Week 6 Online: 4/21 – 4/26: H.W. 8. Education Due 4/28

1. Discuss some of your opinions /challenges on the current state of CUNY’s response to your educational needs during the COVID 19 pandemic? Do you think that adequate resources was provided by BMCC / and or CUNY to enable continue your educational goals / pursuit? In other words, how has the current situation impacted your educational plans? (be prepared to share your responses to this question during our virtual classroom).
The COVID19 pandemic has impacted my educational plans. I say this because now that we’re social distancing, classes are online only. I’ve always had a problem with online classes. Whether it’s because I’m not physically in class, cannot ask questions the way I would like too, assignments due at midnight that I haven’t even begun because of procrastinating. All of these things may have been avoided if we weren’t social distancing. I feel like I’m not really learning as much as I would be learning if I was physically in class in BMCC. I say this because I am just worried about my assignments being handed in by midnight, rather than actually being confident in myself knowing that my assignments are complete and just submitting them before the deadline. I tend to start all of my assignments about two or three hours before the deadline. On the other hand, if I were in school on campus, I would not really have a choice and I would be penalized for any assignments that I did not complete.

2. Has there ever been a time when your formal and informal educations in the same setting were at odds? How did you overcome that disconnect?
In my history class, textbooks say that the U.S. went to war with Iraq because they had weapons of mass destruction (which is formal), but by doing some research online I found that the real reason we went to war with Iraq is because they have an abundant amount of natural resources (which is informal). I overcame the disconnect by digging deeper and reading articles which helped me come up with my own conclusion.

3. Thinking of your school, what are some ways that a conflict theorist would say that your school perpetuates class differences?
One way that a conflict theorist would say that my school perpetuates class differences is the registration dates that we receive. My friend and I were taking the same amount of courses one semester. We both got the same grades. The difference was that I was eligible for financial aid and she wasn’t. She got her registration date one day earlier than I did. The next semester, we took a different amount of courses. I took more than her. I got 2 A’s, 1 B, and a W. She got B’s in both of her classes. The next semester’s registration date came up and we got the same registration date. It was unfair, but I couldn’t do anything about it.