A lot of people all around the world treat education as a means of business. They fail to understand that education should never be something that earns you money but, it should be something that earns you respect. The school systems in the urban areas present us with the excuse that the reason behind low-performance rates in schools based in cities is the language and poverty barriers. The schooling systems based in cities enroll a total of 30% of all the public school students in America. Meanwhile, they also enroll 40% of the poor students and 45% of the minority students in their schools so, what is the possible reason behind the school management saying that they are unable to accommodate the major chunk of their students as per their needs.
In a survey based on urban education in the USA, the Education Week claimed that most of the 4th and 5th-grade students who live in American cities cannot properly read and understand even the simplest of the children’s books. In the book, Finding a New Perspective for Urban Education in America (ISBN 978-1951630072), the author says that most of the students in the 8th standard are unable to solve practical problems. A little over 50% of the students in the big cities in the USA are unable to complete their High School within the 4 years graduation period and most of the ones who do graduate are unable to perform well in further studies and fail to deliver at their workplaces.
The duty, to some extent, falls to the families and parents of the students too because they need to understand that their kids are already struggling with a lot of spoken and unspoken issues at their schools and they should probably learn to go easy on them while at home and make them feel comfortable enough to share whatever they are feeling. Moreover, what the schools can do is they can come up with regulations and training for even the teachers so that they can keep a check as to when and why a social issue is prevailing in order to preserve both the mental and physical health of the students.
In other words, it would be very safe to say that while on one hand, urban education is providing students with platforms to move forward in the advanced world and prove themselves, it is also one of the most terrifying causes for the youngsters and students turning into the people that they are not proud of and neither is this nation. When these issues kick in, it becomes very difficult for the school management to control it and provide the kids with a safe and secure learning environment.
Author Bio:
Dr. Sergio Páezis a Columbian urban educator with an experience of over 20 years. He is a former superintendent from Massachusetts who also held a position in the Worcester Public School System and served there for almost 7 years as the Manager of English Language Learners and Supplemental Support.
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