Essay about Public Schools Plagued by Overcrowding

Everybody knows that schools, just like society, have different hierarchies. These hierarchies are money-centered and have different levels of snobbery. Most parents want to send their child to the best school in the community. This want increases the number of families that move into the area or community that the school is located. Parents will provide any amount of money to give their children a good primary education. Schools often receive their funding through how many students are enrolled. Therefore, the bigger the school, the more funding the school obtains. Also, when people with the same average income or community interest accumulate in the same area they make up what kind of school will be present in the community. The financial statuses of schools can be sorted into 3 categories: High Priced and High Privileged, Hell Bent Broke, and Just Rights.

When you walk through the streets and enter into the houses of the village, you will notice boys and girls from the same family and parents but with a big difference between their lives. You will see the boy with ultimate freedom and many options to live the kind of life that he wants but to the other side you will face a girl with a desperate and hopeless smile with many wishes and dreams that are always wishes for her. Instead of having pen and books in her hand, she is doing all the type of hard and physical work all her life. She is always silent and powerless against the harsh rules of life. Furthermore, when it comes to the rest of her life. She cannot select the partner of her life with whom she spends the rest of her life. She never had a book in her hand or learned in school, to know that how she can have her freedom and can chose whatever she wants for herself. She never went to school and learned that how powerful she is and what big things she can do. That is the kind of life that a girl has in province of Wardak, Afghanistan. Lack of girls' school is a big problem in the Wardak, Afghanistan, and in order to solve it religious leaders and seniors of the province, and government can have a big role.

Secondary education is a highly debated subject. Many critics of secondary education say that inner-city high schools and students are not receiving the same attention as students from non inner-city high schools. Two of the biggest concerns are the lack of school funding that inner-city high schools are receive and the low success rate in sending inner-city high schools graduates to college. Critics say that while inner-city high schools struggle to pay its teachers and educate its student’s non inner-city high schools don’t have to deal with the lack of school funding. Also students from non inner-city high school are not being given the opportunity to attend colleges once the

Overcrowding means students don't get the attention they need from their teachers. But that is most of the time true. With less students the better because then we have plenty of space for having special education. Nationwide, there are many schools bursting at the seams. In New York forest hills high school many students have a second shift at 8:30 and a third shift at 10:30 because many students are attending that school and overcrowding it.

When I first moved to New York as a newly-arrived immigrant nine years ago, I was amazed, among other things, at the diversity and opportunities that I observed around me. It was equally shocking, as I underwent the process of becoming a New Yorker, to see the uneven geographical spread of these great opportunities throughout the city. Specifically, I am speaking of the disadvantages of children in low income neighborhoods with higher crime rates than surrounding areas.

Rapidly growing population necessitates large investments in social infrastructure and divers resources from directly productive assets. Due to scarcity of resources, it is not possible to provide educational, health, medical, transport and housing facilities to the entire population. There is overcrowding everywhere.

First of all, when students are in a crowded classroom, they won't get the right amount get the right amount of education the teachers are supposed

Teachers in these big urban schools don’t invest as much time into their students as small suburban schools do. The class sizes are big and the teachers can’t attend to every students needs so students start to fall behind. Falling too far behind, it begins to be too difficult for them to catch up and meet the academic requirements. As the Baltimore education documentary showed, some of the twelve year old boys still could not read, yet the teacher in the Baltimore school didn’t even know this because of how many students they have. Not only are the class sizes substantial, the working environment is neglected and despaired from previous years. The students destroy the schools throughout the years and because of budget cuts, the students are still being educated in these dilapidated, neglected schools. In suburban communities, people along with community members fund the schools and help out to make the school district excel. In urban cities it is harder to receive the funding because in most cases, the schools are surrounded by poverty. It is also problematic to attract quality teachers into these areas when they don’t have favorable work environments, the students are struggling with poor home conditions, and the pay isn’t adequate due to many budget cuts. Because of budget cuts, the schools have to cut more after-school activities, giving the students more reasons to not value school, misbehave, and not be

First before I could even start to begin to speak of the challenges in inner city schools, I must define “what an inner city school is.” An inner city school is located in the central area of a major city, where most people live in townhouses or apartment buildings. Sometimes when people hear the word “inner city” the first thought that comes to mind is a lower income area. You may also think of the people who live in the inner city. This population can be quite diverse, with racial groups such as African American, Hispanics, and so on. The biggest issue facing the inner city is the schools that lay in these areas. Since many people in these areas are minority and live below the poverty line, this has caused issues with financing area schools. Schools receive their funding from the federal government, but mostly from their local and state government which is also responsible for collecting property, sales, and other taxes that fund

With 8.4 million residents across the five boroughs, New York City’s population density is the highest of any major city in the United States. According to the Department of Housing Preservation’s Population Division, the City has more

I support David Jones article because I am from the city. NYC is a tough city to keep up a decent income because housing and public transportation is expensive. Most people want to live in the Big Apple and thus, that is why NYC is crowded and expensive. Most New Yorker’s have to pay $1,000 - 4,000 rent while paying $120 for subway fare monthly. People in the city put in long hours, to make corporate and law firm salaries or working three jobs to get ahead. The city incredibly busy and focused. The local government is not doing enough in reducing subway fares and rent. Most public schools in the city are not doing well due to teachers being overworked, underfunded, and burdened with paperwork. When this happen, you will see higher dropout rates

"Overcrowding means students don't get the attention they need from their teachers, they just don't"(Leonie Haimson, pg.1, par.3). Forest hills high school teaches students in a very diverse middle class community in Queens. In San Diego, the school district used stimulus dollars to reduce classroom size and their test grades have gone up from 45% to 56% in their English classes, because most kids there don't speak English, trying to learn a new language. Many schools, such as Truman elementary, they have a gymnasium, which is a multipurpose room with a stage, the stage works as a parent's center and music class for

Overcrowding is a big problem and makes it so that people who live in small areas together are in danger and face many problems that come along with overcrowding. Overcrowding and pushing people into one area can cause a decrease in the health of the population of the people that live there as a large group of humans living in one area usually leads to a decrease in the levels of sanitation for the country, this leads to people getting sick and maybe even dying because of bad health. Sanitation is not really that much of a problem in modern times but it was very serious years ago when most cities did not have good pluming or even any pluming to help with this problem. Overcrowding can also lead to an increase in the crime rate in the area as when a large group of people live in one area, especially when the people are of low income and don’t have money to pay for things, they tend to do things that would be considered illegal, not all of them would do this and it might only be a small group that resort to crime to get what they

Class sizes today are getting bigger every year. According to Mokoto Rich, "public schools employ about 250,000 fewer people than before the recession, according to figures from the Labor Department. Enrollment in public schools, meanwhile, has increased by more than 800,000 students" (New York Times). Those figures are astonishing. With enrollment up and staffing down it pushes more students into a classroom. This "staffing gap has pushed elementary class sizes to 30 students and more in California" (Rich). With thirty students to one teacher the learning in the classroom will be affected. The issues of over populated classrooms make learning more difficult, will have more discipline issues and a teacher will not be

There are some effects of overcrowding. The first one is loss of fresh water. According to UN-Water, 75% of planet Earth is covered in water. 97.5% of that is ocean and 2.5% is freshwater. 70% of freshwater is divided into glaciers and ice caps and the remaining 30% into land surface water, such as rivers, lakes, ponds and groundwater. Most of the freshwater resources are either unreachable or too polluted, leaving less than 1% of the world's freshwater, or about 0.003% of all water on Earth, readily accessible for direct human use. According to the Global Outlook for Water Resources to the Year 2025, it is estimated that by 2025, more than half of the world population will be facing water-based vulnerability and human demand for water will account for 70% of all available freshwater. Furthermore, a report in November 2009 by the 2030 Water Resources Group suggests that by 2030, in some developing