Detroit Public Schools Disadvantages

There has been many attempts to solving this problem, on all different types of levels. Local levels with committees and coalitions such as The Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren have been striving towards a solution. For a strong coalition, there needs to be adequate human resources. This means the number of people involved and the power of the people involved (Graham, 181). The Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren has regular citizens such as concerned parents, people on the school board, and also people with connections to higher powers. On the state level, there is Governor Rick Snyder putting more emphasis and promoting more blue collared jobs that only require skills training. Since this problem exists throughout the nation and crosses state

The situation with Detroit Public Schools has been taking turns for the worse. Every day it seems like something is adding up to the pile of Detroit Public School District issues. DPS has been considered as “The Worst School District” in the country. DPS have been struggling to improve the school district, The district has been trying for decades as nothing has been working. Detroit Public Schools main issues that need to be tackled down includes: unhealthy environments, oversized classrooms, and the district’s unbalance of power.

Schools is terrible. The teachers of Detroit aren’t exactly helping with the state of Detroit’s

Students should not not go to school because they don’t have enough money, they should go to school to be better educated and prepared for a real job that makes more money. That does not mean that Detroit has to lower their taxes, because a lot of the population probably does not even pay taxes because they do not make enough money. However, students should have a good work ethic and want to strive to do their very best. A better work ethic in school might change the way that they view their responsibilities, and want to help their neighbors and neighborhoods. One change will be the illegal jobs that go on, such as drug deals and prostitution. If people want to improve the world that they live in, then they should either get a better job that is legal or go to school but do not be doing illegal things that will get them thrown in jail and start even more riots. This might be challenging for the lazy people that don’t want to do anything who are on welfare for no reason at all, but it might be a good start for the people that want to be successful in

Finally and foremost, school districts need to get rid of tenure. It is absolutely insane to allow a teacher to have absolute job security no matter how badly they perform. If a teacher can teach they will always have a job. Tenure does not protect high performing teachers as it was intended to do instead it protects low performing teachers. This is vital in getting rid of horrible teachers like Mrs. Eicher who is immune to job loss as a result of how long they have worked at the school.

From low test scores to high schools dropouts, Detroit is known as the least educated city in the nation.  This can lead to a variety of issues, including a rise in criminal activity and the inability for residents to make a positive impact on their city.  In 2009, an article was published by Taham Bradley from ABC News called “What Is the Worst School System in America?”.  Bradley writes in the article that “We've always known Detroit public schools were among the worst in the nation but we haven't seen data like this before...Detroit school children ranked the lowest in the nation of participants on the National Assessment of Educational Progress math test.”  Detroit Public Schools are horrible.  These low test scores don’t just hurt Detroit, but bring down our nation, making our education system fall behind on the international scale.  That is why lawmakers decided to make a bold move and close down Detroit Public Schools for good.  In an article by Avi Asher-Schapiro called “Detroit shifts debt, launches new district with local control”, it is mentioned that “In early June 2016, lawmakers approved a $617 million bailout of Detroit Public Schools to restructure nearly $4 billion in crippling debt.  The plan will divide the schools into an old district-- a legal entity which will pay down debt over time-- and a new debt-free district known as the Detroit Public School Community District, which will be given $150 million startup loan from the state.”  This plan is expected to turn out for the better, by getting rid of the name and bankruptcy of the previous school system and replacing it with this more improved and better funded one.  Schools are the foundation that will teach the new generation of Detroiters  to be successful members of society to help improve the city for years to come.  Detroit’s education system is on the road to recovery, the road to what it was like in the early 60s.  In the book

Experienced teachers are on average more effective in raising student achievement than less experienced counterparts. It is said that teachers do better as they gain experience. In If You Build It, Matt has very good knowledge in designing so he could work with the students hands-on. He also gained knowledge and experience while also teaching other students. Emily on the other hand was the organizer. She was hand-on with building and going around to the students making sure they were working efficiently. Both Matt and Emily gained experience through their many months of working with these high school students. In order for there to be good teachers the state needs to cooperate with the teachers. The salaries must be adequate and the teachers must have an expectation that as they gain experience their salaries will rise in line with what they would normally earn in comparable professions. Teachers would most likely leave if they feel they are in poor working conditions. A principal can improve these conditions and retain good teachers. In If You Build It, the superintendent of Bertie County High School was very creative and ready to work to improve the school with his bright ideas. Unfortunately, before the school year started he was fired because the county couldn’t afford him and his ideas. Politicians and states have this idea of teachers and principals and scapegoats

Besides the casualties of the capital and a majority of American cities, the teachers that fail to do their duties are the reasons for students failing educations. A major reason for this, is because of the tenure that the Teachers Union provides. Teachers that are slacking, but have tenure, can rarely get fired due to the long process it takes. In fact, one in every twenty-four thousand teachers with tenure get fired. By these people being allowed to stay in the education world, the children cannot receive the education they need to succeed. It is proven these

However, how we educate our teachers currently affects generations of people to come. Because of the influx of teachers, we need to metamorphose how we educate our educators. How are we doing in terms of educating our teachers now? Not as great as we could be doing. In a report by the National Council on Teacher Quality, going to a certain school for a teacher’s education could be a never-ending path of sorrow and pain.The failing college in undergraduate education for elementary teacher education was Jackson State University, a public university in Jackson, Mississippi. This university has a population of 9,802 and sits at #537 out of 660 universities on the Forbes Magazine America’s Top Colleges List. If a public university harbors such scores, it cannot be accepted as a viable path for teacher training. In a study done by Dan Goldhaber, Lesley Lavery, and Roddy Theobald (Goldhaber and Theobald of American Institutes for Research and Lavery of Macalester College) it was found that students in currently disadvantaged demographics in Washington State get the teachers with the least experience and of the lowest quality. The study judged disadvantagement in three ways: by race, by income, and by academic success. All the teachers that were put to these disadvantaged groups were deemed to be extremely novice and not effective at all. Experience is key, as a

Detroit's public schools have been in crisis since January. Fantz (2016) explains how the school district is in about $515 million in operating debt. The Senator of Michigan, Goeff Hansen, wants help to bail out Detroit’s schools. The Senate has approved to help the schools but now they are waiting for the House to approve. The teachers have protested before because of unsanitary conditions such as a rat and roach infestations, black mold and pieces of the ceiling falling. This forced dozens of schools to close.

As a recent high school graduate student, I have never been given the opportunity to do a research assignment. Although I look forward to this assignment, the Detroit scenario activity gave me a glimpse of what to expect. The activity itself was quite basic. But it allowed me to understand how much thought truly goes into something as basic as a school.

It’s without a doubt that school districts want to see their students succeed, but some school districts have greater means to provide them with educational resources. Students who live in wealthy communities have an educational advantage because the system is rigged in their favor. They have more experienced teachers and a significantly less student-teacher ratio. They have more modern facilities, more up-to-date computer and science equipment, and more current textbooks. They have more elective courses, more music and art offerings, and more extracurricular activities. They have better libraries, more guidance counselors and superior athletic facilities. Well funded schools with a high percentage of experienced teachers are most often located in the most

Ingersoll, R. M., & Smith, T. M. (2003). The wrong solution to the teacher shortage. Educational Leadership, 60(8), 30-33.

The main argument made by Ingersoll and May is that the reason for the perceived teacher shortage is not about the colleges and universities not being able to recruit minority students or minority students not being able to pass the assessments to get accepted into the education programs, but that once minorities are in the classroom they leave because of the poor working conditions. The point of this article was to highlight why minority teachers leave the teaching profession after three years or less. This article was a bit more refreshing in that it looked at minority educators in the classroom and what schools are doing or not doing to attract and/or retain them. There were a few cost effective ideas like faculty decision-making influence

The Woodson Foundation, a large nonprofit social service agency, is teaming up with the public school system in Washington, D.C, to improve student outcomes. It appears the schools have problems with truancy, low student performance and crime. The teachers are discouraged to help students due to the disrespect and behavioral issues in the classroom. The turnover rate for the best teachers is high, they tend to leave and go to schools that aren’t as troubled (629).