Response to Class standards and practices

The debate that we had in class got me very fired up. I hate the way the public school system is set up that funding is needed to supply schools with the resources they need. These resources need to go to the schools with the lower test scores in order to improve the results otherwise this vicious cycle will just repeat over and over, with failing grades and an insufficient standardized scores.

This now brings me to the argument of teaching to the test and how much of a pointless exercise this seems to be. These tests need to be geared more toward the curriculum of a school or teachers need to find a way to bring their style of teaching to the test. There needs to be a way for teachers to remove the material from the pages of the test and bring it into the classroom.

While funding is needed for schools to be successful it is needed more in urban schools to succeed and remove the negative connotation from the name urban. If schools that the government have classified as urban received more funding for tutors and technology to support it’s students so they can actually take something from the classroom. Instead there are students in classrooms being drilled for hours on end to take a test that will allow the school to test better next year while not taking into account this year.

This is me wrapping up with the No Child Left Behind Law and how it is brought into all of this. If a child could be “left behind” the public school system would have no problem allowing a child to learn and understand the material. Instead in the over sensitized society that we now live in it is imperative that as a country we do not discourage or classify a child to their knowledge and treat everyone as if nothing was wrong. It is like we are pretending or that we are hiding it that there is a problem and it NEEDS to be changed, other wise this problem will continue to pain our education system.

someone needs to come up with a change, with a solution to fix the problem...Rock on, Luke