My sociology class recently watched a video about the government and school system in New Orleans. Some focus questions that were brought up were racial change in power in city hall , the city's school board and the relationship between the school board and the city's schools. I found the previous week very interesting because I had a lot to say about it.
When thinking about the population of New Orleans it is majority Black. According to the video whites were the ones who moved to the suburbs because of crime and schools. Little do they know problems are everywhere and are hard to escape. Meanwhile the racial power in city hall has moved in the hands of the black folks. Well there is 70% of us in New Orleans.
In my last post I talked about how I would create my school system. I think it will be very successful. The city hall members in the video seemed to have somewhat of the same mind frame as myself... It's all in the COMMUNITY! Did you know that New Orleans has the highest murder rate in the nation. It takes a village to raise a child. So what is the village doing now? That's a good question to ask ourselves.
When it comes to the relationship between the school board and the city's school (in my opinion) I find it
Poor. I am a student in the city's school and I find things to be unorganized. Most of the people working for the school system seem confused and not interested. Where's the dedication? Where's the new books? Where's the smaller classrooms? Where's the money to provide our need !? We need to do better than this. I can't blame everything in the staff because sometimes it's the students too. Everyone needs to get on their "A" game and we can rise above al in excellence !
-Buttercup-____-
Nice job Buttercup (send me your name so I can give you credit). Ask yourself, how is a community created? Under what conditions might we be able to foster greater community involvement? Do you think people in the community care about education? What do you think the authors of our book would say?
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