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I Found An Issue With The Education System

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I found an issue quite evident at Simmons Pickney. I found an issue with the education system and how the structure of the programs did not allow the majority of students to genuinely express themselves nor did it set them up for success in high school. The environment present at Simmons Pickney was seemingly hostile for the most part when it came to the staff. They were constantly yelling at the students even if they were doing nothing wrong; It seemed that the teachers that were sent to the school were at the lower percentile in their classes in college. One teacher in particular, who was supposed to be teaching chemistry could not even balance a simple molecular equation, one that took the volunteers (who were originally sent to the school to help the students with the construction of their boats and to help connect the students at Simmons Pickney with their maritime community, but were now tutors) who had also attempted the equation and completed in less than a minute. The school seems to be set up to fail, and an administrator had even stated the school might be nearing close due to the lack of funding. This funding comes from the state and is based on grades, and I do not think that putting students, most of which have great potential and are quite sociable and intelligent when allowed to be, in a situation that is set up to fail is anywhere near fair. While I have never really had experience dealing with this type of structural deficiency, it is clearly evident that

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