Consolidation of Schools: Combining Students from Different Schools

Manys of student in the country has been attend more than one school; different schools. I also has the experience as well. Three years ago, I spent my freshman years in Amarillo, Texas. The school was known as Tascosa High School. Amarillo is just the small cities in the state, that located in North of Texas. It’s a very small cities, but it has dense population. In 2013, I depart from that school, and lane in Southport High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. That a heavy transformation from there to here. My high school building in Amarillo was much smaller than in Indianapolis, but the school population was larger there. When Southport High School carries about 2,200 students, Tascosa has about 2,500 students in 2013. However, Southport

Carl Kaestle’s Pillars of the Republic focuses on the history of schooling. Kaestle writes about the common school movement in England, the Midwest, the South, and the American Northwest. Kaestle argues that common school systems, the tuition-based elementary school that served all children in the area, were continued and accepted due to the Americans’ commitment to the republican government, the assertiveness of native Protestant culture, and through the development of capitalism (1983, p. X).

Indian Boarding Schools, which began in the late 1870’s, were started to transition Native Americans from their traditional cultures and transform them into American citizens. By the 1900’s, there were 147 day schools on and off reservations in the Great Plains. Day schools were first built before the government decided that the children needed to be removed from their Indian lifestyle in order for total assimilation to occur. The first off-reservation boarding schools appeared around 1884 in the Great Plains. By 1890, 25 federal off-reservation and 43 on-reservation boarding schools were operating nationally. Many Indian families chose to send their children to boarding schools because there were no other schools available. After $45 million had been spent and 20,000 Indian children had been put into schools, the Commissioner of Indian Affairs William Jones put emphasis on the importance of utilizing existing boarding and day schools more effectively. Jones declared that the Indian children had shown little evidence of assimilation and introduced the idea for a hierarchy of schools in order to “provide the greatest opportunity for assimilating the best students with the greatest potential for surviving in the white world” (Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, par.8).

Teacher-training schools, then “normal schools,’’ experienced expansion after the Civil War. Kindergartens also began to gain strong backing.

Fewer electives will be able to take place such as music, and internship programs which future ready students for the future and opens their eyes to possible future careers. Along with all these changes, class sizes will increase. By a larger class size, teachers will not be able to focus on students as much individually causing students to gain a lack of care towards the class, and “cooperative learning and other more complex activities” will not be able to be done due to the fact with a large class size it is “just too difficult to manage” (Kelly). With the activities being decreased students may not be as attentive to their academics, drop out, or not even put thought into college. Many older and smaller schools have been forced to close down and join into a different newer and bigger school. This transition has put teachers out of jobs, and affect students by moving “to an unfamiliar setting [which] can be both mentally and emotionally draining” (Kelly). Teachers whose jobs are taken, or have decided to move to a different profession because of the lack of security for their job are majorly being affected, and also causing more job competition for others while applying for other jobs. The teaching profession is not one to rush into, with the uncertainty of where you may end up and the effect it may have on students.

The issue that causes the most tension at Westside Consolidated School District No. 5 is the school shooting. Many families moved out of the school district as a result and the district has not recovered fully from the departure of those business leaders and students. The projected growth is another community issue that is causing tension. The state of the district buildings and amenities is not on the level of our former rival Valley View nor our current rival Brookland and the district has few options to build new buildings, retain teachers, and offer new class curriculums for the student

Growing up, I attended a very small K-8 elementary school that due to its size became a very close-knit community. While a smaller school may provide a ton of advantages academically, the low class sizes also meant that cliques were very prevalent without there being many

The personal stories shared in the chapter provide a more extensive explanation as to why the state should reconsider consolidating the school. On page 52, the school’s coach describes the relationship between the school and community: “The school’s kind of a focal point; anything that happens in the community is going to happen in the cafeteria, or it’s going to occur here in the gym” (Tieken 2014). Another account describes the school’s value as “That cemetery dinner is not a school event; it’s a community event, but the school is the place to have it” (Tieken 2014, 53). The narrative provides evidence on the subject of building rapport between school systems and groups of individuals of Delight.

One of the earlier shifts in design resulted from the consolidation of one-room district schools in rural areas. Local elementary schools were first built just far enough apart to permit scholars to walk from their homes. Consolidation of population, the wide use of automobiles, and a reduction of the number of farm families made it possible to build United schools that were large and more efficient.

Before the educational reform there were very little public schools. If there was a public school in a town it was part time and only one room. Wealthy families could afford to send their children to private school or

The main goal of boarding schools was to civilize Native Americans. The federal government wanted to solve “The Indian Problem” by assimilating Native Americans into white culture and felt that education

When it comes to school size, there is no right size that works for every student. Some students thrive in a smaller environment where they get lots of attention, while others prefer the variety of activities and peer groups available in a larger school. Certainly, small and large schools each have their pros and cons. There are many reasons why this statement is true. One of the reasons why is if there are smaller schools they are gonna have smaller class sizes so there is more one on one with the students and teacher. Smaller schools are more lenient with test days and focus more on every student understanding the content.

School overflow has become a growing problem at Carver’s small campus. Currently, there are nine-hundred eleven students enrolled. This number is the most Carver has seen in recent years. The teachers have taken a notice in the increase of students in each classroom. In the past, there would be “no more than twenty kids in a classroom.” Now the school has classrooms where teachers have little space to walk in between each student. Not only teachers have noticed the increase in numbers, the students have too. In a poll taken by students attending Carver, only twenty-five percent of those who took the survey disagree that the school is

There were many issues that took place in these schools and in the system. There were not many schools and of those schools, many were over populated and had no proper resources. Many of the schools tried their best to provide their students with the best education and wanted to give students the freedom of choosing between the different types of schools.

Many parents feel their children are not being challenged enough in public schools. Some of these children are doing well but clearly could do more, could be stretched intellectually. From their parents' point of view, they spend far too much time watching television, wandering around the mall, or playing games on their computers. Many parents are consequently drawn to private schools because of the academic rigor that comes with smaller classes, more personal attention, and teachers who nurture and promote each child's talents. There is no question that private schools offer smaller classes than most public schools in the country. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 1998-99 the median student-teacher ratio in NAIS schools was 9 to 1 while that in public schools was 17 to 1. Smaller classes make it difficult for a student to hide or slide. In a room with only 14 other students, it is difficult to remain uninvolved or consistently unprepared. Teachers can get to know 15 students much better and faster than 30. Smaller classes promote more faculty member-student interaction, and most kids