The janitor, who is the narrator of the story, observes all the obstacles that the school and students have faced over time. The school has many problems to deal with such as, holes in the wall, broken bathrooms and unreliable staff and students. Miss Sun comes to teach at this school in hopes to help these kids succeed and realize their full potential. The educational system that is put into play throughout the story is meant to highlight all the mistakes that stop children from advance learning in today’s educational system. The environment that Miss Sun and her students walk into everyday has turned into a prison instead of a learning place.
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.
Major companies built factories here and drain their waste into the city causing the children who live here to be at risk for many illnesses. The drainage problem is so bad the toxins and sewage washes into the schools. The students here lack certain amenities that “white schools” have. They are in need to books, chalk, and even hand soap and toilet paper. When Kozol travels to North Lawndale and sits in on a kindergarten class, the statistics are sad.
In my own experience, I applied in 40 plus different hospitals all over the United States of America, without any particular position, no particular choice of shift, and with a willingness to relocate closer to the target job. Surprisingly, I was not able to find any new grad position for nine months after passing the NCLEX. Most of the hospitals do not even offer that new grad residency program Taylor was talking about in her article. Almost 80% of the time, in my search for a job, hospitals require at least one year of experience to be hired; and if ever they offer a New Grad job, they prefer the Bachelor degree, “not” the Associate degree that I have, unlike what Taylor said on her article that University of Tennessee Medical Center (UTMC) are looking for “varying” degree and backgrounds. If not for my mom who knew someone from Hemet Valley Medical Center, I would still be looking for a job right now.
Junior was born with too much fluid around his brain which caused him to have a big head. Junior describes himself as slender, with big feet and hands. For this reason, his peers called him “orbit”. Next, Junior finds his mother’s name on a geometry book that he is supposed to be using for his own geometry class. “My school and my tribe are so poor and sad that we have to study from the same dang books our parents study from; that is absolutely the saddest thing in the world”.
Analysis Today I have read the reading Against School by John Taylor Gatto.The school is not almighty, the system of the school isn’t that water-tight. John Taylor cover prop who has 30 years of teaching experience, the teacher, in New York State Teacher of the Year that year could not understand the school system for the constraints of human development, deprivation, and even violence, "Wall Street Journal" on public issued a letter of resignation from speech for school reform and running. "Schooling really work? "That is, of negation and declared war on the United States education system. What is the school?
Studies have shown that if two thousand students sign up for the fall semester at the end of the fall semester there is one thousand nine hundred and ninety students left. There is a 99% chance that if you sign up for the fall classes that you will still be in them at the end of the semester. The ten students that dropped out of classes most likely dropped out because of financial reasons, medical reasons, or they weren’t doing their duties as a student to be on class on time and study for tests, not because of the opposite gender. The opposite sex should not be affecting the retention rates. Students are not missing class to go scope out the opposite sex and to spend all day with them not attending any of their classes.
Every ones talking about cranky teens when in reality we are just over stressed and not getting enough sleep. These days it seems like teachers are having competitions with each other to see who can give the most homework therefore; students are having a hard time doing extracurricular activities and balancing homework all in one night. All of these issues have one cause to blame and that my friend is homework. And that is why as students, we believe that homework should be abolished. Life of a student is a very stressful one, as you drag yourself to school around 7:40 you desperately try to find friends that have completed a large sum of the mound of homework we were given the day before.
In the article Stop the Madness, written by Diane Ravitch, she elaborates on the issue of exceptionally high test taking. Teachers teach towards their test and as a result, are lazy. These faculty members, especially the teachers, worry more about the final test scores their students receive than if their students are grasping and fully understanding the educational topics. This is because the test grades that the students earn is how teachers are judged and ranked in the system. Therefore, in order to achieve these ideal scores, they are using the same tests and classwork every year.
The seniors, prepar for their final examinations, stay later even until 10:00 at night. Second, the class also are huge different,coursein China is standard nation-wide. They don't have choice to select class they want. But in American there lot more choice to offer. Also in China, fine art they don't think it important.