post 5

My volunteer work at community academy public charter school has taught me a lot about the difficulties of educating children. So, many of the kids in the class come from working class families that are just trying to get buy. Their parents want them to do there best but do not always have the time to help them. So, at six they are on their own to make sure that they do there work and go to bed early when they have a test.
The teacher has to work around this and the distributive students. in first grade many illnesses like ADHD have not been diagnosed yet. The teacher has to work with these students, though they have no medicine to help them. This takes away time with working with they other students, and distracts the class.
I have also learned that these kids have a lot of pressure on them. They have to make sure they know all their spelling works and can read at grade level. This last week they had to prepare for the national standardized tests. when taking a practice test many of them where not able to read the questions, and if they could sound the word out did not know what it meant. I could see that many of them became frustrated and stopped trying because they felt bad that they did not know what was going on in the test. These schools do the best they can, but many kids come in behind. they have only just started to read, and write. They are expected to teach them to a standard these kids can not reach in such a short time and it makes most of the kids frustrated with learning. It seems that these kids want to learn, but some feel like they are not good enough to get things done.