Hierarchy in School

I do not believe that my experiences with institutional hierarchies, teacher-student, and student-student relationships fit into any of the standard reactions to hierarchy that Kennedy outlines. I think that Kennedy’s account better reflects the experiences and relationships in a more professional setting, mainly graduate school and law school. I am almost done with my college career and can say that this has not applied to any of my relationships with teachers or students. The relationships I have had with my teachers throughout college were far more casual than the ones outlined by Kennedy. These relationships were relatively simple; the teacher was in charge, gave lectures, assigned homework, gave tests and assigned grades. Most teachers I had never totally assumed a dictator like position and instead allowed for some democracy in the classroom such as asking us for our input on how classes should be run and about which assignments we preferred. As far as the actual hierarchy goes, I honestly have never truly considered it but obviously students are at the bottom and teachers at the top, because they have the information we need and the power to pass or fail us, thus having a direct impact on our education and progress towards our careers. On the other hand, we have far less power and control over the teachers, all we can do as students is file complaints or give them bad scores on the student rating of teacher effectiveness (SRTE). Also, I would imagine teachers with tenure are even higher in this hierarchy.