First, lets talk about teachers.It's shocking to me how much society doesnt appreciate the role of teachers. If it wasn't for the teacher in "Stand and Deliver", the students in the movie would have never realized their full potential. It seems as if society, the school officials, and the teachers placed them in a bubble of inadequacy and never expected them to burst out of it. Fortunately, there was someone who believed in them and in their potential. He wouldn't let them quit or give up when the work got too hard. These types of wonderful people that the media try to blatantly bash are what we call teachers. Your parents in collaboration with your teachers shape who you are from an early age. But in the end, our parents can only teach us so much; the rest is left up to teachers.
Now, lets talk about school conditions.With the unqualified teachers and the tattered books in "Stand and Deliver", they provided them with the bare minimum as far as education is concerned. How can you succeed in school when the books are outdated and torn apart? How can you focus on learning when you see rats in your classroom or you see the ceiling about to collapse on top of you because its full of some unknown liquid? I just dont understand how this country focuses so much on education yet there are schools that function under these conditions. If education is SO important, why are schools operating in improper learning conditions? Is it because of the neighborhoods or cities these schools are located in? Is it because of the predominate race of the students that attend these schools? Is it because no one cares if they succeed or if they fail? Is it because society doesn't expect kids who come from THIS family or THAT background to ever amount to anything? The question puzzles me because I can't seem to come up with the answer. It's hard to imagine that any one of those explanations could be true. As much as we want to believe that discrimination and segregation are issues of the past, they are still present in the most subtle ways. Thats what scares me.
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You have a very valid point that teachers are important to the education of students. As for the questions you ask, there is no way of really answering them. It can only be determined by the way people turn out later in life, but every situation and circumstance is different. Some questions are just best left unanswered, mostly because they can't be.
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