An Analysis of the Case: Lessons at Hard Rock High by Carrie Y. Barron Ausbrooks…
In his beginning years, Jesness believed in giving appropriate grades. However; once he started failing students, the principal and parents took notice. He soon found himself having a meeting with both over the given grades. He argued that the children received appropriate grades due to plagiarized work and forged assignments. For the next few weeks, Jesness was watched everyday by the principal. “Every spitball, every chattering student, every bit of graffiti was noted”, he says. Every time he sent a student to the office, it was just more “evidence” that “he could not handle a classroom.” Making it impossible for him to teach, Jesness left his teaching career for one year.…
During his first visit Sister Julia stated that the new school was sinking because of the roof was too heavy. According to the Post-Dispatch, Martin Luther King Junior High had been evacuated for the second time in the spring of 1989 because of sewage fumes, backed-up toilets, and sewage in the bathrooms, kitchen, and basement. Kozol discussed the topic of inequalities with students and administrators. He discussed inequalities in classes, with teachers, and with facilities. These black students are required to attend East St. Louis schools without the hope of being transferred or bussed to a better school. As a teacher stated only about 55% of the kids will graduate from school and from this 55%, maybe one out of four will go to college. As Kozol travels through East St. Louis High School, he finds that teachers are not able to teach properly because of the lack of proper materials. The science labs are outdated by at least 30 years, they lack of proper text books/no textbooks, no lab tables, understaffed rooms, etc. In this school a lot of the teachers do not care about teaching anymore and a lot of them are full time substitutes without proper qualifications. Which of course, leads to students not paying attention or not getting any encouragement or the push they need to succeed, or even care about going to, school. Kozol observed in a lot of the classrooms students sitting around talking to other student. In most cases the teachers were not able to teach, or unwilling to even try anymore. The school is so poor that it cannot even afford toilet…
She didn’t like her because she believed that she didn’t belong in this school, because she was black. She didn’t allow her to eat with any kids her age, she ate all by herself of sometimes with Mrs. Henry. The principal also sat in a class room all by herself with her teacher because she said she can’t interact with other kids. The principal also told Ruby’s teacher that she has to lower her test scores because it is not fair to the other kids, it wasn’t fair because ruby got more on eon one time. Then Mrs. Henry said then let her try to interact with white girls and boys he age, that it happened slowly and she started talking to them and started making friends.…
In the movie “Lean on Me” Principal Joe Clark gives a speech on the students who waste time at the school doing nothing but keep the others from learning, and corrupting those around them. That now he is removing all those who were in that group and concentrating on the others who are the key to improve this school. Which he explains that they must take a test that will help keep this school the way it is. By persuading them through fear of not succeeding in life, that they are responsible for what they do and how it affects them.…
Gary was more than proud of the fact that he gave his students a quiz everyday in his Latin class so that they would remember what they had learned the day before. Gary also wanted his students to apply what they were learning to the real world. While interviewing my grandfather he said, “In American Government, I never gave a student an A unless they did at least two ‘A projects’.” These “A projects” were simple things like interviewing a local politician or going to a town meeting. Gary confided that discipline had been the hardest part of being a teacher for him, but he always had the best strategy for dealing with rowdy students. His plan was extremely simple, “if a student would act up in class I would say, ‘that is a great point. Maybe you should stay behind after the bell so that we can discuss it’,” this phrase would make the color drain from even the worst troublemaker’s face. Unlike his co-workers when he first began working, Gary refused to yell at or hit any of his students. In his forty-two years of teaching, the idea of it never crossed his mind. Being a teacher takes a lot of patience, and just as his father always said, “just know you are smarter than the kids, and that you have more experience than…
The two essays, "The Sanctuary of School," by Lynda Barry and " 'I Just Wanna Be Average, '" by Mike Rose, are two essays concerned with children and the way a school system affects a child 's life. Barry and Rose use situations in their own life to help readers understand their point of view. The responsibility of parents, the assertiveness of their teachers, and the way they used their unique situations to help solve problems in our fallible society.…
The problem with Riverdale does not entirely lie in the school system, it lies in the surroundings around the school system. The drug invested streets and all of the violence makes it extremely hard for Riverdale schools to be a suitable place to get an education. Temptation surrounds the school system and it cannot escape from it. Not having a whole lot of disciplinary actions for unsuitable behavior also causes the school system to crumble away from the best, “The problem was that I wasn’t even showing up half the time,” (Moore 76). The author Wes Moore does not have the discipline for not going to his designated classes.…
In 1964, the author, Jonathan Kozol, is a young man who works as a teacher. Like many others at the time, the grade school where he teaches is of inferior quality, segregated, understaffed, and in poor physical condition. Kozol loses his first job as a teacher because he introduces children to some African American poetry that subtly questions the conditions of blacks in America. Years later, after holding many other socially conscious jobs, Kozol misses working with children. He decides to visit schools across America to see what has changed since those early days of reform. What he learns is horrible. Many schools have student bodies that are still separate and unequal. The remainder of the book details his observations over that year and suggests causes for this shocking state of affairs.…
Summary: In the story "I Just Want to be Average" by Mike Rose, Rose, talks about his his past schooling experience and how his experience at Mercy nearly ruined him as a student. He narrates his story of his peers in the vocational learning classes and how his teachers responded or failed to respond to their needs as students. The various situations Mike experienced all centered around one main thing and that was a lack of effort, by the students and teachers both.…
These teachers based their assumptions on family issues, lack of money, parent awareness, and language barriers. They assumed that parents who never went to college would not provide enough support for a first generation college student or how launage barriers put the student behind. I think it is wrong of them to make these assumptions because all students have the potential to go to college, but it is the education system and these sterotypes that are oppressing them and stopping them for pursuing their dreams. Many of these teachers assumptions were countered as many of these student’s parents fought against issues such as harsh punishments in recess when both the districts and faulty least expected them to. Aldente works to create confiaza in both the parents and teachers, but also includes the mentors.…
The schools are seen in contrasting close-ups. At Ridge, children like Bobby are learning elementary skills that may equip them to find jobs at places like McDonald's or a grocery store when the time comes. At Sparks the attempt is made, with the help of specialist, to bring the new pupil as close as he can come to the level of normal children of his age. I particularly find plenty of disagreements among parents and teachers about which children are being better served.…
My group members and I chose to take on this topic of issue because we felt like it was and still is mostly overlooked today. Furthermore, we as a group chose this topic because we all had different education backgrounds and we thought that it would be interesting topic to look up more information on. In the group, I was the only one who had a Catholic school background. I had never been into a public school until I came to William Paterson University. Unlike public school which was free, my mother paid tuition for me to have a good education. Catholic education has become a huge part of my life for many years. It is the reason today why my faith is powerful. At my elementary and high school, we would pray three times a day, and we would address…
“Wrong answer Laurran, do it again,” Mrs. Taylor raised her voice at me. The room went silent. Nobody was talking or moving, to scared to get scolded by Mrs. Taylor. I always wondered who would want to marry her, or how she treated her kids at home. I honestly feel bad for her two kids if she treated her own students this way. I sat there, my eyes tearing up from embarrassment and failure. Mrs. Taylor doesn't understand how hard it is; doing math that is a grade above your level of experience. She doesn’t understand the pressure that is on me from my parents to do good and from the older kids in my class to show them I’m not dumb and I can do this.…
It all began in my hometown Vallejo, California, a small city not far from San Francisco. As a young child, I enjoyed most of my youth and loved attending school. My naivety of the negativity around me did not enable me to see the issues within my own city. Vallejo was bankrupt, and continues to face great financial issues. The city’s monetary problems meant the educational system, and the people, suffered greatly. A flourishing city that once seemed promising turned bleak. I witnessed more families struggle, and the poverty rate increase. For me, I experienced the changed within the educational system. The teachers became overworked, unappreciated, and underpaid. Many of the instructors became detached from their students. Their sole teaching goal was to calm down an overpopulated room full of rowdy students, so they wouldn’t become overwhelmed by the screams and sorrows of the children. Even though the students’ boorish behavior became overwhelming, their “crying for help attitude” surely went unnoticed.…