Low performing schools

Article: http://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/low-performing-schools/

Detailed Reaction:
Low performing schools are a problem that is difficult to deal with. There are obviously many things to account for. Students, teachers, and other faculty are be handled and dealt with when it comes to shutting down or taking over a failing school. I think that low-performance schools are one of the major annoyances of the education system.

Why do I say this? I state this because most overcrowding problems and uneven student-teacher ratios are rooted from the closing of a failing school. When the students and teachers are without a school, they have to move on to another school, if the students wish to finish school and if the teachers and faculty wish to be financially secured through jobs. This means that other high schools that may already have problems of their own will have to compensate for the students that are without a school. This will most likely lead to that other school being overcrowded. Therefore, this will become a cycle and soon, all schools will be hit by this "plague" of schools being shut down.

The new school will have to deal with these students most of who aren't exactly students that would survive in a college atmosphere, or even that of a normal high school. It's mainly because of the majority of students failing the majority of their classes. The only reasons that they tend to fail these classes are because of the difficulty, who the teacher is, how often they actually attend the class itself, the resources the school provides for supplemental education, and of course, the morale of each student. However, the government and the Board of Education are taking steps to fix this ongoing problem. Programs such as the "No Child Left Behind" have come into existence and they help by getting these students out of school so that the schools themselves will have to deal with less students and not more. I have a firm belief in the fact that these programs should come into play more often than these abundant takeovers and school closings. I'm in a similar program myself, and what this program does is that it helps to get the student get back on track and graduate on time or even earlier. These programs should receive more attention, and subsequently, more funding to save the Board of Education the trouble of having to deal with hundreds of school transfers.