Los Angeles public schooling is at an all time low. For the past half-dozen years, not even one in five students in the East L.A’s district’s teeming high schools has been able to do grade-level math or English. For the continuous failing of schools like these, the “No Child Left Behind law,” now up for change by Congress, requires drastic measures such as: firing teachers and principals, shutting schools down and turning them over to a private firm, a charter operator or the state itself, or a major repair in authority.
More than 1,000 of California’s 9,500 schools are branded chronic failures, and the numbers are growing. The need for change is becoming necessary and must come by 2014 when the law requires universal math and language proficiency. California is not the only state with problems. It is followed by Florida, Maryland, and even New York. California citizens’ groups have sued the state and federal government for failing to deliver on the law’s promises. The problem is that there are simply too many schools not producing adequate education, but they cannot be closed due to the demand of the number of youth. “A federal survey last year showed that in 87 percent of the cases of persistently failing schools, states and school districts avoided wholesale changes in staff or leadership.” Under the No Child Law schools are asked for more, as the performance drops over a couple of years.
The community needs to take the load rather than the state. It all has to do with those in charge not only of the hiring but of the teaching of each subject. If a teacher is not able to teach a student, a student simply will not be able to learn the material adequately. Although, a student must take their classes seriously. More emphasis should be put on education.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/education/16child.html?pagewanted=2&hp
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matt dayyyyyyyy
i agree that the educational system in Los Angeles is quickly diminishing, however, i do not believe that it is up to the community to fix that issue. it is truly the governments issue to get in the school system and fix the problems because our tax dollars go straight to waste if the system is not cleaned up in order for adequate education.
=]stef
matt dayyyyyyyy
i agree that the educational system in Los Angeles is quickly diminishing, however, i do not believe that it is up to the community to fix that issue. it is truly the governments issue to get in the school system and fix the problems because our tax dollars go straight to waste if the system is not cleaned up in order for adequate education.
=]stef
This topic really scares me because kids that come from LAUSD schools are the future. We at Chaminade are too, but the few of us are completely outnumbered by public school kids. I agree that the community needs to step up and re assert ourselves, because we tend to ask too much of the state. Their are other priorities to be tended to and if we want to see a noticable accomplishment then sometimes we have to get things done ourselves. I have seen some of the work kids at El Camino do, and some of it is what I was doing in 3rd and 4th grade. I kid you not, with out exaggeration, these kids are undoubtably receiving less education than we are. This makes me sad, because if we all feel so strongly about equality of opportunity, then why are we allowing this to take place? Teachers need to be more interesting, parents need to be more demanding, and faculty need to be more understanding. Changes need to be made, or else our future will lose its luster!!!
The problem with education today is a problem of the parents. It is a parent's responsibility to instill discipline and direction in their children's lives. I do not mean that parents should dictate what happens in their child's life, but that parents are, especially at a young age, the most influential aspect of educational direction. A child that is genuinely inspired to learn can learn even in environments where it seems like success is unlikely.
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