receive an excellent education. “Horace Smith is part of a grass-roots movement for reform, one given increasing running room by the very public authorities who now so assaulted with criticism” (Shultz 4). Sizer continues talking about the “happy engagement” between parents and community members starting a regional charter school. This would give students more options when it becomes time for a student to attend school. A charter school is much like a private school, except that money a public school receives for that student would follow him/her to the charter school. Sizer writes that if you “give people a cause worth following and the dignity of a necessary role for everyone of every age and they will respond- not quickly or easily, perhaps, but if patiently gathered, they will respond” (Shultz 7). This passage says that if you allow more options for a student to receive a great education, schools will improve because they will be forced to improve because the schools do not want to lose the money that is given to them for that student. The selection stresses that the finance for schooling should largely be the states responsibility because the money will fol

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