Three main reasons for this decline were lack of facilities, uninterested administration, and scheduling. The middle school saw three different principals in six years, and four different assistants. Not a single administrative leader had a desire to see the arts grow. In fact, seven years ago, one administrator took the room designed as a band room, with storage space, practice rooms, office, exterior access for evening rehearsals, and sound-proofing, away from the band and gave it to a math teacher. The band classes were sent to a building away from the main school, in a suite of rooms not designed for music, much less band classes.
This is the third week of school, and Matt’s teacher has already talked to his mother about having him tested for special education because Matt’s teacher says that he is reading below his grade level. Karen is Matt’s mother, and she refuse to have him tested for special education because she believes that it is too early for him to be tested for special education. She said that this is one reason why she agreed to have me work with her son. Matt is not a very willing person at all he is very stubborn. I asked Matt if he could come and sit at the table with me, so that we could read together.
These closing are all due to a lack of funding from the state. Yet all three states have adopted the state lottery as and aide to support public schools. Everyday our children’s education is being overlooked as the states pockets get bigger. Where is the money going? It can’t be on the roads…New Orleans has some of the worst roads in America.
Prayer in public schools is a controversial topic that has taken top-billing on many of Americans minds. In the article, Banning Prayer in Public Schools Has Led to America’s Demise by Gary Bergel states in the first paragraph, “On June 25, l962, 39 million students were forbidden to do what they and their predecessors had been doing since the founding of our nation – publicly calling upon the name of the Lord at the beginning of each school day.” Bergel is attempting to state that America has decreased in morals since this date as well as forbidding prayer at that time. These are the first two incorrect points of this article. They are by no means the only ones but these will be the two major points of contention addressed. First, the date Bergel uses is in reference to the court case of Engel V. Vitale in New York.
If I would invest the time needed to organize I would have received a better grade. English has never been my forte in high school; I failed one whole semester because I was infected with senioritis. My mentality was that I didn’t HAVE to do anything because graduation was just around the corner, but boy was I wrong. This set of mentality pushed me back in my senior year and it prohibited me from enjoying my last year as my friends were living it up at all the parties while I was home finishing up my online class as a result of my failure. Online classes required self determination and a lot time.
One principal describes the Common Core testing as “torture” (Source F). One teacher had only 23 students opt out and at least 3 times that number in tears. The teacher herself could not even answer twenty-five percent of the questions on the exam. The tests had readability levels far beyond what was appropriate, with questions that were vague, wordy, designed for trickery–not accurately measuring if children understand the texts they are reading. They were also far too long for the students to complete.
Moreover, he claims that most child psychologists and child development experts urge that a child does not watch any TV whatsoever before the age of 2 or 3. However, an immensely 43% of parents sit their child down in front of the television set as if blind to the effects that it results in. In addition, he provides more research explaining the controversial connection between the “boob tube” and lack of achievement in school. Implying from the article, “Silent that idiot box!” by Jeff Jacoby, in 2007, Researchers at Columbia’s College of Physicians and Surgeons came up with the conclusion that 14-year-olds who on a daily basis watched one or more hours of television “were at elevated risk for poor homework completion, negative attitudes toward school, poor grades, and long-term academic failure.” Along with the ones who watched three or more hours a day where at more risk of “subsequent attention and learning difficulties,’’ and were unlikely to pursue a college career. Jeff Jacoby (2009) Grohol also provides a link from the University of Michigan Health System which informs that children who watch TV are
Misdiagnosed Children all over the country are prescribed Ritalin to relieve a so called disorder called Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or ADHD. There is no solid evidence that ADHD is a genuine disorder, or disease of any kind. Perfectly normal children are bored at school, they wiggle too much, or just because they need a little more attention at home from their parents. Many children that are put on this medication are very smart and misdiagnosed because of other health problems and eventually get addicted after long-term use of the medication Bruce Wiseman, National President of the citizen’s commission on Human Rights, stated that “thousands of children put on psychiatric drugs are simply smart”. “They’re hyper not because their brains don’t work right, but because they spend most of the day waiting for slower students to catch up with them.
The church encourages couples to stay together and even provides counseling and support for struggling couples, but the consequences have changed. Like society, many churches have flourished and have so many members it would stifle the population of a small town. Couples just don’t stand out in their community or church anymore and wouldn’t suffer the social consequences of the past. Divorce itself has become the biggest problem. Just like children abused by their parents that in fact grow up to be abusive themselves.
By high school only a third take gym class daily, according to the National Association for Sport and Physical Education. And it's not like most kids are making up for lost gym classes by working out on their own time. More than 60 percent of children aged 9 to 13 do not participate in any organized physical activity during their non-school hours and 23 percent do not engage in any free-time physical activity at all (Huberty, 2012). The phasing out of physical education comes at a time when doctors are warning educators and parents about the dangers of child obesity and other health issues. Meanwhile, researchers are beginning to provide the relationship between fitness and excelling in school.