
Through the time, our country has built thousands of schools. These schools may be similar to others or very different to others ones. These differences can be appreciated in more than one sense. There are differences in terms of construction, sources, teachers, students, etc.
There are some schools which are called “the best ones”, in which we can find many sources, good buildings, good relationships between students and teachers, etc. The problem comes up in the schools that lack of all of these characteristics. There are schools in which teachers do not even have a marker to write in the whiteboard! This can not be happens if, on the other side, we have schools that do not even think about a problem like this.
During my experience in classrooms I have recognise a situation that Jane Jacobs in her article “the death and life of great American cities” describes as ´Low-income project that become worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than slums were supposed to replace´(1). I have observed how our governors have destroyed the education in the sense that they only have built buildings but not people. I saw how students use their schools to promote vandalism, disrespect and drugs.
What I would apply in classrooms is to create conscience about what a school, a neighbourhood and public places mean. I am exhausted from seeing how students do not realise what they have because nobody tells them what they have and for how it is it useful. What I want to do in classrooms is to promote respect with each other, with places and with the atmosphere that surrounds to every student. Doing this, the student’s behaviour could change and we would not see again a badly usage of what they have.
Hi, Angel
ReplyDeleteI like your approach in this post. Your assertions about the necessity of fairly distributing resources and the need to create communities and not just buildings are very insightful.
Please be sure you follow the instructions for the blog post. You were required to include the Gladwell abstract, and you did not need to use emphatic language. In fact, remember that you only use "do" to contradict a statement (you would need to revise: "I do have realised").
another correction:
I am exhausted *from* seeing how students do not realise what they have because nobody tells them what they have *or how* it is it useful.