By: Kristin Tanner

Kristin Tanner — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 04:38:45 +0000

The district should address its lowest achieving schools by giving equal resources to those schools. The schools mentioned above do not have the programs or resources as the high performing schools. This is a capitalistic society, Equal money begets equal resources. These kids come from socio-economically challenged families so their schools have less. The textbook excuse is parent participation. Well parents who dont have resources can not possibly donate and volunteer as much as the parents who are more well off. If a school has parents that are solvent then more money should go to the low performing schools where the parents do not have money. There should be district-wide equality to help all the schools. Thats what it meant when America said “Bring us your tired and your poor.” All of the children in this district are our concern because those bay point children will grow up and be a part of the society that the clayton kids will be in. We should want the same for all of the kids. But as it stands, Meadow Homes which is a few miles away from Valle Verde has only 2000 books in their library compared to Valle Verde’s 10,000. Is there any wonder why Meadow Homes will have lower scores? This district leaves many students behind on a daily basis. Its too big to manage itself. Its broken and there’s no excuse for this failure in an SF Bay Area school district in 2010.

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By: Kristin Tanner