Marisol Barbosa
February 2, 2009
February 2, 2009
Urban Community
The ideal family is an image of a mom, a dad and two children, a boy and a girl. Also, a home with stylish furniture and surrounded with lots of trees and of course with a white picket it fence. The mother has a career, but she decided to stay home to take care the children until they grow up. She has the choice to go back t work. The father also has a career and he goes to work everyday to support the family. Unfortunately, when we think about urban community we think about poor people, for example, single mothers, extended family, school, work place, welfare system, and health system. However, there are good people out there that want to fix the urban community so it can become a better community.
Urban Community is a group of people that live in big town or city. Also there are many types of jobs that people who live in urban community may have. Some of them work in hospital or homeless shelters. Some people are school teachers. Many times, there will be a university or college in an urban community, so some people are professors. People who live in urban community are poor, they work a lot and might work more than forty hours a week so they can support the family. Kids who should be in school are standing on the corner, smoking, talking, and doing nothing. Urban schools are dangerous because of the drug dealers. Kids have weapons in school because they are part of a gang member or might be scare of the gangs and want to be protected. According to Troy Vincent, from an article, Work of Heart, "Its worse now." Residents scratch out a living a mid blocks of abandoned, boarded-up, burned-out row houses and vacant warehouse." "Drug dealers stalk these streets; after dark, it becomes what Vincent calls "a war zone." It is ugly, sad."
Do urban teens come from broken homes? Does Bilingual education affect the kid's education? Urban teens get affected when their parents are separated. Therefore, teens hangs out with the wrong people and do bad things. Also urban schools around the country have a huge numbers of students cannot speak English. Also there are not enough teachers that are not qualified to provide language education. According to Whitaker, "Even the state's most affluent school systems have been unable to find all the qualified teacher they need." "The new federal standards are putting more pressure on school systems to hire licensed teachers at a time when their numbers are stagnant." The problems of language and education in urban school are diverse, first language Spanish speaking Lantinos.
Urban education need to be push beyond our understanding, to teach kids what we know, or think we know, about what it means to be urban. Also I want to have the chance to put into practice all of the things that I learned at the University of Montclair. To become it will be an entirely now world to me. I want to watch students to learn and to see how powerful thet could be in their immediate communities. I want to work with students from the communities in which such schools are located.
Urban Community is a group of people that live in big town or city. Also there are many types of jobs that people who live in urban community may have. Some of them work in hospital or homeless shelters. Some people are school teachers. Many times, there will be a university or college in an urban community, so some people are professors. People who live in urban community are poor, they work a lot and might work more than forty hours a week so they can support the family. Kids who should be in school are standing on the corner, smoking, talking, and doing nothing. Urban schools are dangerous because of the drug dealers. Kids have weapons in school because they are part of a gang member or might be scare of the gangs and want to be protected. According to Troy Vincent, from an article, Work of Heart, "Its worse now." Residents scratch out a living a mid blocks of abandoned, boarded-up, burned-out row houses and vacant warehouse." "Drug dealers stalk these streets; after dark, it becomes what Vincent calls "a war zone." It is ugly, sad."
Do urban teens come from broken homes? Does Bilingual education affect the kid's education? Urban teens get affected when their parents are separated. Therefore, teens hangs out with the wrong people and do bad things. Also urban schools around the country have a huge numbers of students cannot speak English. Also there are not enough teachers that are not qualified to provide language education. According to Whitaker, "Even the state's most affluent school systems have been unable to find all the qualified teacher they need." "The new federal standards are putting more pressure on school systems to hire licensed teachers at a time when their numbers are stagnant." The problems of language and education in urban school are diverse, first language Spanish speaking Lantinos.
Urban education need to be push beyond our understanding, to teach kids what we know, or think we know, about what it means to be urban. Also I want to have the chance to put into practice all of the things that I learned at the University of Montclair. To become it will be an entirely now world to me. I want to watch students to learn and to see how powerful thet could be in their immediate communities. I want to work with students from the communities in which such schools are located.
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