Northern Vance High School: Case Study

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Northern Vance High School is one of three high schools in Vance County alongside 17 others schools from Elementary and Middle Schools with majority of them being traditional public schools. Northern Vance has about 1160 students who attend the school; with the class size ranging from 18 to 26 students. Northern Vance High School is located in a rural area near a small highway surrounded by restaurants and gas stations. There are roughly 77 classroom teachers. There is a turnover rate of 35 %. 40% of the teachers have been teaching for 10 years or more; While 42% have been only teaching about three years or less. Just about 93% of the student show up to school on a daily bases while the other 7% show up sparsely. There are approximately 17% of teachers who have obtained a degree higher than a bachelor’s degree. The economic condition here in Henderson, NC is a decent place if I would say so myself. The public schools here spend about 9,402 for a student to obtain an education while there are 15.6 students per teacher. The unemployment rate here is about 8.70 percent. Northern Vance has a very diverse school. 68.75 percent of their students are African American making that the largest race to attend the school. Then there would be Caucasians making up 27.69 percent. Hispanics make up 3.66% then Asians and Native Americans make up about 1.09 percent of students at the school. The student body makeup is 51 percent male and 49 percent female, and the total minority enrollment is 72 percent. The graduation rate is 67.7 percent. The school performance goal was to have at least 65 percent of their students graduate and they exceeded that amount. Majority of the students here come from a middle class family while a few come a lower class. They are all perceived in the same way and all looked at as a person regardless of their class. Out of 1160 students there have only been 8 acts of crime or violence. They are all given equal opportunity and a fair chance at obtaining an education. All students now receive free lunch. Three contemporary issues I’ve chosen would be Funding Sources, Bullying / Cyberbullying and Diversity. For starters since schools are cutting back on public funding for supplies and books teachers are requesting that students bring in all the required material. This is unfair to the teachers who have to spend their hard earned money on supplies to teach their students because the state isn’t providing them the funds to purchase what they need. Nowadays teachers will ask their students to purchase the materials they will need instead for spending all of their money on material the students can help bring in. This way the teacher can still afford to do the things they need to do with their paycheck. By asking every student to bring in supplies will help the teacher with her next year and this will make up for the student whose family can’t supply anything. Next bullying and cyberbullying is one of those topics that need to be addressed to all students aging from 5 on up. Bullying/Cyberbullying is …show more content…
Nowadays a lot of schools are relying on technology to help promote better learning and keeping up with trends.
Technology in the classroom isn’t necessary a good thing or a bad thing. Technology does allow students to have access to different types of information online. But on the other hand technology in the classroom also allow students to have access to sites that are not school related which could stunt learning. I’m the type of educator who feels like books and encyclopedias should be in the classroom instead of technology. Technology is also more expensive; if the school systems cannot afford to by materials for classroom learning then they should not be adding technology into classrooms. Next technology impacts bullying/cyberbullying in the most traumatic way possible. Technology allows students to say mean and hurtful things to someone without physically saying it to their face. They can gang up on someone and edit pictures to destroy the others reputation. Technology lets students torment, threaten, harass, humiliate, embarrassed or targeted on another. Technology makes it easy to destroy a person and with mobile phones, ipads, computers, tablets within reach no one

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