School Board Video

            The video shows that the board is trying to fix problems in school such as inequality for race.  They talk about how some people are not treated equally and how some changes need to be made.  Honestly the only real way to solve this problem is not by new rules and regulation but with the teachers.  The teachers need to treat each student as an individual rather than as a color.  Each person is different so the teacher can not discriminate.  The teacher cannot go into a classroom and say, “Oh he is black/white so he will never be able to pass my class.”  The teacher must treat every student as an individual since every person is different and must realize that person’s strengths and weaknesses.  People also need to stop saying how much of a disadvantage people of a certain race have, how they have a lower chance of graduating or go to college.  If you keep saying that and the person of the certain race keeps hearing it, eventually they may start to believe it and not even try when that person could have the potential to do great things.  People need to stop treating people by the color of their skin and treat them by who they are because there are good students and there are bad students, but the color of their skin is not the factor that decides that.

            Another problem I have with schools that the board truly needs to fix is testing.  Too much of a person’s academic career relies on testing whether it be regular tests, SATs, ACTs, the CORE, the Practicum, and etc.  Taking a test does not show if you are a good student or will be a good teacher.  There are people who are bad test takers but are brilliant.  Also there are people who are great test takers but put them in front of people to teach and they fail because they have no connection, rather they only know how to take tests.  When in the real world are you going to need these test skills as well?  When am I ever going to need to answer true or false and if false explain why, answer the question and use evidence from the text that means something different to you than it does to someone else, or anything else.   Too much relies on tests that students only care about the test.  They ask, “Will this be on the test?” if its yes they listen, if no they do not.  People seem to not truly care about learning rather just getting the material they need that will be on the test so they can move on.  This issue needs to somehow be resolved and instead of making more ridiculous test students need to pass to move on (NECAPS, CORE, etc) they need to make less because it is adding unnecessary stress which hurts a student’s ability to learn. 

 

this shows that too much relies on tests and how some people do not get real world experience, rather know how to answer questions on a test. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ylot0wVzAb8 

this video from Boy Meets World, shows that kids only care about the information that will be on the test rather than learning