The analyst and speakers think they are right. They always quick to judge. They say that the young people today don't care about their education and everything that go wrong is all our fault. That's not true the children just have a lot going on around them that they have to deal with. Most people would say that the problems surrounding them should motivate them to better. Everybody don't deal with their problems the same way, some build walls and lash out. They realize it but they are hurting their self in the end. In chapter 2 of "our school sucks" the students express their self in their journals. In their journals they confess to what they been doing and the fact that they do care but nobody would be able to tell because they build walls and hide their true feelings because they don't want to show everybody their vulnerability. They blame their self but it is not entirely their fault. If you had to attend a school with over crowded classrooms where
there isn't enough books for everybody that wouldn't motivate you at all. The analyst don't look at all that they just look at what statistics show them. Those statistics is not a good source of information because the statistics do not show evrything just numbers. What could a number tell you, nothing. They should talk to the students and get the real deal of what's going in schools from someone going through it every day of their life
Meisha
there isn't enough books for everybody that wouldn't motivate you at all. The analyst don't look at all that they just look at what statistics show them. Those statistics is not a good source of information because the statistics do not show evrything just numbers. What could a number tell you, nothing. They should talk to the students and get the real deal of what's going in schools from someone going through it every day of their life
Meisha
Nice job. Remember the Bill Cosby quote? "50% drop out rate!" That's a statistic, and it's probably pretty accurate (though we can questions how much of that is drop out versus push out through suspensions and expulsions for non violent behavior). So, that's a statistic, the problem comes in how it's interpreted and what people think it means. Lots of policy-makers think it means that students don't care about school so they decide to stop going. Well, as we're seeing and as lots of the students in this course seem to think, that's not an accurate understanding of the whole high school drop out phenomenon. So, the stats tell us one thing, but exactly what they tell us and how they're interpreted are the points of contention.
ReplyDeleteNice job.