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Home : 2005 : Mar : 30
i understand your point....
By jess
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i guess more of what i was trying to get at isn't that impoverished students are bad students, but rather impoverished school districts are unable to provide as many opportunities and therefore often have more discipline problems. a big issue for me is the huge disparity in wealth from one school to another. for example, the school i referenced as one of the worst i've worked in was also probably my favorite. and it was extremely upsetting to see these kids with so much potential, but no outlets for it due to the lack of funding in their districts. i remember the teachers one day talking about one graduate who had left the town, went to college, and got a great job. that was an atypical success story. now i live in a suburban area where the schools provide so many opportunities. one high school is nicknamed "the taj mahal;" students in this school can choose from a myriad of elective courses. class sizes are small. every classroom has several computers. they have something like 94% of graduates going on to college. it's just not fair. and when i say that, i don't mean it in the way we hear kids say it when we tell them to do their work, i mean, it's really unfair that just because one kid lives in a poor area he doesn't get the chances that others do.
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