Wednesday, October 20, 2010

California Students Protest Education Cuts

Students, teachers and parents protest asking for help in our education crisis. As do i believe that the government should spend more money on education these people showed it by protesting.

California Students Protest Education Cuts 

Jesse McKinley, March, 4, 2010, New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/education/05protests.html

California Students Protest Education Cuts

Sunday, October 17, 2010

Teacher interview

For my teacher interview I asked my friend/ teacher Mrs. Real, a substitute teacher at la sierra academy. I asked her for her point of view on what she thought about schools and if they are preparing students for their future, I asked what Mrs. Real thought about money spending in schools, and if testing for placement in classes are really working. What she thought about the schools preparing for the future is that no, schools do not prepare people for their future. Schools need to show a bit more about thing that deal with the world and not just in books and things of the past but thing that are going on now. For the question on if the government uses the funds for schools wisely  she said she said that they do not use the money in the right way that they should spend it on more teachers and rooms that way class rooms can have less students per teacher and more attention. And lastly for placement test Mrs. Real said that they are helpful but she believes they do not act on what the statistics say. If they need to improve English or math they should get more help on those specific subject.