Reply to Do you support greater integration in your child's school and classroom?

Forum Index » Schools and Education General Discussion

Reply to "Do you support greater integration in your child's school and classroom?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I want to respond to a couple of things the pp said. 1) being friends with black and Hispanic kids doesn’t mean your child won’t want to go to college. Lots of them want to go to college. And children of educated and well-off families don’t decide to drop out because a girl in their math class did. 2) This one is counterintuitive but so true and literally came from the mouth of my middle schooler: if you want your student to behave well and study and be serious, put them in a school where there is a cohort of some kids who do this... and also a cohort of kids who don’t. They see why it’s a really bad idea to blow off school, dropnout, etc., and they develop an identity that they are the good students, the serious ones. [/quote]

Absolutely agree, and I think the pp fundamentally misunderstands the "choices" made by kids who don't go to college. I live a city where 85% of public school students are low income and 90% are kids of color. In 10th and 11th grade, 88% of kids say they plan to go to college, but only 45% actually enroll after high school. The problem isn't a lack of desire to go to college-it's a lack of basic information about completing the FAFSA, timelines for applications, understanding what schools will be affordable options, and the financial pressure, even with generous aid, of being an 18 year old in a family that makes $26,000 and needing help out/not ask for money for books or transportation or whatever.

In my city, white middle class kids make up about 20% of students at our very highly rated public exam school, and they go to college at the same rate as the local private school kids, and they go understanding that they are very lucky.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics