Education!!

From the videos, it can be seen that children are declining due to the poor quality of the schools. For example, Alaine Leroy Locke High School in  Los Angelos has had 40,000 children out of 60,000 who have attended in the past 40 years drop out. Now what does that say about their education system? Or even the way that they value education? There is no way that 800 students should drop from going ONE grade to another. And if this has been going on for 40 years, then there is a serious problem. The idea of local control I believe can be the thing that saves education. From discussions, It was said that local control will enable the staff to be at its best. The staff will be known by most of the community, which includes their advantages and disadvantages. The videos in my opinion touch on the solution but don’t go into enough detail about it. The problem lies with the educators, and how they teach. The boy documented in the clips showed improvement with a better teacher. George W. Bush tried changed the world of education when he created the No Child Left Behind Act. This still is in effect today. I think as seen in the slides that a centralized education system could benefit in a great way. The government should be involved in some areas as much as possible. The pressure that would be emitted would maybe cause educators to focus more on their material and do better with test scores. The government should interfere in areas like math and reading that are flatlining in improvement and also with the hiring of teachers in these schools. Changing paradigms can be radical changes that ultimately will solve problems dealing with family support, financial problems etc. How we view the education of a child must change and their ideas as they grow up must change.