Savage Inequalities ch 2 &3

I can really relate to how individuals react towards sending their children to schools based on their reputations of their success with their students and the quality of their teachers. After I had finished the sixth grade in elementary, I was supposed to  move on to the middle school in my school district; however, my mother felt that the middle school and high school in my area were not adequate enough based on the reputation it was given from the media and parents who have sent their children there. So my mother had to fill out paperwork for every school year I had gone at a neighboring school district in order for me to avoid attending the schools in my neighborhood. Even through the hassle of the documents every year, the longer car commutes, and money they had to spend for me to attend school in a different district my parents decided it was worth the troubles and did this process for both me and my brother’s school years from seventh to twelfth grade.  Looking back I do feel that their actions of putting me into a more diverse and reputable school was worth the inconveniences because the schools that I attended gave me such a variety of opportunities in courses and academic curriculum. I do not know what my life would have been like had I went to the school set by my school district, but I do feel like it would not have been such a positive influence in my growth as a student. My parents had the ability to go through this process of getting me and my brother into schools that were known to be better than the schools in my district, but not everyone is as fortunate to have the capability to do such a thing. The children in St. Louis are not blessed with such extravagance such as the option to attend a higher quality academic establishment. They are forced to go through the endless and never-ending process of transferring into drop out establishments were school are filled with failed teachers that will not provide their students with the necessities to succeed in the next grade level. So as a result, a good percentage of a high school’s population will drop out in the beginning years due to the lack of quality in instructors and instruction. It is a great disservice we as a nation are doing to such children of these schools that cannot allow them to receive the finer education others are being allowed to experience. However, this is known as a huge problem but there are such difficulties in how we can fix or approach the situation based on teacher contracts and how we can provide quality teachers to the students.