Urban Schools

In the piece, “The Promise of Urban Schools”, many issues were brought up about the urban schools and communities that were very interesting. For example, the Senior Fellows in Urban Education states (2000) that “The community must have a role in their development and implementation, and urban schools and districts must have the resources and offer the opportunities to learn so that students can meet the standards.” (p. 6). Students that attend urban schools are usually from low income families and these families do not have the money to pay the taxes that could pay for better recourses in the schools. Due to this, these urban schools have a disadvantage to meet the high standards that the students in suburban or rural area meet with all the recourses needed.
This is where we, the teachers play an enormous role in education. It is our job to do everything we can to help these kids succeed. It is our duty to make a lesson so interesting that these kids can learn without all the recourses that all the other schools have. We have to put in the extra time to help these students. We have to understand our students and understand where they are coming from and what there lives are like and put it into perspective. By doing this, we can teach in a way that these kids can relate to the topic and research it be successful in the real world that they live in.

Urban

In the piece, “The Promise of Urban Schools”, many issues were brought up about the urban schools and communities that were very interesting. For example, the Senior Fellows in Urban Education states (2000) that “The community must have a role in their development and implementation, and urban schools and districts must have the resources and offer the opportunities to learn so that students can meet the standards.” (p. 6). Students that attend urban schools are usually from low income families and these families do not have the money to pay the taxes that could pay for better recourses in the schools. Due to this, these urban schools have a disadvantage to meet the high standards that the students in suburban or rural area meet with all the recourses needed.
This is where we, the teachers play an enormous role in education. It is our job to do everything we can to help these kids succeed. It is our duty to make a lesson so interesting that these kids can learn without all the recourses that all the other schools have. We have to put in the extra time to help these students. We have to understand our students and understand where they are coming from and what there lives are like and put it into perspective. By doing this, we can teach in a way that these kids can relate to the topic and research it be successful in the real world that they live in.

What are our schools?

What are our schools today? What do our schools do for our students and for our community? Schools are much more then just tests and homework and a place for the children to go when the parents are at work. Our schools are a place of diversity among different cultures joining together. It is a place where democracy is learned, and understood. Our schools create our country’s citizens to be who they are. It is a place where problems are deliberated.
“First, increase the variety and frequency of interaction among students who are culturally, linguistically, and racially different from one another.” “School leaders must capitalize on whatever diversity is present among students-be it race, religion, language, gender, or social class-and increase the variety and frequency of opportunities for interaction.”
Our schools are not only teaching reading, math, and history, but our schools are also teaching democratic values. With our schools being so diverse, it forces our citizens (students) to come together and deliberate on all issues, whether is be social or academic. This teaches our students to come to an agreement with including different cultural ideas. This is a great way to create democratic citizenship because every person has a say on the deliberation and everyone has a right to state their opinion and come to a solution.

“An idiot is one whose self-centeredness undermines his or her citizen identity, causing it to whither or never to take root in the first place. Private gain is the goal, and the community had better not get in the way.”
Our schools are a public place where students are not only concerned about themselves. The schools have a lot to do with the community, and schools are the foundation of a community. Schools are where the idiocy is forgotten about and where the community can come together. Everyone has issues that they need to settle, school is a place where people are not alone when it comes to problems. Students and teachers are all there to support one another. Once this is learned, the students bring this idea out of the schools with them and into the community and pass it on bringing everyone in the community together to make better citizens
“In schools, deliberation is not only a means of instruction (teaching with deliberation) but also a curricular goal (teaching for deliberation), because it generates a particular kind of social good: democratic community, a public culture.”
By our schools teaching deliberation, it enforces our students to work together to create a solution. It’s a way to forget about idiocy and promote democratic citizenship. When our students can come together and agree on one thought, our country is one step closer to a pure democratic society.
Why do we have schools today? Well that question can be answered by looking at our communities, government, and our country. Our schools are who our citizens are today. Our citizens not only enforce democracy, but also promote deliberation and demote idiocy. Some people can say our schools are the most valuable entity our country has.