No Saco Nada De La Escuela
By: Luis Valdez
I believe Luis Valdez decided to name the play “No Saco Nada De La Escuela” because through the whole play this is the message he’s trying to give to the audience. “The play argues that the educational system is irrelevant to the needs of the minority community, particularly in regards to the awareness of ones culture”. (Greenwalt, Pomo, Schultz, pg 763). So when he says he doesn’t get anything out of school, he’s talking about the minorities, meaning the American educational system doesn’t educate us about our cultures and backgrounds teaching us only of the American culture, forgetting our needs. There’s a line the professor says “I have here in my hand the book of American Knowledge. There is nothing here about chicken –o. in fact there is nothing in here about nothing” (pg 771) and the book had nothing but a dollar sigh. What I understand from this is that Valdez is trying to say that the schools only teach about the importance of finance and money but it doesn’t teach us the importance of our background, culture, roots; where we came from.
Good job integrating textual references into your work.
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