many parents who want to put their child in a good school, rely on luck. their childs name is put into a lottery, random numbers on a ball, computer or picking a name out of a bowl.
daisy wants to be a nurse, doctor and a vet. she already wrote a letter to her college asking to attend, she says to find different ways to make learning fun.
reading scores and math had flat lined, and the schools pay double for each student.
franssico is in the 3rd largest school in the district thats over crowded in the bronx
biancas mother will do anything for her daughter to go to college, she wants her to get an education, career and make a difference.
arizona 26% and california 24% proficiency in math
our nations capital has 12% proficiency in reading
only 3 out of 100 students at roosevelt will graduate with the proper classes to get into a 4 year college.
40,000 didnt graduate over 40 years at alan locke high school
failing neighborhood might be blamed for failing schools
oliver high school drop out factor, 68% of inmates in penn are drop out students.
for the money they spend on one inmate they could have sent them to a private school from k-12 and had money left over for college.
the government will give the schools money but the state also funds the schools and has certain criteria of their own that may counter what the government has. which can block the schools from teaching the students properly
a bad teacher covers 50% of the curriculum per year, a good teacher covers 150% and they both get paid the same.
public school teachers tenure has been automatic whether they teach or not, and you cant get rid of them no matter how bad or what they do. but university professors may never get it.
teachers that are good cannot be paid more because its not in the contract, so bad teachers are paid for being bad and it doesnt change.
schools trade off bad teachers hoping the next one was better than the last.
teachers under trial still get full pay for being in a room for 7 hours a day waiting for a hearing.
1 in 2500 teachers lose their teaching credentials
geoffrey canada became a good teacher in 3 years and a master teacher in 5 years.
charter schools, public money, public education but privately run. and children enrolled from lottery.
US ranks last in average scores but first in confidence.
schools havent changed but the world around them has changed.
kids can learn, if you apply the right material and stuff the kids will learn
we have tried money, laws and reforms, but you cant have a great school without great teachers.
after watching the movie, my thoughts about education has been altered. The movie showed so many sides to one story, good teachers and bad teachers, and the fact that you cannot get rid of a bad teacher because of the contract, if you cannot teach, you shouldnt be a teacher. That charter schools are so much better yet only so little people can get into them, if they are so good, more children should be able to attend the schools. A big factor though is teachers, teachers are the ones that parents rely on to teach their child, we need great teachers and great schools, in the movie they showed families trying to get their kids into those great schools, we need our public schools to be just as good. Geoffrey Canada had made a point about whether kids are getting dumber each year or is it the school, to me I think that students are part of the problem as well, whether they choose to pay attention in class, do the homework and make a effort, as one of the kids had said he wasnt doing so good in school because he never came home and studied, but when he started studying he became a better student, but of course its up to the teachers to engage the students interest to help them make that effort. In the movie they showed a lot of examples that teachers get paid whether they teach or not, so if a teacher isnt teaching the students, the school is going to continue to fail the students. The whole point of education is to pass the students so they can go on to do great things we need teachers who are passionate and willing to do their job and not sit around to help those students pass and not be failures and drop outs and go to prison for the rest of their lives. With Fransico, his teacher had told his mom that he had trouble with reading, but yet she would work with him at home and read with him and he would do just fine, she had taken him to reading tutors who had said that he could read and knew what the words had meant, and yet his teacher refuses to communicate with his mom and send home his folder.
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