Kevin Leininger of the New-Sentinel is again all wrong about students coming from low income families. There are some students who are emotionally and mentally behind their peers coming from low income and high income families. What these students have in common is an opportunity to be taught by qualified adults in a safe environment together. Teachers who are committed to the art of teaching children, not adults but children who learn in difference ways.
The teachers will have to be able to adapt to the learning style of many students. Sometimes, a concept will need to be repeated again and again for a student to fully understand. Students who are on the border simply need in house tutoring, right on the spot. Not after school, not in a special building but right in the school. This tutoring should be qualified specialized tutors in subjects such as language, math and English in the lower grades.
Older students will need tutoring during their lunch time or study period, If some of these students are on academic probation they should be required mandated to attend these sessions. Centers should be certified if they provide tutoring only if they have qualified teachers in certain subjects. Many students attend centers and the volunteers are ill-equipped to provide tutoring to these students.
A tutor must get to the level of the child's subject comprehension and after that must get involved in motivating the child to incorporate the new material into the child learning style as well teaching the child alternative ways in learning new material. This especially true with Fort Wayne Community Schools international make up of students in the classroom.
It would be great that all children parents are involved in their education. But, in the real world it's not, so do we punish these children? As an adult you would think not. But some of our adult leaders, news reporters and adult teachers believe so. And we wonder why children do not look up to adult role models in our civil community?
A teacher is to teach, and the reward is to see a student overcome that obstacle in the way of the child understanding. Teachers burn out and a plan to support and encourage them to team teach connects teachers to the success of all students rather than a few can only help the overall academic achievement of Fort Wayne Community Schools.
Many students come to school with emotional problems that go undetected, but schools should be their safe place. And that safe place should mainly focus on teaching that child that education will help you surmount the shortcoming of their parents or environment. Children just need TLC no matter the condition of the their parents economic situation or circumstances. When a child is abused it is not the child fault.
The issue of the cost of the school, is the failure to take care of the schools in the urban core. Now that you can not expand, you have to do what you should have in maintaining these schools. The failure of city leaders to be fiscal responsible with taxpayers' tax dollar is coming to light, and to try to suggest that improving these school will not help these children you are wrong, wrong.
These buildings are probably the only safe place for many abused and neglected children. Go volunteer an hour a day and teach a large group of children (not 1 or 2) to read and write. Why don't you support your republican leader, Governor Mitch Daniel call to eradicate brain drain in Indiana. Adults have failed our children and now we all have to pay including those who don't care whether or not poor children receive an education. Teach.
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