The top 1% doesn’t have to worry
about their kids struggling in class because they have the resources (money) to
get the proper help. The privileged take it for granted that they have less
stress than the society living in the ghetto. Thus the kids going to school
with more money get into the better universities. Students in poverty worry
about greater things than what they learn in school. Their needs to be a
radical change in the way education systems are funded throughout the state; it
is not fair that funding is dependent on test scores. Those who control funding
need to take into consideration what kind of environment the school is
surrounded by and how one school should get more than the other. Colleges and
other institutes are not equally giving everyone a equal chance in letting
people into there school. How can someone prepare to take the SAT when they
don’t have the money to pay for expensive prep programs? On the other hand wealthy communities have an
upper hand on being able to provide all the support needed to achieve higher
scores. Schools that have “smarter” students are over represented in society.
1. How is SAT’s equal thing for measuring then?
2. Should
there be a different way of funding?
3. How
can teachers shape their way of teaching toward different groups of students?
I agree with you, lower class students have more on their plate than the kids living in better areas. It's hard to decide weather to fix the schools first or to take care of other problems in the city that are just as urgent.
ReplyDeleteI think that money for schools and education systems should be spread out more evenly so that people in low income communities have just as much of an opportunity to learn as others. From what I've experienced I really just think SATs are a way of measuring how well a person is at test taking. I think they are an okay way of measuring peoples' intellect, aside from language barriers. What way would you propose to test peoples' knowledge?
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