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programs. The fixation with producing higher test scores doesn’t come as a surprise when one realizes that money follows the ability to boost these arbitrary measures of intelligence. Choice programs are largely privately funded, especially voucher schools, which leads to questions about the motivations behind their creation and success. Programs like Rocketship are not shaped solely around the desire to help students achieve, but are also influenced by the profits of the private investors…

Answers and Solutions of Public Schools The question of why the American public schools are failing and what are some solutions to help fix that problem, is asked everyday not only by the school board or the students but as well as the parents. This research paper is a way of finding out why American public schools are failing and how can it be fixed. A lot of unanswered questions surrounding public schools as far as why public schools are failing is, why valuable funds are being wasted, who…

Violence in public schools Violence has always been a major issue in public schools and is a very serious concern in today’s society. Studies show that more than 50 percent of public schools contain violence each day. Have we ever taken a minute to think about how the parents of the victims feel? Do the person that caused the violence thought about the consequences before they took action? Violence in public schools to affect everyone around us. After thinking about these questions; what steps…

Williams said it best when he stated, “No one should be bound to worship, or to maintain a worship [taxes to an established church] against his own consent" (Karsten). This is why required prayer in public schools is such an argumentative topic in today’s society. In 1962, required prayer was taken out of schools across the United States (Pros and Cons of Prayer). However, individual prayer is still allowed and acceptable, somewhat. Teachers and faculty members may not participate in prayer…

States of America, uniforms were symbolic for a higher socioeconomic status in the private sector of education. Today many public school systems across America have eliminated a dress code and are implementing uniform policies. One in five elementary schools in the United States now requires uniforms, according to The National Center for Education Statistics (“Should Schools Require Uniforms?” 7). On the contrary there has been numerous debates over whether uniforms limits students’ freedom of…

with current systems for education in the United States, it is impossible for the model to be implement on a large scale. While the school says that economic background is of no matter but rather merit is the determining factor for their students, with scholarships available to students, it does not take into account educational disparities that occur in public school systems. Factors such as lack of funding, large populations, standardized education requirements, and tracking make it nearly…

In Why Religion Should Not Be Taught in Public Schools, Harold Editor claims that world religion has no room to be taught in a public school. Perhaps the strongest idea that Editor presents for this statement relies strongly on the claim that by teaching religion in a school, it will cause too many disagreements, consequently leading to unnecessary arguments among students. He supports this by saying “the more one teaches about religion, the more people will argue about what is true and what…

reality of the “school to prison pipeline,” a phrase which represents the pathway that public schools insert as a scapegoat to the neglect and process severe punishments of America’s public school system. This widespread pattern is associated to the dysfunction and failing results of our public school system. The many dysfunctions of our school system are colorfully swept under the rug. The different mandates are patterns of severe punishments for both individuals and communities. The school…

The topic of praying in public schools was introduced over fifty years ago. This controversial topic has been and still is running through our school systems since the early 1960s. It started becoming more of problem during high school football games when players started praying before the game. Parents of the children who did not participate we complaining about the praying. These kids were Mormon, Catholic, or had no religion and did not want to participate in the “Baptist Church” beliefs. In…

you do not receive these vital skills in homeschooling. Parents should choose public schooling for their children because their child will receive a better education, receive important social skills, and have the opportunity to participate in extracurricular activities. Education in the public school is a better option because the child receives a better education. For teachers to be allowed to teach in the public school system, they must receive years of training. They continue to receive…