“Bullying is a big problem that effects millions of students, and it has everyone worried, not just the kids on it’s receiving end” (Lyness 1). Bullying does not just affect kids, but the parents too. It affects the parents because a lot of their children begin to be afraid attending school. In the novel Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Melinda was affected by being bullied lead her to think about suicide, scared of coming to school, and victims like Melinda begin to not care about school and fail. Melinda was affected by being bullied and led to many things and one of them is thinking about suicide.
At home families' traditions, discipline styles, attitudes toward education, and prejudices are very different. ELL students are forced to cope with many changes new country, new home, new school and how their family decides to deal with living in a new country. If their family decides to try to assimilate to the American way and stop practicing their native traditions this creates an added stress for the child. At school ELL students struggle to learn a new language and the social expectations of their teachers and peers. The sociocultural pressures are increased if they do not have any other students from their native land in which to interact.
The environment that Miss Sun and her students walk into everyday has turned into a prison instead of a learning place. These children are seen as the rejects of society who are physically imprisoned by metal detectors and mentally imprisoned by their personal surroundings. The educational system fails children like them. Although Malcolm X High isn’t a real school, the problems that they face are present in many public schools. Due to all of these reasons the students in the play feel as though they are prisoners; Jerome: We treated like convicts Ms Sun: How do you mean?
Greg, on the other hand, was having serious academic problems at school and consequently couldn’t do what he most wanted: play in the basketball team. Actions are preceded by a series of events. Greg’s bad grades precluded him from playing with the basketball team and Mike’s moustache caused his grandmother to confuse him with his grandfather. The conditions of Mike from “The Moustache” and Greg from “The Treasure of Lemon Brown” influence them when they faced the main problem. So, the next time you take a decision, be sure it’s
JeBari Lewis May 30, 2015 The children featured in Waiting for Superman are the epitome of the issues that plague their communities negatively affecting their education. Personal issues and a flawed education system go hand in hand. Personal issues that each of the featured children faced was crippling poverty. Their situation was made more dire by the fact they were surrounded by uneducated people who had often resulted to crime as a means to elevate their position in life or drugs to escape the reality of their position in life. Their impoverished communities resulted in less taxpayer dollars to fund the school which in educating the students would be able to provide the children with a chance at succeeding and eventually funneling
When a person detaches themselves from society, like Skrzynecki at his college, they will soon begin to feel alienated and neglected. This perception is also present in Freedom Writers, a film based on a true story about a young teacher named Erin Gruwell who inspires her class of students to learn to overcome the idea of isolation which they are creating within themselves, due to racism which they have been exposed to from a young age. The concept of belonging is represented through the use of racial groups and gangs and is linked with cultural and social aspects of
She struggled with school like I have sometimes. She refuses to speak most of the time and she misbehaves in ways to try to give meaning to her life or to avoid the pain she feels deeply. Her grades start dropping and she loses interest in almost everything. I had to keep a secret once. A secret I felt like I couldn’t tell anyone because of the fear that if I told my whole family would hate me.
Lac is it good or the bad students. Many students would agree that it is bad for the student because it teaches them that when they grow up they should be unfair and unreasonable. They will do the same thing to other teens once they are adults, and adults and teens will forever be unhappy with each other. This would also make students lack intelligence because all that time they would be in LAC they could be learning their subject. It will also cause stress for the students because they will have a hard time learning there subject.
Middle school was the worst years of my school career. It is a place where one cannot be true to who they are. Whether it be because they haven’t established their own style or they are scared of other students thoughts. In addition it is the transition from elementary to a school with the whole town, not just the kids who lived in your area. A lot more responsibilities are expected from us at such a young age, yet we are still very immature.
It’s sad to see such tragedy happen in places such as schools a place where us as students is suppose to feel safe as in a home away from home and is now a place of fear. Nowadays students go to school not knowing if their going to make it home safe. This just goes to shoes the effect that a gun has on certain individuals, for some it can change their lives drastically in a second. Some learn from their mistakes and some don’t and the ones who don’t learn anything are the ones who have a problem mentally. This horrifying shooting took the lives of ten students including the gunman life.