Common Sense as a "Good Student"

Common sense cane be seen as, in my opinion from an education stand point, ideas or concepts that have been assumed correct where we have not truly taken time to question. Question what common sense looks like to us as individuals separate from society's influence. Separate from someone else's mind who made it an universal idea/concept that might not be true. Common sense can also not be the same for everyone and can vary from culture to culture, neighbourhood to neighbourhood, even family to family. Cultural hegemony is a theory where we all as a society participate in reproducing the status quo voluntarily. Even though we know it is unfair. That is how common sense is constructed through a sociologist theory. A way dominant groups produce a world view that makes its dominance seem natural, neutral, and normal. We reproduce this without a thought because we are conditioned to simply not question it. Hence, "without a thought". Historically, common sense views were mostly formed and passed down by the dominance of white, high class people.

To be a good student in the classroom, with keeping the idea of common sense in mind, looks like cooperating, listening, staying silent until spoken to or asked to speak, following direction, being punctual, focusing, completing assignments on time, and obeying the teacher. The teacher is always right and the students are always wrong, since we have so much to learn. The history of traditional curriculum, a good student is shaped by following and conforming to the rules of essentially, white dominant educators that are forced to teach through a white dominant curriculum. The traditional curriculum only supports students who are white and then conforms students of color to the idealistic views of a good white student. This sounds quite like an assimilation where schools are forcing all students to reflect the "qualities" of white people. As I stated in my last blog post of an article about I read about critical race theory, views education as an assimilation. The way traditional curriculum was made was a way to favour white people and keep their privilege, elite, dominant power in place. To use a critical race curriculum would help break apart inequalities that keep happening in schools.