With a population of about 50,000, Miamifield is a city located in the south west corner of Ohio. Specifically, Miamifield is located in Cook County and is the focal point for the county’s administrative and judicial offices. Being that we are in the heart of the Rust Belt, Miamifield has a long history of industry and manufacturing, but is now a days more a more popular homestead for legal professionals that work in the downtown offices. With outsourcing increasing daily, the unemployment rate has skyrocketed to a shocking 8%. This has lead to a large income gap between the Upper Class and the middle/lower. In efforts to try and fix the problem with the unemployment, the previous mayor tried to promote a “high tech industrial park” and
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As Dewey thought, “democracy is a way in which people come together to deliberate in order to adjust to the ever-changing world that we inhabit.” (Quantz 2015, Kindle Locations 354-355) Coming together to adjust to the ever-changing world, the team and we have concluded that there are many changes to the Miamifield schools system that we would like to propose, specifically focusing on the high school. Although we agree with parts of the Essentialism and and Perennialism, we made our policy recommendations based on our beloved professor, Justice Dewey, and his ideas of progressivism. After discussing with my team, I chose to focus on the issues of gender and intersectionality that the Miamifield High School is dealing with. Some of the biggest issues that the group saw was the crazy number of students that are dropping out of high school, the topic of LGBTQ, and the idea of a more liberal (as in broad) and diversifying education. To answer these, we have come up with some precise solutions that will help sometimes in more than one problem …show more content…
We did a little research on the average dropout rate comparing males and females and found that, “Between 1990 and 2014, the male status dropout rate declined from 12.3 to 7.1 percent, with nearly the entire decline occurring after 2000 (when it was 12.0 percent). For females, the rate declined from 11.8 percent in 1990 to 9.9 percent in 2000, and then decreased further to 5.9 percent in 2014. In 2014, the status dropout rate was higher for males than for females.” (National Center for Education Statistics) Looking at the study on Miamifield, we have the exact opposite of the national trend, we have more females dropping out of school rather than boys. And to add to our abnormal findings, our dropout rate is more than double the national average. Looking deeper into the case study, we have an increasing problem of teen pregnancy in our little town of Miamifield. Two proposals that we have to combat this problem of increasing teen pregnancy is a more liberal approach to sex education. We obviously can tell that what we are doing now with the, “Finding Your Kindred Soul Mate” two week abstinence-only module is not working. The only way that we are going to be able to slow down the teen pregnancy rate is to teach student how to be in a responsible relationship where they understand the risks that come along with being
As Dewey thought, “democracy is a way in which people come together to deliberate in order to adjust to the ever-changing world that we inhabit.” (Quantz 2015, Kindle Locations 354-355) Coming together to adjust to the ever-changing world, the team and we have concluded that there are many changes to the Miamifield schools system that we would like to propose, specifically focusing on the high school. Although we agree with parts of the Essentialism and and Perennialism, we made our policy recommendations based on our beloved professor, Justice Dewey, and his ideas of progressivism. After discussing with my team, I chose to focus on the issues of gender and intersectionality that the Miamifield High School is dealing with. Some of the biggest issues that the group saw was the crazy number of students that are dropping out of high school, the topic of LGBTQ, and the idea of a more liberal (as in broad) and diversifying education. To answer these, we have come up with some precise solutions that will help sometimes in more than one problem …show more content…
We did a little research on the average dropout rate comparing males and females and found that, “Between 1990 and 2014, the male status dropout rate declined from 12.3 to 7.1 percent, with nearly the entire decline occurring after 2000 (when it was 12.0 percent). For females, the rate declined from 11.8 percent in 1990 to 9.9 percent in 2000, and then decreased further to 5.9 percent in 2014. In 2014, the status dropout rate was higher for males than for females.” (National Center for Education Statistics) Looking at the study on Miamifield, we have the exact opposite of the national trend, we have more females dropping out of school rather than boys. And to add to our abnormal findings, our dropout rate is more than double the national average. Looking deeper into the case study, we have an increasing problem of teen pregnancy in our little town of Miamifield. Two proposals that we have to combat this problem of increasing teen pregnancy is a more liberal approach to sex education. We obviously can tell that what we are doing now with the, “Finding Your Kindred Soul Mate” two week abstinence-only module is not working. The only way that we are going to be able to slow down the teen pregnancy rate is to teach student how to be in a responsible relationship where they understand the risks that come along with being