Teaching Tolerance In America Summary

U03a1 Essay Rough Draft, Summary & Response
ENG1000
January 28, 2013

In the writing, “Teaching Tolerance in America”, it argue how the schools struggles through education. Some schools are doing away with graduation test and just completed the end of the course tests. There have been several school that have had issues with passing there graduation tests, violence, sexual activities, social, and the media (Devlin, 2011). The writer, Devlin, (2011) argues that America is the land of opportunity, the land we can be judged. I agree with the author 100%. Today’s world should be better than it is, we should have better behavior in schools or any public place. When I was attending high school, the class size was maxed; kids today are dropping out of school or having issues within the school. Within the last couple of months we
have had massive shooting in schools, maybe it’s because the person have had problems with someone within the school district or another student at the school. The things that tends to be an issue is bullying in the school, standardized testing, and no child is left behind. These three things are big issues in schools today.
Many of these drastic measures of bullying have results in suicide and/ or murder.
Van de Kolk, McFarlane, and Weisaeth (2007) explain, “Trauma in childhood can disrupt normal developmental process.” Because of their dependence on their caregivers, their incomplete biological development, and their immature concepts of themselves and their surroundings, children have unique patterns of reaction and needs for intervention.
Many of the children who are affected by traumatic stressors such as bullying can have their developmental processes and part of their affected by traumatic events (Ziegler, 2002). If the president has taken a strong stance on the issue of bullying, he stated, “We’ve got to dispel this myth that bullying is just a normal of passage” (Anderson, 2010). Many researcher and educators have theories about why bullying occurs. As Wolk (2010) noted, “Bullying are about power and control, and confronting the person that is bullying you. Many schools have been dealing with bullying within the schools lately. There have been cases where the students have killed themselves because they could handle being bullied. 48 percent reported being harassed in some way (Anderson,
2011). President Bush passes the law of No Child Left Behind in 2002 of Jan (2004).Issued warning that 82 percent of schools would be labeled “falling”. The numbers didn’t turn out quite high, but some states did see failure rates over 50 percent (McNeil, 2011). No child left behinds mean that the government and schools helps students accomplish their goals. They try to better their education by having tutoring classes and other benefits. Every students deserve to have an education, without and education, there isn’t no future for no education. Some schools are required to keep track of how students are doing and to see what they need to improve before they make their next step. When the law passed, teachers had to become highly qualified, they had to have a graduate degree. Many standards have caused students to give up and don’t look back. Testing has increasingly become a decidedly political issue. Testing in schools was a major topic in the news and political world. Intelligence and ability are measured within each student that attends a school. Each standardized test is scored by a machine, but they are created by humans. Most of the tests are multiple choice examinations, and the test also has an open ended or free response question. Every student is timed because it gives them the ability to work under pressure and the ability to work quickly. Cheating on tests has become phenomenal; many teachers within Georgia have been caught helping students on their graduation test. Oh course, they were punished for what they done. Each one was without pay and was terminated at the end. By helping students with their work, how that supposed to help students achieve their goals? It does not help in any kind of way, in fact, it harm them because they not learning the information on their own. They have to learn from their mistake, by making their own mistake themselves.

Reference

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McNeil, M. “Are 82% of Schools ‘Falling’ Under NCLB, as Duncan Warned?” Education Week, Aug. 3, 2011. Retrieved from www.edweek.og/ew/issues/no-child-left-behind/ van der Kolt, B.A., Weisaeth, A.C., & McFarlene, L. (2007). Traumatic Stress: The effects of overwhelming experience on mind, body, and society. New York: The Guildford Press.
Ziegler, D. (2002). Traumatic experience and the brain. Phoenix: Acacia Publishing, Inc.