Monday, November 4, 2013
The articles communicates about how America spends the most money on prisons and how locking criminals behind bars is the only option without thinking about other alternatives, which they are trying to improve on. It says how the weak inmates in jail are also victoms of rape and assault and there have been no law in regards to the situation. Majority of the prisoners do not enter society as nicer people than before and due to a vast amount of gang members, they tend to run the the facility instead of it being in the hands of the correction. They also considered about other alternatives and how the non- dangerous criminals should enter other rehabilitation and give other punishments to those who aren't harsh criminals. I think that we should partner prison with counselors so they'll have someone to talk too and get help with their personal behaviors, and programs might help as well to improve on their lifestyle so they can recgonize what's importnat instead of doing the wrong things. We can also make prisonser more successful if prison inmates aren't treated so nicely because they get 3 meals a day, allowed to take their shirts off and showing off gang signs which they shouldn't be allowed to do because that's just causing more drama between their rivals. Although their are strict rules that are enforced on the prisoner, I believe that the prisons are kind of lenient in a way and they should be locked behind their cell more instead of having time outside, working out or etc.. What I found interesting was the punishment for criminals who were theives and how they had to give back to their victims and the community by payint the state $5 for room while they also work to pay back to the people they stole from. I was confused about how their are no laws about consequences for raping and assulting other inmates. Like if that is also a big issue in prisons, shouldn't their be some rule regulating the problems so criminals in jail won't do it?
Monday, October 21, 2013
10/21/13
Should we have compassion for a community callus?
I believe that we should have compassion for a community callus because it's intuitive and important that we recgonize the bad problems that are happening elsewhere, and the effects that it has for families and adolscents. Our concerns drive us in making a difference to transform the negativites into a more positive and safe community for ourselves, and for people living in other neighborhoods. For instance, Gregor Boyle said, ""I can't explain how the poor in Bolivia evangelized me.. but they turned me inside out, and from that moment forward I only wanted to walk with them"" (Boyle 1). As a church Pastor, Boyle was scheduled to work at Santa Clara University to run a student service program, but he decided to stay at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in LA archdiocese. Boyle percieved major worries for gang related activities in his community, and therefore; made the decision to spend his time converting gang members and guiding them towards a better future. Compassion builds motive in making a difference for a community and for the lives of others, just like it did for Boyle. Caring for others is an act of kindness and if we can make a difference in a community, people will look up to us. People who are suffering physically and mentally will have someone to turn too for help and advice, it presents to him or her a sign of hope to turn over a new leaf, moreover; bettering themselves as an individual. For example, he or she can be an alchohic, a drug addict, or a gang member, and etc., and with a caring attitude, we can put effort in turning people's lives and making them feel important. It's important that we have sympathy for people who are in need of help because sometimes a small concern can lead to a drastic change. Whether it's changing a person or a whole community, being compassionate will make oneself realize that it's our responsability to aid those who are in need of help and giving them a better tomorrow.
Should we have compassion for a community callus?
I believe that we should have compassion for a community callus because it's intuitive and important that we recgonize the bad problems that are happening elsewhere, and the effects that it has for families and adolscents. Our concerns drive us in making a difference to transform the negativites into a more positive and safe community for ourselves, and for people living in other neighborhoods. For instance, Gregor Boyle said, ""I can't explain how the poor in Bolivia evangelized me.. but they turned me inside out, and from that moment forward I only wanted to walk with them"" (Boyle 1). As a church Pastor, Boyle was scheduled to work at Santa Clara University to run a student service program, but he decided to stay at Dolores Mission Church, the poorest parish in LA archdiocese. Boyle percieved major worries for gang related activities in his community, and therefore; made the decision to spend his time converting gang members and guiding them towards a better future. Compassion builds motive in making a difference for a community and for the lives of others, just like it did for Boyle. Caring for others is an act of kindness and if we can make a difference in a community, people will look up to us. People who are suffering physically and mentally will have someone to turn too for help and advice, it presents to him or her a sign of hope to turn over a new leaf, moreover; bettering themselves as an individual. For example, he or she can be an alchohic, a drug addict, or a gang member, and etc., and with a caring attitude, we can put effort in turning people's lives and making them feel important. It's important that we have sympathy for people who are in need of help because sometimes a small concern can lead to a drastic change. Whether it's changing a person or a whole community, being compassionate will make oneself realize that it's our responsability to aid those who are in need of help and giving them a better tomorrow.
Monday, October 7, 2013
9 paragraph assignment
A great
number of children in urban neighborhoods attend schools that are lowly funded
so students are not supplied with the proper school resources and they feel
like their school district are treating them unfairly. Students are aware of
how bad their schools are because they aren’t provided with the simple materials
and resources that will bring excitement when they go and moreover, children
state the obvious differences between their poor schools to other schools that
are in the surban neighborhoods. Poorly
funded schools that are filled with young children might not recognize it at
first, but shortly, “adolescents in the poorest neighborhoods learn very soon
that they are getting less than children in the wealthier school districts”(Kazul,
Jonathon 57). The students that attend schools inside their districts in the
state of Illinois perceive the differences of quality and quantity of the
materials that they don’t have and compare it to other children who do attend
better schools in the urban neighborhoods.
Children that live in poorly finance neighborhoods cannot be fooled
about injustice because they see it everywhere around them and especially when
they go to school each and every morning surrounded in such an indigent
environment. Students see children on
T.V and see how they are able to travel for athletic competition with new sport
equipment that is provided to each individual on the team. Due to what they
perceived, the suburban students detect the unfairness from what the school
offers them, and those students feel mistreated and angry because he or she
isn’t provide with that sort of brand name sport equipment at the school they
attend because they receive a limited amount of athletic equipment that isn’t
even enough for half the students, and moreover; most of the materials are
either worn out or broken which isn’t even useful for students to enjoy and
have fun with other kids. Also, they see a happy environment when they visit
schools in the suburban neighborhood and hear positive things from their
friends who goes to a better school than them. The unhappy students describe
the other children as “rich” kids who have access to a library, encyclopedias,
and computers so they start to grow unjust feelings because he or she
recognizes how much less they’re getting than the wealthier kids. The urban
children regard themselves as victims in their own school and therefore, local
school systems should find a way to get sufficient funding in order to present
an equitable school environment for children who live in poverty- stricken
neighborhoods.
Urban
districts portray bitter and despairing images for students who begin their
morning ritual in bad conditioned schools without resources and along with a
lack of premises. Children raised in the urban view their community as a sad place
from their perspective, due to living in a low funded, segregated town with
families and children who are struggling, similar to theirs. Student’s early
life experiences affect them mentally and place them in an emotional state of
mind. Schools have the responsibility to supply its students with accommodating
materials and nourishment and “Camden High School.. can’t afford facilities for
lunch, so 2,000 children leave school daily to obtain lunch elsewhere” (Kazul
141). It’s a frustrating feeling for the adolescents whom are attending Camden
High, located in the state of New Jersey. Camden High is so poor on income that
they aren’t able to provide a decent meal to students since the school can’t
afford a cafeteria for the children during lunch hour, and moreover; students
are insisted to return to school after their lunch break is over. The poor conditions in low funded schools
leave students and parents unhappy. Students spend early mornings sitting in a
class and they can’t even get food at their own school when the lunch bell ring
and sometimes, parents might not be home to feed their kids if children choose
to return home for a warm meal, there’s a possibility that they go home to an
empty refrigerator as well and if the school and their shelter doesn’t provide
nourishment for them, who else would? Students might not even have money in the
first place to purchase food in a liquor store or a fast food restaurant
because parents are expecting their kids to get free lunch directly at their
school due to the income that they make. It’s a disappointing feeling and it
leaves students unhappy because they are being treated so badly in their
community, a place that is supposed to provide students with a good education,
supplying them with resources and facilities for them to enjoy and getting food
to fill up their empty stomache. The struggles of low funded schools leave a
child unhealthy because schools aren’t able to provide them lunch and if no
action takes place, students will return to their same sentiment about their
school environment.
Furthermore,
children will not value their education when they come into a poorly funded
school, especially when their classroom doesn’t provide them enough materials
for everyone to use. Students will dislike waking up early in the morning,
entering a class and being forced to wait patiently until what they need is
available to them and this problem causes a child to feel unimportant and
separated from the other classmates that are part of the learning circle. A 16
year old teenager inform Kazul, ““there are 42 students in my science class, 40
in my English class- 45 in my home room. When all the kids show up, five of us
have to stand in the back”” (Kazul 111). The teenage student from New York City
who attends school in the Bronx was not happy about the situation because while
students are being seated, he has to stand in the back of the class with the
rest of the students who are left out and frustrated, moreover; causing him to
phone Jonathan Kazul and notifying him about the problem. The student try to
make an effort in getting help to change
the situation that is happening in his classrooms, he’s unhappy about coming to
school, unable to sit in front of a desk and learn. It isn’t right for children
who don’t have any other choice but to stand up in their class due to a large
capacity of students with not enough chairs for those who choose to show up to
class for a purpose. The purpose can be: children value their education, he or
she enjoys learning, and they want to graduate high school and make it to
college! So the fact that the 16 year old teen had to stand in the back, it
effects his precious time because it’s slowly being wasted due to lack of
chairs. He won’t be able to participate in class assignments or activities
because there is no spot for him at a desk, and he won’t be able to collaborate
nor do group work with the other students! If the problem isn’t resolved,
majority of students will give up from coming to school because he or she
doesn’t tolerate the problem that has been happening more than once, it leaves
them with a bad attitude and gives them no good reason for why they should show
up every day. Change needs to happen in order to improve the learning system
for children or else every other kid will be kicked in the back, giving them an
unwanted feeling and students will no longer recognize the Importance of
education.
Children in
the urban neighborhood who attend school in their community will feel like
they’re being fairly treated if their school was able to provide the students
with proper class tools and newly equipment. Urban students will no longer look
at their school differently or compare what they don’t have when they see or
hear about what the wealthier children in their school districts are provided
with because they will no longer feel like they are unimportant. For example,
if the urban children had a nice library, a gym with working sport equipment,
and proper science tools, they will feel equivalent to the rest of the students
at other schools that are located in wealthier districts. The children will feel better as students
because with all the school resource and activity rooms that are provided, it
gives them a chance to improve their learning, and a chance to show off their
athletic abilities by joining a sport team. Students in science class will have
a better advantage of understanding the intended lesson that the teacher is
trying to educate them because they are able to use sufficient tools in their
science lab, they will acquire the same knowledge that the wealthier children
are receiving. Also, with a nice
library, they will have access to an unlimited amount of books to get their
head into and enjoy what they have. Furthermore, a sport field will bring the
students fun and excitement, enable them to have sport teams so they can travel
to other schools and meet other children. Urban children will feel fairly educated and
equally treated if their schools provided them the sufficient school resources
and premises, it leaves them feeling important as the rest of the children
living in the suburban neighborhood.
Besides
feeling fairly treated, school resources will bring happiness within every
student because it makes them feel like they’re attending a good school,
allowing every child to operate with new conditioned materials. Students will
sense a positive vibe about their class environment and moreover, a child will
feel more confident with all the resources that are provide because it’s
helpful and useful to them when they’re in school.” “What I need are new
electrics.. they’d love it!”” (kazul, 138) says a typing teacher at Pyne Point
Junior High, during her interview with Kazul. The female typing teacher have
been at Pyne Point Junior high for many years and she recognize the attitude
that children possess when they are using the Olympian machines. The typewriters
that are provided to students is not a modern typing lab but a historical typewriter
that have been there since she had parents of the children that are in her
class. School materials like new computers, art supplies and books will make a
child feel good about coming to school because he or she knows that they’ll
have a productive day ahead of them when they wake up in the morning. New
computers will allow students to experience the new technology and they’ll get
to work with up to date machines that allow them to use new documents, it’ll
work faster and won’t break down, or freeze when students are using them. Also,
If students had new art supplies in their art class, they will enjoy coming to
class because he or she knows that every student will be provided with art
tools and that’ll allow students to enjoy their time painting and drawing
whatever they want without having to share, or wait for their turn. And the new
books that are supplied, children will appreciate them instead of complaining
about missing pages and how worn out or ripped they are. A school that supply
their classrooms with new and proper school resources will affect every child’s
attitude because students will feel more happy and positive with what he or she
have, and they will value their education more instead of protesting for what
they need.
Another,
students will feel more successful when they attend a school that deliver its
students with acceptable school resources because it allows a child to
acknowledge their school as a place that will prepare them for the future.
Students will respect their time that is being spent in a classroom and he or
she will be eager to learn instead of feeling weary in their class surrounding.
Urban schools will be given a “head start to our children and pre-
kindergarten, and materials.. and attractive buildings and enough books and
supplies.. sufficient to compete with the suburban schools” (kazul 143). Students
from Camden High School will be prepared for class activities, homework
assignments and exams if they are provided with proper resources where they can
obtain information from. For example, an English teacher assign his or her
students’ homework and everything that their students need to know will be from
their literature book, and so when every student is provided with the book, and
with no missing pages, it will enable students to finish their homework
assignment and review what have been taught in class. He or she won’t fall
behind in their schooling and students will be prepared to talk about their
homework or the lesson that their teacher intended to teach the next morning
when they come into class. Furthermore, students will be able to use their book
as a study guide for an upcoming test because with books provided to every
student, they can bring it home with them and use it as a useful tool to study
and obtain knowledge from it. Additionally, with new computers supplied in
their computer lab, students are able to do great research and do online
activities and moreover, students get to enjoy their technology because it
works and it isn’t an ancient machine that will break down easily. Students
will feel more confident because they are able to acquire knowledge from their
useful school materials and it gives them a positive reason to why school is
important.
Then again,
there are circumstances in which school resources aren’t important because it’s
based on the student’s attitude, if he or she is willing to use the resources
that are provided wisely in order to succeed in their schooling. Students have
the obligation to benefit from what they’re educated and supplied with and
sometimes children will not value what they have and therefore, will not take
their education seriously. Ms. Thornton, a superintendent at the Bayside/
Martin Luther King Elementary School states, “The system had been plague by low
academic achievement.. and an almost- annual turnover in leadership” (Johnston,
Robert 2). Bayside/ Martin Luther King elementary school is the fourth- highest
spending elementary school in California and students who attend the school are
provided with a two story library, computer lab and many new equipment. The
school spent $12, 100 per student and although the students seem to have it
all, their grades don’t add up to an academic paradise. For example, student
should be doing better with their abundant resources and benefiting from them,
but if majority of students are failing and that proves that it’s the student
who is failing, and not the school that is causing them to fail. Students
shouldn’t be falling behind and having low grades in class if they are provided
with such proper materials, he or she should benefit from it. Sometimes children
don’t value what they have and care less about their education. It’s up to a
child if he or she is willing to help oneself by using what they’re provided
with productively because students can be assign with homework, and they are
provided with a nice math book with no ripped pages, and it won’t be useful if
they lack the effort in using their book wisely by finishing the homework
assignment that have been instructed by his or her teacher. The math homework
can be a review to what a student’s teacher intended to teach and if a child
decide not to do it, he or she won’t be able to further understand what have
been taught in class and therefore, he or she will be behind on the next
homework assignment, or even fail a quiz that is given. School materials aren’t
the most important thing in urban school districts because students aren’t
meeting the academic expectation even though they are provided with many
resources that allow them to benefit from and become successful.
Secondly,
school materials doesn’t matter if students are provided with sufficient school
resources and are presenting low academic scores for many years. Students may
have a hard time in their schooling even if one does put in effort because a
child’s success and failure can be based on the lifestyle that he or she is
presented with. School officials in the Sausalito district defend the student’s
performance by “pointing out that most of their students come from poor, single-
parent families, and are at risk for academic failure. Forty- four percent of
the district’s students receive special education services” (Johnston 3).
Students who attend Bayside/ Martin Luther King Elementary School are endanger
of failing their grade level because some students are raised by single parents
who are struggling socioeconomically and it effects their ability to help their
child’s schooling and moreover; majority of students are in need of further assistance
with their school work to boost their grades up. Proper school materials isn’t
a necessity if students are failing due to their lack of understanding because
sometimes a child needs more help in understanding a class subject. For
instance, students in MLK Elementary School are weak in articulation and
coordination and it’s the parent’s responsibility in helping a child to improve
on one’s weaknesses, and not because students aren’t supplied with decent literature
books. A child’s parent(s) can struggle financially due to their low income and
sometimes they’re too stressful to deal with their kids, which gives his or
child a disadvantage to review what he or she have been learning in class.
Also, there are parents who didn’t finish high school nor attended college so
it’s more difficult to help their child succeed in school because they don’t
have the sufficient knowledge to really help their child enhance their learning
ability. In this situation, school resources aren’t a necessity because a
student’s success depends on the parent(s) and their social class.
As
important, school materials aren’t relevant if students choose to be inattentive
towards their education. Students negligent in learning leads to bad behavior and
their unmoral attitude effects their academics. Barry Kaufman, dean of the
school education explains the lack of discipline that students present and how “there’s
no effort to create a high achieving instructional environment” (Johnston 3).
Students at Bayside MLK elementary are provided with so many great equipment
and resources to help them succeed and unfortunately, students fail to improve
their schooling and do not meet their academic requirements, leaving the school
to give a bad impression. For instance, students can be going to school just to
go, they do not take the advantage of free education and the school materials
that are provided to guide themselves towards a positive pathway to success.
Students who don’t care about their education will take it as a joke and
therefore, he or she will not take it seriously and goof around in class and
can disrespect higher authority like their teachers. Students can be messing
around in class by speaking to friends loudly while teachers are instructing,
and disrupting the students who do try to learn. The students who neglect their
education aren’t interested in listening and learning about what his or her
teacher have to offer and therefore, he or she effects the school community.
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
Oanh Hoang
Professor Monique Williams
English 1A
3 October 2012
During the schooling hours, teachers
have the obligation to instruct his or her class effectively by giving class
lectures and enabling students to collaborate in groups to share one’s personal
opinion and ideas with one another, and along with having the right tools for
teachers to use in order to advance his or her students learning. Attending a
poorly funded school, students aren’t able to meet the expectations of a
concept that they’re being teach “because the children do not have appropriate
equipment, there are no variables to be observed. Children in water play in a pre-kindergarten
class would learn as much scientific process as these eighth grade kids are
learning” (Kazol, Jonathan 140). Students don’t understand the lesson that
their instructor is intending to deliver so they are insisted to keep
experimenting. The eight grade students at Pyne Point Junior High, located
besides Delaware River, was being taught about how the waves form and the
students aren’t clearly recognizing the scientific process of what is being
tested so they clarify with the wrong answer. The eighth grade students don’t
have the materials to really have a deep understanding on why things happen the
way they do during their wave experiment so Students wrote in their notebooks,
“water splashes” which isn’t correct and therefore, proves that the eighth
grade students aren’t fully understanding the science objective so they are
slowly falling behind on the knowledge of what his or her teacher is
intentionally teaching. The students aren’t to blame because they’re in need of
science materials and without the right science tools for the science class, students
won’t recognize the phenomena that they’re instructed to observe. Although they
are supplied with cheap plastic cocktail glasses, those tools will not be
useful because the plastic cocktail glasses aren’t the proper science material
and it will affect their learning, allowing them to draw the wrong conclusions
during their wave experiment. Moreover, what
they need are saucers with a wide circumference because the he saucers will
enable the students to see the water surface, the ripples that are forming
after each drop of water and students will be able to give a strong answer of
water forming circles until it reaches the circumference of the container. Quality
materials are a necessity because it will help teachers to effectively educate his
or her students, allowing every child to proficiently identify the intended
concept of a certain lesson that is being taught.
Besides the effective teaching from teachers
who have materials to provide to his or her classroom, school materials are
important because it helps advance a student’s learning ability. Students will
gain more knowledge if they have alternative ways that will help them review what
has been taught or spoken in class and with tangible resources supplied in a
classroom, it allows a child to further educate themselves. For instance, a
number of teachers..do not have books for half the students in their classes”
(Kazul 138) at Pyne Point Junior High,
so the parents of those students don’t know what they’re missing and therefore,
make no demands. The children who attend the high school is being poorly
educated due to lack of materials.
Students need books for their certain classes with different subjects
and majority of their teachers aren’t able to provide that material for them so
students will feel like they’re falling behind because he or she aren’t
provided with the book that they’re supposed to have in the first place. With no book supplied to a child, he or she
won’t be able to participate with the rest of the class and the children who
are provided with their class book because there can be class discussion going
on or even group chats about what they have been reading and learning about,
and the student who’s bookless will feel left out and unable to connect. Also,
without a book, students won’t be able to finish homework that have been
assigned regard to their class book. All
the questions that they’re supposed to answer is directly from the book and if
one lacks the class resource, she or she will have a hard time catching up with
the rest of the students and lessons that have been taught from their instructor,
and moreover; students won’t be able to study proficiently for an upcoming test
because all the information that they need to know and what might show up on
their test is from the book. Students
won’t be able to prepare themselves so the lack of their class book effects
their knowledge and what they need to obtain in order to pass their exam with a
good grade. Classrooms in every school
should provide class materials for every student because without the needed
resources, students won’t have an advantage to succeed throughout their
classes.
Despite the effectiveness of school
materials and how it can help a child, it is important that the school supply students
with the classroom materials that is required and the facility that enable
students to perform their activities at because it builds a more positive
attitude within a student. The lack of
materials can effect a child emotionally and if one attend a school that doesn’t
provide enough resources and materials, it will therefore, cause students to consume
a negative attitude and they will feel unsuccessful and unhappy about coming to
school every morning. Children in New Jersey, those who are part of the track
team has to do most of its running in the hallways of school, it buys a minimum
of exercise..”(Kazul 157). Members of the track team doesn’t have a decent
field where they can practice and improve their running skills and therefore,
are instructed to run in the school building where classes are in session. High school students in East Orange receive
physical education which benefits there health, but although they get an amount
of exercise, the school is in need of many things: P.E gym, soccer balls, basketballs
and lacrosse equipment, jump ropes and a dance studio. The absence of sport
equipment effects the school because it doesn’t allow them to have athletic
programs. It will make the children upset because there are students who are
very athletic and are interested in sports and they don’t have a chance to enjoy
their favorite sport, and moreover; to improve on building team sportsmanship
because playing a sport teachers a child to work as a team, instead of counting
on oneself. Furthermore, with many students in a class, a child will have to
take turn and share the equipment.
Children would have to wait for 15 minutes for a chance to hold a jump rope
which will build frustration within a child because he or she wouldn’t know if
the other student is willing to share or not, and by the time it’s the other
child’s turn to use the jump rope, P.E session will be over and it’ll leave
children sad because they aren’t able to have fun and do what they love during
their P.E class. Sport equipment is important within a child’s education
because it brings pleasure and happiness, a positive attitude, and it reminds
children that education can bring fun.
Monday, September 30, 2013
I believe that materials do matter,
well “new” materials of course because without them, teachers won’t be able to
teach their students proficiently which will affect their student’s learning. Teachers
need the right school resources in order to provide their students a sufficient
education because without the right materials, students won’t be able to recognize
the concepts of what the teacher is trying to educate them because not every
student learns from listening to teacher’s lectures. For example, for a teacher
who is teaching a science class should provide the class with the right science
tools and up to date books. With the new materials, his or her students will
learn better with the up to date information that is from the book and what’s
being told by their instructors, and moreover; when it comes to labs, the right
science tools will help them learn why things happen the way they do and it’ll
effect their learning because the students get to use materials that gives them
a better understanding of the major concepts of what they’re learning in class,
and also because they get to test it out and see it for themselves. There are
circumstances when school materials do matter and times they do not. For example, an English class with books that
are old but is still providing students to read at their grade level than there
shouldn’t be a problem because it’s still useful. Times when school resources
do matter is like computer labs, science labs, and art tools for students to
use, without it, how can they be doing hands on activities and have fun and
learning at the same time. A child feels like learning is boring when they don’t
have the right materials, they feel like their life is over. When students do have the school resources,
it build confidence and boost up their self- esteem and it gives them excitement. We can do donations and put the money to help
students get school resources. Citizens that are produced from lack of
materials have a negative mentality, no hope and their future is over because
students go to school for a reason, but without useful resources, it won’t
benefit them much.
In the Article “Dollars don’t mean
Success” and the Book, Savage
Inequalities, the similarities that I’ve found between the schools stated
in the book and Bayside/ Martin Luther King Elementary that was informed in the
article were: lack of academic achievement, change of principals, low- income
families and low unemployment rate in the area, and racial problems. The teachers in the urban schools that was
stated in the book had a difficulty in helping their students raise their
grades up and improving their academic achievement, had many new teachers in
such a short time period, and most of the student’s come from a single parent
or parents with low- income and living in a segregated town. Bayside school in
the article had five principals in six years, the average income there is about
$7,500 and unemployment rate is at 30 percent.
No effort to create a high- achieving instructional environment with 72
percent of graduates earning a GPA below 2.0, and majority of the 3,000
residents are African American, with students coming from poor, single- parent
families as well and therefore, the schools have many things in common and need
to make some positive changes.
The
information that I found in my article doesn’t really relates to my focus but
more opposite from my focus. The Bayside/ MLK elementary school have a
sufficient funding where there school had new computer labs and new equipment, and
a two story library. With all the new and proficient resources that is at that
school and provided to the students, it doesn’t really mean anything because
students there don’t value what they have and take their education seriously. Children there lack discipline and teachers
have rough times dealing with them and their academic scores are below average,
with a school that has everything need to provide a good education for its
students. Money doesn’t really mean success for kids because it’s up to them to
own their responsibility and take education more seriously, so students who don’t
value their resources and use them to better their schooling, than there’s no
point in having them in the first place because it isn’t really helping them.Tuesday, September 24, 2013
The lack of federal funding is
difficult for schools to put money into the construction and aesthetics of
school buildings, putting students in an uncomfortable and unpleasant environment. American schools are supposed to bring joy
and comfort to every child who wakes up each morning. A place that builds
curiosity and motivating students to work hard in order to fulfil their future
dreams, but suburban schools aren’t getting the help and sufficient funding
that’s needed to put their students in a positive learning environment. kazol writes, "the school is a two- story building, yellow brick, its windows covered with metal grates, the flag on it's flagpole motionless above a lawn with no grass(Kazol, Jonathan 138. A building with bad conditions is no place
for children to be around because it can harm a student on any random day,
physically and emotionally. If students
are in an environment that is filled with dump and broken windows and
unrepaired walls and buildings, it will lead majority of them to have low self-
esteem and confidence to break those barriers in order to succeed throughout
their schooling years. Students will
feel hopeless because it’s such a dull place that they are forced to be
in. Without the fund that is needed to
improve their surroundings and buildings, students won’t have the mentality
that pushes them to strive because if their classes are filled with ancient
books, they won’t be up to knowledge and they are smart enough to know that
they won’t make it to college or even graduate high school because they don't have the right textbooks and supplies that is needed for their class. If the outside of
their school is filled with sewage and chemicals, they won’t be able to focus
because they will be distracted from the smell and such horrible scenery that
is presented. Students need to walk down
hallways and seeing inspiring posters, it can turn a child’s mind and making
them think in a positive manner, but without the funding, there is no way to
beautify a school and providing a safe and happy environment for students to
put effort into their education and mostly their life.
Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Bad behavior is contagious which will effect students in every American schools to follow and they will not value their education more than they should. Teachers are suppose to be a role model to their students and if they can't do that, students won't recognize how important it is to take their education seriously. They won't be able to learn because there is no positive influence that's given from the teacher and therefore, the bad attitude from the teacher is what the student will become.
The careless attitude of a teacher will show students that learning is boring which will unmotivated them and causing them to question why they're attending school in the first place. Careless teachers are passive and not passionate because they don't touch a child's mind and aren't influencing their students positively but abandoning them. Passive teachers don't tend to teach actively and so they don't have the capability to build a foundation for students to succeed.
Teachers take advantage of students because they aren't in a class room to prove that education is key to every student's success in the future. Apathetic teachers see students as their paycheck and so they don't fulfill their duty to teach and go over the objectives of certain subjects that students should be learning or reaching the criteria in which students are suppose to get out of a class. And they tend to put students second because they only care about their salary and therefore, they don't see students as the future.
The careless attitude of a teacher will show students that learning is boring which will unmotivated them and causing them to question why they're attending school in the first place. Careless teachers are passive and not passionate because they don't touch a child's mind and aren't influencing their students positively but abandoning them. Passive teachers don't tend to teach actively and so they don't have the capability to build a foundation for students to succeed.
Teachers take advantage of students because they aren't in a class room to prove that education is key to every student's success in the future. Apathetic teachers see students as their paycheck and so they don't fulfill their duty to teach and go over the objectives of certain subjects that students should be learning or reaching the criteria in which students are suppose to get out of a class. And they tend to put students second because they only care about their salary and therefore, they don't see students as the future.
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