Schools segment students across workers by grade and function, limiting continuity

Evidence

Schools not only specialize by function, but they also are organized so that different workers take responsibilities for different stages through which pupils pass. Different teachers receive students each year as teaching is cross-specialized by grade. The example of specialization in teaching is particularly apt because schools have the most extensive opportunities to interact substantially with service recipients. — Michael Lipsky, Street-Level Bureaucracy, 580

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Schools serve as the machinery that manufactures differentiated intellectual strata; Schools replicate workplace dominance hierarchies to produce a docile labor force. — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 1120; Common schooling would unify intellectual and industrial work across social life

Broader Connections

• Schools serve as the machinery that manufactures differentiated intellectual strata #expands (0.85)
• Schools replicate workplace dominance hierarchies to produce a docile labor force. #expands (0.85) — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America, 1120
• Common schooling would unify intellectual and industrial work across social life #complicates (0.75)