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Lincoln High School, which is located in a low-income neighborhood in San Diego, was a rebuilt after 50 years of failing to educate children. Rebuilding the high school was the answer the community had been looking for they were hopeful. Before the rebuild most students who attended Lincoln did not meet the standards for their grade-level, few graduated and even fewer went go on to college. After years of suffering and neglect there was little doubt That Lincoln High School deserved the $129 million it received from the city to rebuild. But was rebuilding the school the solution for Lincoln High School 's education problem? First we’ll examine, How the problem started, the decision making steps and if the plan was successful.

While the most important purpose and goal of high school has ultimately remained the same, its factors have changed over the years. In the Articles, “Missing in Interaction,” written by Myra and David Sadker and “Savage Inequalities,” written by Jonathan Kozol, the authors introduce and include examples of the way education itself has changed other the years, as well as the goal that was set for it. Our system of education’s main purpose has been to educate children and help them with their future, but certain issues in regards to our system have not been given the attention that should be required.

In the attempt to persuade his readers in “Against School: How public education cripples our kids, and why”, John Gatto relied on his passion for education to express his thoughts. Having a bad experience as a teacher in our current school system, he believes that our system isn’t what it should be. He believes that our kids aren’t being educated. With the use of frequent rhetorical questions, personal experiences, and an appeal to ethos using other respectable men’s work, Gatto clarified his points about our schools in the America.

In Lynda Barry's essay “The Sanctuary of School” the author addresses the ongoing issue of funding for public schools in America. She is trying to persuade her American audience, such as the school board, and parents, that we need to keep the public schools. Barry is the perfect person to argue the importance of public schools and art and the children who attend them because she was one of those children. She is now a famous cartoonist and author, and she thanks her public school experience for her success. Her essay was intended for the people who believe they aren't important, people who work for school boards, maybe some parents, and the United States Department of Education. In “The Sanctuary of School,” Lynda Barry uses a sense of

Throughout the memoir, Moore portrays the value of education and how small judgments can shape one's life forever. Moore wanted the reader to know the value of having an education and how the choices you make from your childhood stick with you forever. A great example that Moore mentioned

Attending a magnet school which based its education in the arts I never realized how drastically different my curriculum was than that of other middles schools. The difference went beyond middle schools in my district or state, but affected me closer to home—at my high school. In middle school, education more frequently came from collaborative coursework rather than ‘traditional’ lesson plans. The transition to high school was difficult because it seemed that students focused on social status and school administration focused on standardized testing scores. When looking at my education compared to course readings, I have found that despite my two schools being in the same school district and city, they each proposed different notions as to how schools should be ran and what makes education valuable.

I am aware that there are better and worse high schools out there than Fremont High School. And yet, reading Kozol's account of the terrible conditions that are endured by these students made me feel more aware of the severity of improper or inadequate education that poorly funded schools provide. All of these problems, alongside my awareness of my fortunate years of education, make me wonder, just as Mireya did, as to why, "...[students] who need it so much more get so much less?" (Kozol 648). Interestingly, I have little to comment on Kozol's actual writing style, even though he wrote this account of his. I was just so attached to the characters within that school that I wanted to be able to reach out somehow; Kozol definitely achieved something very touching here.

The education system in Bayonne was also far from ideal, and Gaines shows the injustices Black children face versus their white peers. The students are forced to get down on their knees to use the benches as desks or do their work in their laps (36). The students are so incredibly disadvantaged that they do not even have desks to write on to do their work, whereas the White children presumably have a well furnished school. This clear distinction between children’s’ learning environments shows just how bad the racism in Bayonne truly was. They are merely innocent children and they are already treated differently from their white peers. Gaines describes Grant’s class to show readers the circumstances of the Black community in comparison to the White school district. Additionally, the school year, according to Grant is only,” five months, and when the children are not needed in the field” (36). Even though slavery had been abolished almost a century prior, the Black children were still deprived of a proper education due to the field work that they were forced to complete. Grant also has to attempt to ration his supplies, because the school board does not give him an adequate amount for the year and at one point tells a

Gruwell was the teacher of classroom 203. She had just begun her tenure at the school when the movie had started. She was excited about her career as a teacher; however, she was in for a rude awakening as none of her students cared about education. It was only through perseverance and dedication that she was able to change her students’ mind about education. For example, in the movie Gruwell had to buy books for her students, for the books in the curriculum were outdated and did not appeal to her students. Another example of Erin Gruwell’s dedication to her students was when she appealed the board of education to change school policy. Woodrow Wilson Classical High School had a policy that teachers must have more than two years tenure to teach juniors and seniors or distinguished honors programs. Erin Gruwell appealed to the board of education and won her case. Consequently, she was able to teach her students until they graduated from high

Public high schools tend to waste a lot of time in class doing things that aren’t related to school at all. It has been reported that in many schools, teachers make students do chores for them for extra credit points, while others are learning new things. Jay Mathews wrote “A startling waste of precious classroom time,” published in 2014 in the Washington Post, and he argues that so much time is wasted in low-income schools due to teachers and it makes it very difficult for students to learn in that environment. Mathews begins to establish pathos by stating the names of two girls that go to Compton High School and want to learn, but their school is unable to give them the education they desire. Mathews established ethos a little later in his article by stating facts about programs he has encountered with inner city schools; however, toward the end of his article, he uses facts to establish logos, which is the appeal of logic, while stating that schools have been sued because low-income students have not been given the right education.

As we are continually developing our educational systems, there are constant opportunities placed before us to further our education. In some cases, that definitely has not been the case. The way our education has been passed down to us today has created a deeper sense of knowledge and opportunity of growth in life. Today, we are given the chance to attend high school and for some, college. As we go through our daily life of obtaining such knowledge in 4 core concepts and other areas of our interests, we are constantly grasping modern essentials for living. Kristine L. Mackey wrote, “Another fortunate aspect for American citizens’ continued educational growth includes the government’s expressed support of the schooling system via subsidized education programs. The government accounts for the funding of education programs in its annual budget.” Our education today is literally handed to us, as we constantly spend our time in one dreadful school. But when we compare to other places across the world, they aren’t as fortuitous as Wyoming students are. In the excerpts from “Hard Times” by Charles Dickens and “Jane Eyre” by Charlotte Bronte, the Victorian Era is used to create a superb lesson to obtain on the development for our education over time.

I was sitting in my favorite seat, in my least favorite class, feeling more uncomfortable than usual. It wasn’t the awful uniform, even though I despised wearing a uniform; it was because it was ‘pick a reader day’ and I was one of the worst readers in class. I never considered myself a “dumb kid.” I knew I was smart in my own way, but that didn’t matter in Miss Kellogg’s second grade English class.

Jonathan Kozol, who is an American writer, best known for his books on public education in the United States wrote about the condition of which students at a public high school in Los Angeles were going through. In his essay, “Fremont High”, Kozol informs us of how students success was being affected because of the lack of well-equipped classrooms, as well as necessary classes to help them succeed in college. Kozol starts off with a vivid description of the classrooms he was visiting. He describes the conditions of these classrooms by saying that “nearly a third of all the classrooms in the school, were located in portables…in converted storage closets – “windowless and nasty (713).” This is important because it gives the readers an opportunity to picture

When we arrived at Douthitt High School as freshmen, the buildings in our school showed the signs of their 40 years of age. It might be hard to think back to that time when there was a landscaped yard in front of the cafeteria instead of a concrete courtyard, and when the grassy knoll our students enjoy on a rare sunny day didn't exist. After a few noisy years of construction, we now have a modern school. In our time here, it has gone through a complete change from old and mature, to fresh and new. We, on the other hand, have gone from being fresh and new high school students, to old, experienced, mature young adults ready to graduate.

Teaching high school in the late twentieth century is a complex matter. As a secondary English teacher, my classroom is much more than discussions of novels, plays, poems, and the memorization of numerous grammar rules. The high school has become a site of contention: it's where students make decisions that create their futures. The educational system/community expects secondary teachers to find a happy medium between the order and disorder found in both the elementary/middle schools and the worlds of college and beyond. This essay discusses how knowledge and power are created, communicated, and eventually assessed in secondary classrooms. High school teachers often rely on a highly