Roeder 1
Jessica Roeder
Professor Williams
English 1A
October 1, 2013
Low achieving Schools
The schools in the book and in the Bay area seem to have the same thing in common. There are poorly funded schools, hiring and firing of teachers a lot, and a lack of materials for the students to achieve their highest potential. The hiring and firing of teachers constantly causes an unbalanced environment at the schools. Students are constantly getting new teachers and teachers are constantly jumping around from school to school not knowing what it’s like there, how to cope with it, and what kind of troubles the students face.
Plenty of schools are poorly funded because of their dramatically low test scores. The test scores in these schools do not seem to get any better and if they do it’s not good enough. In return the schools are getting poorly funded and there is a lack of necessary materials for both the students and teachers. Without these materials students are not able to achieve their highest potential because they lack the necessary materials in order to do so. Just as one of the teachers mentioned in the book, she has no choice but to use an old textbook to teach her class. There are many problems with this, textbooks are constantly changing with new learning material, what she’s teaching them could be very out dated and they may be missing information that they need to know.
In the book and in schools in the Bay Area there is a constant hiring and firing of the teachers. This also causes some difficulties for both the students and the teachers. Sometimes students have one teacher for part of the year and all of a sudden they get a new teacher. A teacher just gets thrown in there with a whole new class of students that he or she doesn’t even know and not knowing the certain students struggle with in that particular subject. This discourages both the students and the teachers in a big way.
