Bad Neighborhoods Create Bad Schools

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BAD NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE CREATING BAD SCHOOLS Wasif Khan HSB4M: Challenge and Change in Society November 8, 2012 School: an Institution that educates people, most commonly children. An institution can mould individuals to adopt accepted societal values, norms and rules which allow us to become members of society. Education is a powerful tool in shaping the world. Therefore, schools have an immense responsibility of providing a rich academic atmosphere, as well as allowing them to succeed in their own different interests. However, all schools do not succeed in this, they may have a good faculty and mission to begin with but some fail. Schools that fail are regarded as “bad schools”. Who or what is responsible for this? Well, many bad public schools have known to be located in many inner – city neighborhoods. The people that enroll into these bad schools come from these neighborhoods which include gangs, families in the low – income cut – off line and families that are not well educated. The schools were not always awful. Therefore, bad neighborhoods create bad schools because of following factors: poverty, criminal activity, uneducated families and the psychological/emotional state of the students. Poverty is a huge factor that contributes to the effect of bad neighbourhoods on schools. These neighborhoods have many families with low – income jobs. The families must rely on welfare payments and their minimum jobs to provide for themselves which only covers their necessities. However, sometimes they may be unable to cover their necessities. Lower – class families tend to have many responsibilities that parents can not do because they need to work to earn money. Therefore, some responsibilities fall on the children or young teens that go to school. Responsibilities include chores and babysitting.[1] These students go to school with

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