Analysis Of The Documentary Waiting For Superman

Schools aren’t benefitting from these tests anymore because students are just dropping out or not taking the test as serious. Districts are starting to close down schools because of low results of the majority of classes. The parents do not know what to do and can not help about this topic anymore since the government has enforced almost every school to take these standardized tests. Schools also depend on these tests greatly and are unable to notice the other skills and knowledge the students have. Are these standardized test really beneficial to the public school systems?

How true is that claim exactly? Yes, it is true that every child has a dream, but how many children are being left behind because they are stuck in poverty? There was one scene in the movie where the charter schools had to draw numbers just to give a child a chance at a better education. That is highly disturbing that a child has to suffer through something as humiliating as that. Our public system does not encourage academic growth, it hampers it.

Montgomery Blair High School has a discipline rule, where they fail students who show up to class late nine times, and students who were absences three or more times, without an excuse note. This new rule causes students to fall behind in their classes, and many students fail their class because they couldn’t make it on time. Students eventually stop coming to class because they believe that there is no use in coming to a class that they will fail because they were late. This new rule does not care if the students have a good grade or not, it just fails students who have three or more unexcused absences. There are many different ways to discipline students in a healthy way, then ways that will lead them to failures in the future.

High school dropouts have always been a problem in the United States, there are over 1.2 million students that drop out of high school each year. That’s a student every 26 seconds or 7,000 a day (2015). There are many reasons why students dropout of high school, it could be as simple as them individually not liking school to actually having a difficult life that gets in between their school studies. The top main reasons why students dropout is: lack of parent engagement, poor academic performances, work or family economic needs, lack of a supportive adult, disconnected between school academics and work, not enough individualized attention, and low student engagement. Almost one-half of African Americans, Hispanics, and Native Americans fail

Parental involvement can be a turning point in students’ lives and without it, students are less motivated to complete high school. Parents often miss the warning signs of students that are close to dropping out of school. In eighth grade, students becoming disengaged, absent more than twenty percent of the school day and failing English and Math. It has been estimated that by eighth grade, 64.5% of students are less than proficient in math and reading (Balfanz et al., 2014). In ninth grade, warning signs include having poor attendance and not being able to proceed to the next grade on time because of not having the appropriate amount of credits to complete the grade (Furger, 2008).

Dropout Age Students around the globe are dropping out of high school because they are disinterested or it is too aggravating for them. Many do not consider the effects of dropping out of any school without some sort of diploma. Instead, they make the choice without any knowledge of the effect it may take on having a successful life, which leads to more than a million dropouts each year. Dropping out of high school before receiving any sort of diploma leads to many negative impacts on the rest of one’s life such as not meeting job requirements or choosing the path of crime and as well as making a low income when it comes to jobs. When it comes to working, having a high school diploma helps with meeting job satisfactions.

“Nearly half (47 percent) said a major reason for dropping out was that the classes were not interesting,” (Bridgeland 3). They were bored and unmotivated. They also believed that the classes were irrelevant to real life experiences. “Thirty five percent said that failing in school was a major factor of dropping out; three out of ten said they could not keep up with school work; and 43 percent said they missed too many days of school and could not catch up,” (Bridgeland 3). Studies have shown that many of these students have low level reading skills, preventing them from keeping up with or under... ... middle of paper ... ...tart cracking down on their studies they will have a much better life ahead of them.

However its major issue is the amount of students. The school cannot administer effective teaching because of its size. The larger the class sizes the more chances for students to be distracted and their grade to suffer. The size of this school does not allow students to have a successful student-teacher relationship. ASU does see this problem but they have done a poor job handling it.

Derrick Wing Mrs. Spanos English 2 March 11, 2014 Students Argue That School Is Boring Have you ever been bored in school? The problem people have is that students are getting bored at school and ending up dropping out of school. About 30 percent of the students indicate they are bored due to lack of interaction with teachers and 75 percent report material being taught is not interesting. The causes of boredom are that there are not many teachers to help, not a lot of classes that are interesting, and the students think the classes are irreverent. The effects of boredom are that students fail there classes, they drop out of school, they distract other students so they do not learn, and they skip school because they do not want to be there.

Eighty percent of all high school students have been bullied online at least once in their lives in some sort of way. This percentage is intolerable and for it to have been going on for so long is not right. Not only is this percentage too high but it should not take this long for it to decrease if people out in the world are committing suicide over it. Another major reason students move or drop out of school is because of repeated bullying. Schools probably care less when a student leaves because the issue does not have to be dealt with anymore.