Dance Of The Lemons Case Study

Anthony father passed away from doing drugs when he was in the second grade and Anthony was held behind that year. He stays with his grandmother Gloria because she took him. He never knew his mom and his grandmother was raised by her grandparents. His grandmother wants to send him to a boarding school. There are 24 spaces and 61 applicants, sadly he did not get in but was put on the waitlist. He wants to go to college to get an education so he can better his future for his kids. In the end he got into the boarding school because the school made room. I feel hopeful for Anthony because he has a good support system and he is going to a boarding school. The school and watch Anthony closely because he is living their. He has two roommates and …show more content…
They have required tests that not only takes away time from school but also has made students learn from direct instruction. The reason why other countries are so ahead of the U.S. because they do not emphasis standardized test as much as we do. Other countries have made learning fun for students.

In 3-4 sentences, describe how you feel about the “dance of the lemons” and the rubber rooms. Is this a fair assessment of teachers? The dance of the lemons is teachers who are chronically bad and are reassigned to new schools and rubber rooms are teachers who are paid not to work. I think that if a teacher is placed in a rubber room they still need make lesson plans for their class and get paid that way. Some teachers do not know that they are bad, so what the administrators should do is try to make them better and help them in any way they can.

In 3-4 sentences, describe how you feel about …show more content…
While schools that do track determine where students should go based on their test scores. So students who are placed on lower tracks often have bad teachers so they start to fall behind. I think it is important to track students because that way you can see what students are falling behind. However, the students who are falling behind should be given to teachers who are willing to work hard and improve them.

In 3-4 sentences, describe your thoughts on the “lottery I think the lottery is a fair way to let students into schools but its really hard on the families. The lottery is unbiased and they do not look at a child’s disadvantages. I wish that the states would get involved to improve the schools that are doing bad so that way students wouldn’t have to go through a lottery and not get in.

In 3-4 sentences, describe how you feel about the “dropout”