You can throw millions of dollars at these schools.
i have a question. but do you think that if students become better educated eventually when they have their own families then they can raise them better? right? the parents problems usually stems from lack of education so if the kids become educated then when they become parents they will be better than the last generation and society would be better off
Originally Posted by heatpinoyboy
I feel it is a mix of both under-funding and the impact of where you grow up/what you do after school. I go to a school that is pretty much a wreck with disgusting facilities, lack of textbooks, lazy and unqualified teachers. The list goes on and on. I'm glad that these students took some sort of action instead of just taking it day by day until they graduate and get out.
I'm not sure how we can change what happens at home, but I know we can improve our schools by actually employing teachers that CARE and provide the materials to teach better (or we can dream). Student self-efficacy for their own education is lower when their teachers don't give a crap about them, and we can make the first step to fixing that by surrounding students with positive influences at school and show these kids that your education is important and that we WANT to see you succeed.
However...we always have those kids who just don't give a **$$
From freshman to senior year, nobody at our school really gave a dam about us and where we would go after high school. Sure, they would tell us things like "don't fail your class" or "don't skip class," but it all felt robotic...There was no real interest in what we do, and I've seen many peers fall to laziness because of it. If nobody expects anything out of you, why go above and beyond?
This.
