Use the GCU library and identify an actual solution to the social problems within
education. Summarize the solution you identified and compare it to historical solutions
proposed in the past (150-200 words).
Education is at least partly about the overall aims that society has for itself and how these aims
are realized in practice. It cannot, therefore, be a neutral technical exercise, but is invariably a
deeply ethical, political and cultural one bound up with ideas about the good society and how life
can be worthwhile (London: Routledge, 2006). This to me means that all races, backgrounds, and
beliefs are in the school system and nobody is turned away. Everyone getting along for the
greater good.

As far as solutions in the past, they started sex education which I thought was gross at first and
funny when I was younger, however the information that my teachers provided me at that point
was extremely useful, as I made it to high school. They had at one point taken sex education out
of schools, and then decided to put it back. Now, in my school they have it as an option in the
sixth grade, and it is not a requirement. From my stance, I would think that all parents would like


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