“No matter whom we are no matter which neighbor we live in. It’s all the same taking a leap of faith in school.” There are not enough good schools, so we place our kids in the hands of luck. This little boy, Anthony lost his father by suicide with drugs.
Daisy a little girl is already writing a letter to the college she wants to go to become a vet, doctor or nurse. She knows at such a young age that students should make school fun; she knows that she has to get an education for themselves. They are talking about the differences in schools and also the impact they have on students. Daisy’s way to college path is hard, in high school over 40% of the students don’t graduate. There are over 2000 drop out factories.
All these presidents are talking about how important education is. But why is it not changing? There is doubled money in education and yet the test scores stay the same. “We need to know through tests if students are making it, getting an education.”
There is another little boy that doesn’t like school, but he likes math and it is interesting because he is in a school that is over packed with kids. This little boys name in Francisco, he has trouble in reading even though mom works with him at home. The mom wishes she could do more for her kids, she is stuck, and it’s not fair.
“You go to college you learn you get a career. Not a job, there is a difference.” What is happening to students why do their grades drop as they get older?
Students are being “pushed through the system.” At 15 years old they are a drop out. When they get into the 9th grade they are only reading at a 2nd and 3rd grade level. We blame the neighborhood for the dropout rates, but I think it is the schools fault for the neighborhood’s.
The money we have spent on people in jail could have set a student to a private school for 13 years for less than that amount.
“Because a good teach, Anthony shows promise.” Most kids in D.C are getting a crappy education right now. They thing there is one woman would can change the school district, Michelle Rhee. She shut down 23 schools in Washington D.C because of firing principals or teachers.
“Things we have done to make our schools better have made our schools worst.” A good teach is what is working and a bad teacher is not working. Good teachers can cover 150% and a bad teacher can cover 50%.
Once you get tenure, you are there for life. After you have taught for a certain amount of time, you cannot get fired almost no matter what you do. Teachers get protected for life, whether they are honorable or whatever they are doing. I think we should change this rule for sure.
There is nothing more difficult than the life of a teacher. There is so much that they have to worry about, home, school everything for their students. You cannot pay teachers more if they are doing amazing in their job because it’s not in the “contract.” That is stupid and messed up!!
1 in 2500 has actually lost their teaching credentials. There are these new things called charter schools, but by law they have to choose students be the lottery system.
If you want a better school for your kids, it is all about the options. A parent like Maria has to look hard for a good school for her kid. It should not have to be like that, it would be awesome to have amazing teachers everywhere. I don’t know how we can do it. But we should really make amazing teachers happen everywhere. We had an amazing education system in the 1900’s because of our free education system. But, now we are the highest in confidence.
A lot of the ways that we have things now have not changed from back then, which is bad because the world around us has changed.
These poor parents are doing all they can to get the best education that they can for their kids. It should not be that way; you should not get a good education just because of chance.
If you teach students with music and other ways it helps students learn different skills. Which makes so much sense, because you learn better with different things involved like music, hands, eyes, ears etc. The more you get it involved the more progress and learning you will see. If you apply the right standards you can make those kids learn. You can raise them to those expectations “No exceptions.”
Why can’t we just change the past rules. Times have changed so the rules should be changed too. There has to be, this is really what is going to better all of our schools. “We have tried money, passing laws and the latest reforms. You can’t have a great school without great teachers.” How true that is when teachers are good it pushes the students to be great also and to accomplish great things. So what do we do to get good teachers? Did we do the right thing, did we do enough?
That is just so sad that the rest of these kids’ lives had so much to do with which schools they go to and have it all by a lottery system, I know that they have to do it. But that is so hard. Only one out of like the 5 or 6 kids got accepted and it is just so sad and hard for the students and families. These poor parents are just fighting their hearts out for their kids, to be the most successful they can.
All and all though the statues quoi can be changed, and we have the tools to do so.
I think that the charter schools can help education, but I am think that it can be hurting other schools because I think they are taking money from that school district and putting it into the charter schools, and as I have said before how is it fair to randomly choose students to basically have a better life because of their education. I guess it is kind of, but that is so hard to see. I think that is awesome that they are making improvements with these students. But, why can’t people just get smart, and we take a vote on changing some of the only rules, like tenure thing and also the way that the princapals run things. How other teachers treat their students if they are poor, how people look down upon those kids. I think this video really opened my eyes to how bad education really is, everyone talks about how bad it is but, I never really knew. This video showed me first hand and helped me understand those concepts. I thought it was okay, because in the area that I go to school, it doesn’t seem that bad, maybe I am one of the lucky ones…? I don’t know but, I wish that everyone had an equal chance.
you take great notes, and I enjoyed the fact that you not only pointed out the good and bad points of this film.
ReplyDeleteI agree. You'd think in this country we would all have an equal chance but it doesn't always work that way. It's too bad we can't all work together to come up with a plausible solution.
ReplyDeleteYou have some great notes here! And I agree with Holly. It's good that you point out the good and bad aspects of it all.
ReplyDeleteGreat notes, Ally! I also found it heartbreaking that students had to go through the lottery system. I wouldn't want my kids to go through that.
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