oppression
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Oppression is seen in many shapes and forms in our society today. According to Marilyn Frye's view of oppression, children who are poorer test takers and receive lower marks in school are subjected to an inferior educational class from children that do not have the same dilemma. The educational class in which a child of lower marks is placed into can shape their life from high school, enrolling in college, (if they even get in) to applying for a job.
The definition Frye uses to describe oppression is illustrated as a system of barriers forced onto a category of people, either by their race, gender, class, etc. The system is created by the oppressors who impose what frye calls a "natural" barrier that hinders the oppressed from excelling to a higher class.
Relating Frye's view of oppression to children who receive poorer educational training due to their lower marks in school can be directly connected with their gender, sex, and class, with the exception that the child's family is not extremely wealthy, famous, or has legacies with the institution. The reason Frye's view would not work in those circumstances is mainly because people with money or have legacies seem to remain in the higher educational intuitions; and furthermore, are not subjected to the same rules and regulation then of people who don't.
Children that fall into the category that Frye describes as being oppressed without recongtion or legacies tend to be constrained to a specified class throughout their life. For example, an African American female who performs poorly on tests throughout middle school will be placed in mediocre classes in high school instead of the advance placement ones. Even is she performs well on her tests and receives high marks in the first year of high school, the likelihood of her excelling into the advance placement classes are few to none...