Fairfax County Public Schools

career it just reiterates to me how messed up our public school system is. In this movie we follow about five children’s stories as they go through the lottery process of getting into school that will help them succeed in the future as opposed to the low performing public school they are currently in line to attend. The title refers to the need for someone or something to be able to come into this nation and help solve the problem of poor school systems. Whether that be the system as a whole,…

what students in lower class public schools feel about people like me who went to a private school. From what the podcast described people who went to University Heights they were 97% black and Hispanic, Kids who wore hoodies, Jordan’s, and looked like “hoodlums”. Those that attended Fieldston Progressive were preppy rich kids who could afford anything they wanted and were those who were expected to go to college unlike those that went to the public school. The public school children come from…

These underachieving high school students are out competing the more academically inclined public school students such as some students here today. Through their inflated marks these students are being accepted to our programs, possibly even taking one of your spots thus setting us back several undeserved paces. Individuals…

to attend a Montessori school, because my family believed I was way too smart to go to a regular daycare. The Montessori school, did the most phenomenal job preparing me for kindergarten , because I was the youngest child to be enrolled. The elementary school I attended was Caldwell Elementary, which is now Guthier-Caldwell Elementary, and at the time I was 3years and 11 months old. During the early years of my life, much support came from the teachers of the Montessori school. With patience and…

A lot of public schools have girls and boys together in the same class. A lot of private schools keep girls and boys seperated. Having separate gender classes would cause kids some lag in the long run because you can rarely get a job where you only interact with one gender. Some people believe that separating the genders will have a better outcome for students, schools should still have co-education classes, because it will be better for girls and boys because single sex education doesn’t raise…

Becki Wittman The article “What It’s Like to Attend The Best Boarding School in America” by Melia Robinson gives a taste into the life of a Phillips Exeter Academy visitor. Robinson tells anyone interested about the private school, likely parents or students looking for a better education, what kind of learning environment to expect at such a prestigious school. It’s an informative read, but also an opinion and therefore persuasive piece. Robinson doesn’t begin her day as a ‘student’ with…

Michigan has had in the past and how the assistance of philanthropy has helped in tackling issues that the government would not. Philanthropists use their funds in order to change things in society, some examples that are given are funding charter schools and aerial surveillance cameras in Baltimore. While it is good for philanthropy to be influential in creating and funding things like this, the author states that this also gives the philanthropists too much power due to their nimbleness, or…

In this week’s journal, I am going to talk about an interesting topic. That topic is about charter school. I have heard about charter school before. However, I did not enough or sufficient information about charter school. Last week, I was driving home and listening to NPR radio station program “Here & Now”. I was lucky to hear the debate about charter school. I really liked the discussion and enjoyed the debate. So, I am going to summarize the discussion and write about what I have learned from…

policy, taxes, education, military, and health care. Marco Rubio is seen as an important candidate in the Republican Party and many of Americans trust him. Common Core is a program used by Obama and his administration to turn education a national school board, meaning that all the states are held to a basic standard on all educational programs. Marco Rubio believes that this…

give students in failing schools a choice in education. The program was Ohio’s Pilot Project Scholarship Program, hereby as PPSP, which provided tuition aid in the form of vouchers for students in Cleveland City School District to attend participating public or private schools of their parent’s choosing. The tuition aids are made available in the form of checks payable to the parents, who choose the school to which the checks will be sent. By 1999-2000, 82% of private schools that participated…