Woodbridge Middle School Critical Analysis

Rusty, dark, and tight is what can describe Woodbridge Middle School, a school that is one hundred six years old and is evident by how the school is taken care of, or lack of. Students spend a significant amount of time at school and should feel excited and comfortable to be there. The problem with having schools that are not receiving proper care while there are schools that are well off is that they receive more assistance which results in an unequal balance of resources being distributed. Yet these schools that get the short end of the stick learn to work with what they have, but if one thinks of that mentality that might not get the school working full speed ahead. In Woodbridge Middle School, when one enters one sees that a lot of classes …show more content…
Yet there are districts where one does not have parents and schools who can find a reasonable way to allocate their resources or simply not have enough resources to allocate. In Woodbridge Middle School for example they have a limited amount of classes and therefore have a limited amount of teachers. That being said, the school cannot really afford to have one teacher to its own class or that would mean not having enough teachers hired. With such classrooms the students are sitting really close to each other and are having some trouble spreading out their work. Since it is two classes in one the teachers try to fit all their supplies, tables, drawers, and with all that the teachers desk barely fits and is put on an angle. In terms of how students focus there is too much going on in the room. With more financial help, a school like this can work on having more classrooms, one teacher a class, more space for students and space for the teachers themselves. There is also poor lighting going …show more content…
In Woodbridge Middle School students are just writing what is on the board, not asking questions, and in the end would ask so many questions, but only when it was during a test. Teachers for the most part would go through the lesson plan fairly quickly despite having an hour and twenty minutes, being that the school follows a block schedule. Thus as previously mentioned schools that are not receiving sufficient amount of resources/care can in fact relate to teacher quality and how they carry out their lesson. Teachers are just focusing on getting through the curriculum and doing all they have to do rather than ensure that the students understand the concepts being taught. In relation to teachers going through curriculum fast, teachers do not establish a friendly relationship with their students. The relationship can be strictly related to teacher-student which can impact how students interact with each other as well. For example, if it was that a teacher interacted with students solely through the curriculum then students