Failing Schools

                Schools that are in lacking funds and resources will have a hard time teaching the students and helping them understand the courses. Students in this type of environment will not learn anything and will be thrown into the real world without the knowledge that they need to succeed. In Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol its states “I visit four classes taking places within another undivided space. The room has a low ceiling. Again no windows”(105). The students in these classes will not learn anything because of the type of environment. The information that the teachers are trying to give to the students will not be heard because of overlapping voices from the teachers and the noise from the four classes. These circumstances force the students to fail and destroying their future after school.

                Tennyson High in Hayward is a great example of a school that is struggling because of no funding. Tennyson High is scoring 658 API which is 148 less from the statewide goal of 800 API. Since of the low scores it has received less funding than the school that are scoring higher than them leaving them with few resources to help their students. If they receive little funding because of the low test scores then they will not have the resources to help the teachers to teach more thoroughly and help their students so they can get a higher API score the next time. This system is only hurting the schools that have low test scores because it will be harder for them to break the statewide goal because of they are lacking the resources and funds and in the end get them to fall farther and farther from the goal.

                Tennyson High is fairly similar from the schools that are talked about in Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities. These type of schools are getting little funding because of the system that belittles the schools that have low test scores. The system needs to be change so that the schools that are struggling get more funding so they can help students that are in their schools. If this system continues to thrive then we will see a lot more schools that will fail the students in their institution because they have no means to help them succeed.