Low Socioeconomic Disadvantages Of Virtual School

The cost of a college education, the housing market, and the overall cost of living has increased at an alarming rate. Since Quindlen targets the use of time by children, let’s visit the cost of their future. There has been a drastic increase in tuition for public universities in the last 40 years. Ballpark estimation of said increase in tuition is 994% between 1970 and 2010 and in quantitative terms, from $1,207 to $11,034 a year (Hamm). If that sounds reasonable, consider that in 1973, a whopping 72% of jobs only required a high school diploma where as in 2007, only 41% of jobs were available to the same demographic (Hamm). With that being said, Quindlan’s approach on the validity of a child’s time is discouraging. With their financial future at risk, children don’t have the luxury of doing nothing. A child cannot discover an interest unless exposed to it in some way. It is the duty of a parent to both give the child an appropriate level of responsibility and the opportunity of exposure to a variety of fields of interest and thought. Quindlen dismisses “[suggestions] that any class in which you do not enroll [a] first grader in will put [him or her] at a disadvantage” (83). Without the intervention of the parent, developmental self-sufficiency dissolves and the potential for character goes with

Right now I'm working toward a degree in Early Childhood Education, though that may change due to my current work in the Culinary Arts. Back when I was in high school I decided to leave my more traditional brick & mortar to spend my junior and senior years at Broward

The socioeconomic status for those who are impoverished in the United States is inherently poor and has not seen marked improvements over the last 30 years. Rather the situation has grown increasingly dire with continued and extreme inequities. Communities within the urban setting suffer from poverty levels much

Social class can have an effect on a student’s success. Due to a household’s socioeconomic status (SES), this can determine what resources are available to a student. Some households are classified as high SES and some as low SES. While students from each type of household can attend the same school, these students may not have the same equality once in the classroom. Students from high SES households are able to have tutors. Whereas, students from low SES households may not have the same luxury. “The SES of students is determined by parental education level, parental occupation, family income, and household items” (Spring, 2013, p. 82).

Central phenomenon (McMillan, pp. 52-53) – the focus of qualitative research. Virtual school curriculum could be studied and the central phenomenon would be who writes the curriculum and what resources are included in the curriculum.

Virtual School Consultant Project Virtual schooling for K-12 is the biggest trend in education today and is focus on supplemental and blended learning environments that happens in conjunction with face-to-face learning. According to the September 2011 Issue Brief on Virtual Charter Schools ' blended learning is the focal point of innovation and experienced the most significant growth in virtual schools. Students’ gravitation to fully online learning, at this time, is limited; consequently, supplemental or fulltime programs are the most common schools in Maryland and was the basis of this recommendation (Babour, n.d.).

Signature Assignment: Apply What You Have Learned Students are interested in learning when school is fun and the educational programs are designed to be engaging. Many schools are embracing technology that actively involve students in learning. The programs are designed to reach out to students and grasp their attention. Students from all different academic abilities can learn and express their knowledge through their use of digital technology. Advancements in technology is allowing for more competition in society while presenting escalating global opportunities. Information is crossing borders and boundaries geographically, allowing investment of the students to compete for opportunities. Through the use of education systems, children can increase learning opportunities to become participants in society to further their growth into model citizens. Children can learn to become socially involved in their surroundings while accepting diversity and using the tools of their educational programs for innovation. Today’s classrooms are small and the technology used should be designed to meet the needs of students learning conditions. Schools need to accommodate classrooms for students and facilitate their learning, showing them the benefits and advantages to exploring learning with the use of technology. One of the most debated issues discussed in education today is the use of computers. An article of concern in the text book was Issue 20. It questioned, “Do Computers

A quality education, has always been viewed as a way to achieve greatness in life. Education allows youth to have social mobility; a way to break out of their current status. In history, the educational opportunities of the United States of America, has been viewed as a crucial part of the American Dream. Public education started during the Industrial Revolution as a way to allow children to achieve greater jobs than gruesome factory work. For the first time in history, all children were learning outside of the close family bubble that traditional education relied on. Public schools have continued to evolve to this day, in hopes of preparing America’s youth for college and beyond. However, as many parents have found, the reality of such education is far from the expectations. Particularly in urban public schools, in poverty stricken cities like Detroit and Chicago, teachers fail to be able to teach their pupils. It is easy to blame these issues on the teacher or on building principals for not being ‘qualified enough’, but that is not necessarily true. Others will quickly blame individual parents, who fail to take a large enough role in their child’s education. Regardless of the reason, parents and many teachers have looked to new and innovative ways to teach our youth. This was originally present in the growth of private schools in the United States. But unlike public schools, private schools often require expensive tuition payments, and have been reserved for the social

Like all working-class families, my family never had many luxuries, especially when it came to education. Although my parents and later my single mother could afford the supplies that were given to me, I never had the sort of experience that wealthier kids had when it came to education. I cared about my grades, but it never stimulated me throughout elementary and middle school because it all was just memorization instead of actual understanding. Like a student that was interviewed in Jean Anyon’s academic paper, Social Class and the Hidden Curriculum of Work, it was all just in my head like “cold storage --, until you need it later for a test or your job.” Unfortunately, this is all too common in many working and middle class schools, and it leaves students deprived of the skills necessary to become confident and strong leaders or engage in more complicated fields until they reach college or high school. This is why social class and education play such a pivotal role in erecting socioeconomic barriers and limiting the social mobility of the working class in America, preventing qualified and talented working-class students to become prosperous citizens in society.

Duncan and Murnane argue that economic and educational inequality greatly affects children’s educational and developmental outcomes in Restoring Opportunity: The crisis of inequality and the challenge for American education. Duncan and Murnane point out that since the 1970s, there has been a shift in technology and globalization. This makes receiving a K-12 education more important for life skills than it has been in the past. Since the 1970’s, globalization and computerization have decreased blue-collar jobs and enhanced the job market. Despite this, there is still an issue of students attending and paying for college, and this problem is

Students around America all use the new technology that the government has funded them. The government is putting more and more technology into schools hoping that it will help the students learn more. In fact, the new technology is not helping, but making things worse for the younger adolescence. It is destroying the minds of students, in which, teachers/parents do not realize. Computers and IPads are being use every day throughout the school system to “teach” children. “We live in a high-tech world-with high-tech classrooms,” states Pamela Deloatch. All schools embrace the ability to have electronics during class, but in the end, it can be astonishing how effective they can be. With online classes, it can be hard to get away from technology, so children can try to open a textbook—instead of looking up their answers. Although technology has become an important part in the school system, it will continue to destroy the minds of younger adolescence, and there are many reasons for this.

Central phenomenon (McMillan, pp. 52-53) – The focus of qualitative research. Virtual school curriculum could be studied and the central phenomenon would be who writes the curriculum and what resources are included in the curriculum.

Ireland The social stratification in Ireland today is undefined. During the Celtic Tiger it was perceived that Ireland as a whole was very wealthy and many people were classed as ‘wealthy’ or ‘upper class’. However since the recession hit the social status regarding the wealth of the country has deteriorated. It

Nowadays, parents have several options when it comes to giving their children quality education. For the most part, however, their choice depends largely on their availability, budget, and interests of their children. After all, schooling would not be enriching or meaningful enough to students if the teaching and learning approach

Although the number of families with access to the Internet has risen sharply in the past decade, a significant proportion of households are unable to afford the fees for these services. [1] It would indicate that students from such households at an obvious disadvantage. The students, unlike children from middle and upper income families, do not have ready access to the specialized and up-to-date information and entertainment provided by this new media. Thus, it reinforces the non–digital inequalities.