Unfathomable Bread Research Paper

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Unfathomable Inches Root causes of the culture gap between home and school for America’s poorest children Ako Onyango Coppin State University 2012 To open the movie 300 there was, glossed over, the revolting revelation of a barbaric practice of the culture being glorified there. It involved the inspection of all newborns by officials who would make immediate, unalterable, decisions about an infant’s fitness to join the society. The alternative, if found unfit, was a grizzly postpartum abortion. The idea that otherwise healthy children should be casually hurled from a cliff at the whim of an elitist society persists today, policy makers sit in judgment, and that cliff, the status quo they help maintain. In under privileged…show more content…
Laura Lefkowits, in her article From Equity to Adequacy adds... “An important first step for education leaders and policymakers is to help their communities define not only what they want students to know and be able to do, but also how much they are willing to pay to achieve these goals.” How much are we willing to pay? The bottom line is really the front line. When schools struggle to keep books on shelves, struggle to attract and maintain quality staff, while simultaneously fighting off censure and upheaval due to poor historical performance, all in a dilapidated building with overcrowding issues, it is impossible to consistently have adequate outcomes much less high ones. These factors, when interpreted by an ever wisening populous, become a catalyst for the neighborhood’s ambivalence toward the school’s stated mission. So pervasive does this ambivalence become that citizens turn away from the idea of classical education as a real means of upward mobility. Some, desperately clinging to the hope that their children would transcend their own station, have circumvented the system's geographical boundary table, opting to send their children (legally or otherwise) to better, out of zone, schools. The resistance these concerned parents face from faculty and fellow parents in better prepared zones highlights the divide in opportunity from one area to another. Some line-hopping parents have faced stiff fines, imprisonment, summary ejection and other censures aimed at deterring further territorial aggression by the less fortunate. Such battles confirm the feeling that the much vilified "they" would rather poor students stay in poor schools receiving a poor education; provoking the hopelessness which undermines a parent’s ability to perform a key function of their leadership role,
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