Education is thought of as one of the most important things that contribute to the development of a person’s personality and cognitiveexcellence. The most important question that we as an individual have to answer is whether we want to opt for a school that is based in an urban vicinity or the one that is based in the rural one.
The American myth insists that education is the path that helps urban people to get the status of the middle class. The book, Finding a New Perspective For Urban Education In America (ISBN 978-1951630072) , however, claims that the level of education received by urban students in public school is insufficient to make competitive with middle and upper-class income peers. The mathematics class in high poverty schools is twice as in public schools for urban students. Similarly for science classes at high poverty high school is three times more than the classes taken place in low-poverty high school.
Let's have a look at the aspects that make urban education either good or bad:
a. Ample opportunities for co-curricular activities:
If it is the school or the city, the urban areas are always full of opportunities that help us entertained and never let people get bored. There are restaurants, movie theatres, amazing social life, shopping sites, etc. The cities allow you to roam around free and do anything anytime you want.
b. Better job opportunities:
There are better job and internshipopportunities for you when you study in an urban school because of the big conglomerates and respectablebusinesses run their operation in the city offices. There is also a chance that you will get to do both thethings simultaneously and be able to graduate in a better position and stable financial conditions.
c. Diversity amongst the students of the school:
The students that come in from far and wide and rural areas and get e n rolled in the urban schools, provide the school premises with an amazing diversity that also helps us adjust to the norms and get comfortable. The student bodies that are selected or elected are then eventually diverse too.
It is speculated that the poor academic achievements in the students of “urban minorities" are often laid on the education system and the schools and this has been the scenario for the past 20 to 30 years. But the main issue and the most challenging thing about this whole situation is the fact that the majority of the students in urban public schools receive free and reduced-price lunches which are indicating that the families of these students are very near and are bordering on the federal poverty level.
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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