If you have not checked out HBO's The Wire then you must! Check out the wikipedia page HERE. Pick this show up or download it.
This review is on the parts of The Wire
season 4 that deal with education. Though education
could be generalized to many aspects of the show, like learning the
“drug game” from starting on the corner of the inner cities of
Baltimore, Maryland to other positions, I will be focusing on the
public education system portrayed throughout this season. HBO's The
Wire has become part of many discussions among social science
publications for its illustrations of issues in inner city schooling,
it has also picked up some critiques for not portraying this
phenomenon realistically. I'm not debating whether the show is
realistic or not because that has no relevance, the fact of the
matter is that it brings up the issues and enables discussion and
awareness.
There would simply be too much to cover
if I were to focus on every theme within the study of education
that's included in this show, for that reason I will focus on key
aspects covered in course material, that being Afro-Centrism and
traditional methods of teaching. It is clear that many of the
