Monday, April 8, 2013

Atlanta Cheating Scandal Reverberates

I find this article sad, these educators encouraged cheating. I feel for those students who were taught to cheat and actually think it is ok. These adults who participated in this have taught those students nothing but to cheat their way through life. Those 35 educators were selfish and didn't care about the lives and futures of their students.

Thursday, April 4, 2013

To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me

In this article the High School girl is clearly frustrated with the colleges' of her choice because they did not accept her. She talks about diversity and how if she would have known what she does now she would have been something she wasn't. I feel she is a little bit over exaggerating by saying you need to have 9 extracurricular and 6 leadership positions but I see her point. Even though she did not get accepted didn't mean she was a horrible student. If she wanted to go to an Ivy league school then she should have taken the opportunity to do those things because they don't accept just anybody, she needed to stand out.

Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Lalee's Kin

This documentary the problem that the people of Tallahatchie, MS are dealing with it multiple generations of illiteracy. Lalee is a woman who struggles to have the necessities for his family much less have the proper education to help her grandkids. The West Tallahatchie school is on probation due to low test scores. Reggie Barns, superintendent, was hired to push the kids to raise the schools test scores. If the scores weren't getting any better then the State of Mississippi would take over. I think one thing that needs to happen is for the schools to provide some way to provide for the kids who cant afford school supplies. If a child does not have schools supplies then they don't want to school and they fall behind. Another thing is for parents to get help so that they can help teach their kids or grandchildren at the comfort of their homes. No parent wants to see their child go through what they have gone through, they want to see them succeed. The only way for children like lalee's grandkids to grow in their education is to have the proper education but how do you fix it? Its going to take a lot of time and patients along with caring for the students.