Segregation In Schools

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While segregation may still exist in the test score at school, it's it right to look at the school system and blame it for the gap in the demographic success in school? No, even though there is a massive influx of colored and non-white students into the school, it is not entirely the schools fault. If there is someone to blame for a student's low testing grades, look to the parents in their involvement in the students studying habits, and the teachers union.
Students need parents who are just as involved in the school system, and are just as willing to get the student that push. Students need parents who are active enough to nag the student reminding them to complete homework, study for tests, and remember due dates. While it is understandable …show more content…

While there are differences in white versus non-whites test scores, and average dropout rates, these have nothing to do with differences in education, all students are learning the same thing. However, the teachers have a major impact on the learning of students. This becomes key especially when students are stuck with bad teachers. While the school systems here in Plano allow for a student to transfer out of the class, which remedies this problem for a few, there are only so many spots one teacher can …show more content…

Former DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee said in 2008, "Tenure is the holy grail of teacher unions, but it has no educational value for kids; it only benefits adults.”The teachers union implemented the practice of tenure, which guarantees teachers their jobs, prevents the firing of experienced teachers to hire less expensive new teachers, and couples a costly expense in order to fire teachers. This becomes a serious issues especially if a lousy teacher has embedded himself in a high paying school job within one of the nicer neighborhoods keeps the school from hiring better quality teachers to replace them. Tenure also removes incentives for teachers to put in more than the minimum effort and to focus on improving their teaching. This practice has been making it harder and harder to fire teachers, for example “In a school district that has by any measure failed its students — only 28.5 percent of 11th graders met or exceeded expectations on that state’s standardized tests — Newsweek reported that only 0.1 percent of teachers were dismissed for performance-related reasons between 2005 and 2008” (2). Now it may not be fair to blame all of the students failing on the teachers, however twenty-eight percent is a ridiculously low number, and it’s the teacher's job to teach the student what they need to know to pass said