I am not going to lie. A 2 1/2 hour class on long readings can seem a bit overwhelming at times, but some parts of the discussion really hit home for me. I personally liked today's readings because I feel closely linked to them. All of us encounter the college tuition problems. I come from a good family with two working parents and I have a 3.94 GPA.. yet I still PAY for college. My SAT's weren't to Montclair's liking - so I'm not helped out...
Besides that issue.. the foster care article got to me. My parents took in a 15-year old boy back in 2000. He was a special education student who came from a broken family with no money and his father dropped dead unexpectedly. His family came from a drug-invested background and there was a lot of domestic violence. When his family got evicted, my parents took control. He was on the honor roll, attending school everyday, and working part-time. Once his mother needed him to go back home to help pay rent for the family's new apartment... he quit school, got hooked on drugs, got arrested periodically, and wound up overdosing on drugs. My parents helped this kid out. In my opinion, if he would have stayed with us.. he would still be here. Foster families aren't as bad as you think.
As for the statitistics... I was quite shocked how society viewed the importance of education. It is almost a shame that the parents, students, teachers, and pricipals come so low on the education scale also because they are the people that you think of when you say the world "school." It is ridiculous how
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