Cause Teacher absences connect with the amount of care and effort they put into their teaching or dealing with their students. The schedules for a student’s classes is very important. Messing this part of the student’s high school career can affect their future decisions and cause them to enjoy school. For example, Jefferson High School, which is located in Los Angeles with a high poverty rate, students walked out to protests due to a scheduling malfunction. This caused them to lose days of instructional time. Those days of instructional time lost could have been useful for the students. They could have learned countless information during the time of the riot. Riots are usually many people and not only a handful. Seeing as how Jefferson High …show more content…
Jefferson High School not only messed up the student’s schedule but also messed up and caused an interruption in their learning. Teachers/Counselors aren’t the only ones to blame for the interruption in a student's learning. Standardized Test also play a huge role in why students going to school that are in impoverished communities are wasting their time instead of learning. “ Standardized test do not improve student achievement… Instruction time is being consumed by monotonous test preparation” (procon.org). Meaningless tests are to blame for why students don't learn as much and the waste of time spent trying to prepare for a test that isn't even going to help improve a student’s academic achievement. Education is about learning and extending that knowledge to help you improve and gain more information about certain subjects. Spending time trying to prepare for a standardize test can waste a student's time and is the cause for student losing so much instructional time. There is, obviously, some pros to taking standardized tests. “Standardized testing gives teachers guidance to help them determine what to teach students and when to teach it. The net result is less wasted instructional