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YATW Blog #2: Animal Cruelty Must End!
Hello, my name is Kara Heenan. If you don’t remember, my first blog was about animal cruelty. I went deep into facts and statistics on animal cruelty, included some pictures, and shared some of my thoughts on it. In this blog, I will be basically describing what I have done in terms of research since then.
I did some research on the internet and found some new great news on animal cruelty laws! The representative of Georgia is trying to create a new version of their animal cruelty law so it will be easier to go after starvation and other neglect cases. The state representative is really pushing it since it not only cleans up and clarifies the existing law, it also expands it so that torturing an animal, even if that animal does not die, is considered a felony.
A new state law helped push Pennsylvania in rankings from 17 to 12 for having the best animal protection laws in the country. The new law, known as Cost of Care of Seized Animals Act, allows a shelter to make a motion to require a defendant to pay for the cost of boarding pets before trial. It really helps these shelters with the cost of taking care of the animals which is amazing!
On the side, I also did my own original research. I decided to do field observation, which is finding a place where a lot of your problem goes on and observing it and taking notes. I chose a place in my neighborhood which had a lot of stray cats and a neglected dog. When I went, I talked to a lady that lived there and she gave me details of what goes on there. I observed two cats, one Smokey, who was very sweet, and the other, who was very shy, doesn't have a name.
Shy, distant cat. Very welcoming cat named Smokey.
There was also a dog there in it’s yard named Akita. The lady told me that this dog is always in her yard and is barely ever gets let in her house. She was very sweet and seemed very happy to see me.
I could see the sadness in her eyes.
Observing these animals was very sad. The cats suffer from abandonment and the dog suffers from neglect. Both are forms of animal abuse. These animals deserve loving homes and should not be living outside. I hope this blog really made you aware of the suffering animals go through. In my next blog, I should be including details about My Agent of Change, where I will be finally getting to help these animals. Stay tuned!
You can view my bibliography here.
Parents in Kids Education- YATW Blog #2
Hey everybody! My name is Siawale Vesslee and I attend Science Leadership Academy. This is my second blog post for my english You and the World project. To see my first blog post click here.
As many of you should know, my topic for this project is how do parents effect their child’s outlook on education. Just to give some background information on my topic, I noticed that a lot of kids in Philadelphia are not motivated to college. When I noticed this, I started to think of reasons why this was problem effected so many kids. After researching, I found that many kids don’t have parents who motivate them to receive education. After finding this out, I choose this topic for this project and I hope by the end, I will be able to influence more kids that education is very important.
Since my first blog post, I decided to find out some present statistics on my topic. In order to do this, I decided to give a survey to my fellow peers at SLA and my old school, Hardy High Mastery Charter School. After analyzing the results, I was shocked to find that out of 60 kids survey, only 27% have parents that check their homework on a daily basis. I found this very shocking because out of the same 60 kids, 92% of them have parents that motivate them to go to school. I feel that this meant that parents talk to their kids about the importance of education, but they do not actually help their kids in receiving education.This finding just shows that actions speak louder than words.
After analyzing my survey, I also found that 25% of kids said that if their parents were not around, they would not go to school. This number is lower than what I expected, but it made me a little upset. I felt this way because I feel that parents should be responsible to not only motivate their kids to go to school, but they should make kids see that learning is very fun. If kids realized this, they would be more enthusiastic about going to school. I am aware of the fact that other factors, like environment and teachers, influence kids on whether or not they like learning, but I also know that the most influence comes from the home. I feel that if parents became their child’s personal cheerleader, kids would love coming to school.
With all my information collected, I feel really kids in Philadelphia, and all over the country can do better. However, they just need the motivation. The best place that motivation can come from is no other place than their home. If parents would just take the time to help their kids, they would realize that their kids would really appreciate. I know that in my life, my parents have to work in order for me to have my daily necessities. However, because I don’t see them that often, I don’t really have a strong relationship with them. Once in a while, they do ask how school is going, but I feel that if they were around more, I would be more confident in going to school.
Overall, this topic effects not only me, but millions of kids in the US. To help shrink this project, I will be motivating kids that don’t have the motivation at home. After completing that, I will be posting my final You and the World blog post. Until that time, I hope you guys will stick around!
To see my annotated bibliography, click here.
Bullying Is Destroying Our Society! (Blog #2)
Hi, my name is Ali. I go to SLA and am currently in the 9th grade. Right now, my class has a project called ¨You And The World.¨ We had to each choose an issue we are passionate about, and we are supposed to address the theme. My theme is bullying. I have talked about this theme in my first blog post, discussing the rates of bullying-related suicides, as well as a story about a victim that committed suicide after going through excessive bullying. I also talked about which kinds of people are at risk. But with new research and survey results, I will talk more about this horrible act that is sending our kids to the graveyard.
Recently, I have put out a survey on google docs asking people about bullying. One of the questions was ¨Do you know anybody who committed suicide, or wanted to, because they were bullied?¨ Four people answered yes. It is a problem because friends and family are affected when a close one commits suicide, or wants to. This is just more proof about why bullying is hurting people. Another piece of evidence from the survey is that one person said that he/she was suicidal at one point, and another said he/she might have suicidal before. Both people were bullied. Another troubling fact is that two people said that there is bullying at this school. Even though those people said it's not a big problem, if it is not stopped, it could become a huge problem. This survey is a reminder that our society has a lot of work to do when it comes to getting rid of bullying.
Bullying is not always the only reason someone commits suicide. Kids are usually dealing with other problems in their lives, according to about.com. But bullying is not a pleasant experience to go through. So that is only hurting the depressed child more. Depression and bullying are not a good combination. That is a recipe for suicide, and that is not a pleasant result at all. Kids should not have to go through any depression, but they do. When you then decide to bully that child, you are only adding more fuel to the fire. Bullying is sometimes committed after the bully has been bullied. Another troubling fact is that bullies create other bullies. If we don't stop this, the number of bullies in the world will keep growing. And the last thing we need is more bullies destroying the lives of our kids.
(This is where bullying is sending our kids. Families and friends will never see the victim ever again in their lives. No parent should ever have to burry their own child. Why should a bully's laughter be more important that a child's life? It shouldn't, and it isn't.)
Bullying comes in many different forms. I talked a little bit about this in the first blog, buT I have more to say. There is emotional bullying. Emotional bullying is when you do thing to hurt someone's feelings. People do this by spreading rumors, teasing, finding a nasty way to humiliate the victim, or using social media/texting to make the victim feel worthless. One reason bullies do this is because they disapprove someone's race, religion, and/or sexuality. Rumors are a huge part of emotional bullying. They make people believe false things about a person, which could cause extreme hatred, dislike, or laughter towards the victim. Rumors also destroy friendships and open up a door for physical violence. Physical bullying is when violence or inappropriate physical contact is used to harm someone. This includes beating someone up, wedgies, sexual harassment/assault, shoving, and damage of property/clothes. Not only could this lead to suicide, but it could also lead to violence and/or change in the victim's actions. This type of behavior is unacceptable, and our children need to know that. When someone is bullied to the point of suicide, the victim's bullies are murderers. And murder is unacceptable.
Bullying is not good for many reasons. It is killing our children, and hurting the ones that are still alive. For my YATW service, I plan to show a presentation to kids about the deadly disease known as bullying. The presentation will address the many different forms of bullying, how bullies are murderers when their victims commit suicide, the effects of bullying, and nonviolent ways to deal with bullying. And I would like to now explain how the bullies are murderers. When a bullying victim commits suicide, the bully killed the victim. The bully tied the rope around his/her neck. The bully pulled that trigger, or slit that throat. You know why? Because if the bully hadn't committed his/her evil and deadly actions, the kid would not be in a casket. If a murderer didn't decapitate an innocent person, that person would not be dead. There is no difference. Victims should not be murdered. Bullying itself should. And with my presentation, I will remorselessly contribute to it's death with a smile.
African American students and Standardized Test Scores
My name is Brandon Jones and I am writing again on my topic of African American students and standardized tests scores. Since my last post, I have really dug deep into investigating why the test scores of African American students are so low. In this article, it gives a possible reason for why African American do so poorly on standardized tests. For example, in the article it talks about how stereotypes can be a factor in success. Unfortunately this happens to be very true in black community. One common stereotype is that African Americans do not aspire to higher education.
For my original research, I did some field work. On Thursday, February 27, I visited Ad Prima Charter School, a school with a majority of African American kids in attendance and they let me observe one of their after school classes. By just sitting in on this class, showed me that those kids are living proof that stereotypes are truly oversimplified images. Both teachers and students were passionate about learning and they showed it. I saw students that were hard at work and focusing on the task at hand. One thing that I had noticed was that almost every student had a snack with them. It made me realize that hunger plays an important role in learning. If a child is hungry, their bodies try to save that small amount of energy for basic body functions like keeping the heart and lungs going, so the rest of the body won’t have energy to think about math problems or to figure out the main idea of the story. Also the teachers were able to help any student in need, no matter the subject or what type of work it was. The sight of this just put me in awe. The fact that the teachers were able to find time in that hour and 30 minutes to accommodate every student and still be able to keep a watchful eye over the class and still get their work done, shocked me in a good way and I respect that. There was one thing that really stood out to me the most during the entire observation. One of teachers called over a 4th grader named Irving and told him to tell me about his idea. Irving asked me would I try a Macaroni and Cheese pretzel. I said I would but this really spoke to me. It shows that the teachers want kids to think creatively and to have ideas and to be the opposite of what stereotypes and society depicts them to be.
* Ad Prima Charter School
These kids are shining examples of what African American students can be. If African American students would just sit down and take the time and put in the effort to do well, then my issue would be resolved. We also need more teachers that are supportive of students. Teachers who take the time to get to know the students and to care about what the student has to think or say.
* A teacher who is helping a young black student
This picture gives me hope, of one day when we as a black community, will strive for excellence in everything we do and negative comments or biased opinions will not bring us down, but build us up and to make us stronger.
As for my Agent of Change part, I will most likely lean toward something like reading to younger kids or tutoring students who need help but until then I end this blog post with a quote by Aristotle Onassis.
“ It is during our darkest moment, that we must focus to see the light.
The link to my Annotated Bibliography is here
YATW Poor in Afghanistan blog post 2
Hello, I’m back for blog post two for YATW which is an english project designed to help the world, and get out there! As we know my blog post one is about “Poor in Afghanistan.” This time I have brought in two great interviews and three more new-updated sites! For my original research I have interviewed Ahmad Obaid Sultani and Zubair Sultani with questions about Afghanistan. Some of my questions are like, how does poverty in general affect education, health, and economy and what do you think poverty is doing to Afghanistan?. I have also found three sites that showing new information about the poor and how it is affecting real lives. These sites all are dated from Jan-Feb 2014, which means they are pretty updated! These two interviews helped me see some other people that have a good right to talk about this topic because they live in Afghanistan so they know the real stories. The web-sites talk about Afghan children Suffering irreversible harm from malnutrition and hunger crisis.
Quoted from, The Guardian: “Half of Afghan children suffer irreversible harm from malnutrition”
“Children who are not getting enough nutrients from their food suffer from what is known as chronic malnutrition. The problem afflicts poor countries worldwide, but in Afghanistan it is particularly widespread and persistent.”
When I saw this I was actually shocked in a way, because I just went on thinking about how this can impact Afghanistan and the children so much! I mean these are the children that will be the next generation of Afghanistan and if this keeps on going Afghanistan can be in trouble.
New York Times, “Afghanistan’s Worsening, and Baffling, Hunger Crisis” a story that makes my heart cry
“Fatima, less than a year old, who is so severely malnourished that her heart is failing, and the doctors expect that she will soon die unless her father is able to find money to take her to Kabul for surgery. The girl’s face bears a perpetual look of utter terror, and she rarely stops crying.”
Fatima’s story just straight up, saddens me. I wonder how much her family is grieving for their child. This just reminds me of how people in Afghanistan get sick and the most they can do is go to the doctor to see what’s wrong; they can’t even pay for healing. All they can do is pray and wait too see if there prayers are accepted.
How far can this get? Rawa News tells us, Afghan hunger crisis: “One of world’s hardest places to grow up,” says charity
“Research by the United Nations global peace organisation suggests that 55% – more than half – of children in Afghanistan are failing to grow or develop properly. Experts say that this is because young people in the country are often not given enough food in the first two years of their lives.”
Over 50 percent of the children, more than half?! That’s crazy I didn’t even know this i thought it was less than 50 percent for sure but, I was wrong! This information just makes me thankful for everything I have. Look at us we have everything but we are still complaining! I mean think we didn’t have a good home and no food, forget money. What we would we do? Just give up? From what I see that’s not an option. Now I think I don’t even have the right to complain but only to be thankful.
When I got this information I had to see what’s up by talking to people that live in Afghanistan so, I did! I interviewed Ahmad Obaid Sultani and Zubair Sultani. All this new information helps me see other people’s opinions and answers to the real story; now I also get to see more information about the hunger crisis and how that affects children there. I also now get to see what happens to school,knowledge there, and even to the economy. This also adds more understanding to our issue by showing why there is no food, school, or why sometimes the economy of Afghanistan can act up. I have learned so much in so little about this alarming issue about how children and families don’t have money to feed themselves, so that means forget school. When a population of the people of Afghanistan don’t go to school that means, when those children grow up to be the next generation; there is a good chance of chaos and a bad economy. But, I am still in wonder what do people think will become of Afghanistan and what is the plan for Afghanistan to get better soon? I think we will figure that out in blog three!
Help the next generation of Afghanistan!
All these girls can be doctors, lawyers, even a president just as long as we help a little!
For more info here are some hyperlinks:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/26/afghan-children-harm-malnutrition-growth-development
Here is my annotated- bibliography
YATW Blog 2#: Why I'm Wrong
Hello, me again, Quinn Grzywinski back for my English assignment YATW, a project which we get three blog posts out of a subject of importance to us and make a difference! It’s been, you know, quite awhile since my first blog on overpopulation, which by the you can find here if you’re not caught up to speed on what I’ve been researching and studying. So, this time around, I wanted to launch my own original research on overpopulation, not just leech information off of sources in order to make my own summary on the subject. What I wanted to learn about for this blog post was how much a problem people in my school and community actually considered overpopulation to be; I was under the notion that people in general didn't considered it seriously enough. It was pretty much the reason I chose this as my YATW project, so I was pleasantly surprised by the amount of awareness people seemed to show. But I’m getting ahead of myself aren't I? Yes I think I am; let me provide some background information on what I did for this post.
So my first step to conducting my own original research was to decide what type of research I wanted to explore. I settled on the survey option, and got to work making the questions, that asked directly how much of a problem people thought overpopulation was, and what they thought was the actual population of the world was, which country they thought had the highest population is the world and various other questions. My “hypothesis” as it were, was that people would be not aware on knowledge of overpopulation and its effects on the world, but as you can see below on my survey's results, that just simply wasn't the case.
What you see above you is graph of the results of people answers to the question “Do you know what the current population of the world is?”. Now my theory that the answers would revolve around 6,900,000,000, but as you can see, a vast majority actually got the correct answer of 7,215,000,000,000. This kinds of shakes up my opinion that this subject wasn’t very well known as a potential world-defining event in our future, seeing that nearly everybody got the correct answers for my questions. For example, one of the questions of the survey was which country had the biggest population in the world, and for the 26 or 27 people who took the survey, 23 of them guessed the correct answer of China, a country which holds about 1,390,000,000 people. Same with the other questions really, majority ruled correctly, and I find that I’m really bad at making hypotheses.
So, you might ask, what does this mean for my research and what overpopulation means for the world. Well, at first, I thought that was that. People are in fact aware that overpopulation exists and is a threat, but after I stepped back, I started to second guess this. Well yes, people have proven that they know what overpopulation is and what the number of people on earth are. Look at chart below for a moment.
This was one of my questions on the survey asking people how much they considered overpopulation a threat, scoring it 1 through 5 on the panic-o-meter. See how most people scored it about a 3. Yes there are a couple 4’s and 5’s, at least for than 1’s and 2’s, but this kind of puts into doubt how dangerous people think overpopulation is. This kind of makes me want to to redo my survey a little, putting in questions that would address the severity of overpopulation, rather than questions just asking for a number or two. Do the people that took the quiz know that we humans are estimated to run out of oil in about 40 years? Do they know that the population nearly doubled during the 20th century? So yes, I may have some regrets, but I’m actually kind of grateful for the shattering of this one-sided window I've been looking, and the awareness of global warming could be something I integrate into blog 3#.
Before I go though, I like to address possibly my biggest point I brought up in my first blog. Remember the big ominous number of 10,000,000,000 people in my first blog, which I fixated quite a bit on? Well I’d like to rectify my comments in blog 1# a little, since I've found out a bit more. I kind of decreed that once the species reached 10,000,000,000 we would all need to become vegetarians or we’d all die due to food shortage, and I said that this event would happen in 3100. In actuality, it could happen well before then, around 2070 to 2080, according to this big ominous clock, so yeah, looking forward to then.
I wouldn't call the survey a success, but I gathered some cool data, and also learned how to properly format my survey’s in the future. But since I don’t want to leave everybody reading terrified for the next couple decades, I think I’m going to refocus in blog 3# on how to actual stop overpopulation in its tracks and work out a solution. And hopefully, it might even end up tying into my Agent Of Change proposal in the end.
Thanks for reading and see you in Blog 3#!
You can look at my Annotated Bibliography here, and also my survey on my subject.
You and the World Blog #2: Litter Survey Results
In my first blog entry, I talked about how Philadelphia is known as the second dirtiest city in America, and how that has an affect on the air and our marine life. I haven't found much new information in real life, but this week I took a survey of 22 people in Philadelphia, mostly from my school, and the new information I found showed a lot about our city's causes of littering.
Of everyone that took the survey, less than half littered (10/22). And of those, none of them said that they littered often. Of everyone that littered, nearly all of them said it was because they were never near a trash can or didn’t have time to find one (9/10), and that they wouldn’t litter so much if the city installed more. Some even said that the city's trash cans were too hard to use (3/10) because they didn't want to have to touch the lid to open it. Every one of the people surveyed said that they thought littering was wrong.
I agree with the survey results. Sometimes it’s nearly impossible to find a trash can in some areas of Philadelphia. You can carry your trash for blocks and blocks, and even if you do find a trash can it doesn’t always have a recycling bin next to it. I thought it was interesting that so many people didn't litter or littered rarely. I think that if there had been a wider variety of people taking the survey then there would've been different results.
Also, I might soon be collaborating with a local business to organize a neighborhood clean up in Philadelphia. They do clean ups regularly in my neighborhood and even hire 8th graders to help over the Summer in exchange for school supplies. Stay tuned for more information.
If you would like to take the survey, visit http://www.tinyurl.com/SLAtrashsurvey.
Annotated bibliography
Hunger
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Hey, my name is Fodie Camara. My topic is hunger. I choose this topic of hunger because I want to know all about hunger and how it affects people in differents ways. When I learn it, I want to tell people and try to stop hunger. I will spread the information around to teach people about hunger and many different.
We have many different groups in Philadelphia to stop hunger or support food to programs. We have Stop Hunger Now, Coalition against Hunger, Philabundance. They all have one motto, is to stop hunger and feed people who don’t have enough meals in Philadelphia. They try their best to help people without food or in some type in trouble.
Stop Hunger Now works with international partners that ship and gives meals in country.
Volunteers come and package the meals. They serve 70% of its meals to provide programs such as school feeding programs, vocational training programs, early childhood development programs, orphanages, and medical clinics. Stop Hunger Now is an international hunger program that has been promised to stop hunger for more than 15 years. They working with school and after school programs will try to stop poverty.
Philabundance was created in 1984. Philabundance works with families hit hard by the recession. They work with seniors trying to make ends meet and they are the largest hunger group in Philadelphia. They are now able to address hunger through direct service such as food cupboards, emergency kitchens, shelters, and many more. Philabundance has take hunger really serious in Delaware Valley. They use Food donations, and the community. Philabundance helps 72,000 people per week.
People are hunger because of many different reasons. Like 5 billion in benefits cut in food stamps. Having no money can’t buy you food, so how else are people going to eat. If they don’t have no money and food stamps benefits are getting cut, how else suppose to get feed. There are even more cuts coming like, the house wants to take 40 billion dollars over the next 10 years. So they want to take even more money from benefits each year. So that is going to create even more hunger people in Philadelphia. There are a lot of effects of being hunger or not having one meal. Some effects are hunger people get sick a lot, have a chance to repeat the same grade, get horrible grades, and many more things.
Lastly, I really choose this topic of hunger because I want to know all about hunger and how it affects people in different ways. I want to get this information stuck in my brain, and teach other people about it. Feeling good about my self spreading an important topic in my school. We have so many different groups and programs to stop hunger, so we can do it. Believe in our self and we don’t have to see the pain people go when they are hunger.
You and the World Project - Blog #1 - Teens and Technology
Hi! My name is Katarina Backo and I am a ninth grader at Science Leadership Academy. I am doing a project for my English class about an issue that concerns me, and I have to write three blogs about it. This is my first blog in this series. My issue involves play time, and how technology impacts children’s activity and therefore their lives. I am an artistic, athletic person connected with my family and happy about it. I wish that everybody could have the happiness I have, but I think that wrong use of technology prevents that. Hope you’ll enjoy reading my ideas.
When given the choice, more kids and teens now will pick to use a smartphone over a ball. Everyday, I witness that not too many teens use abundant free teen programs that exist in Philadelphia. In my branch of YMCA I am one of handful of teens practicing sports on regular basis. Assuming that people are different I understand that they don’t like sports. I also attend many other activities such as The Mural Arts Program, PAFA Sunday art program for families, and Free Library of Philadelphia workshops for kids and teens, story time, karaoke parties, Science in the Summer and Summer Reading Program. Everywhere I named there are just a handful of teens as well. Where are they? Are they not informed? The most recent study by Pew Research published by LA Times says that 95% of Americans think libraries are important. Why did I not see any teens there?
To my advantage, I recently saw a picture of how children played few decades ago and how they play now.
As shown on the picture there is much less action!
Few decades ago, they were outside playing games all together. I guess that, as shown on the picture, now they are on their iPods and smartphones playing games alone. According to the latest Pew Research on teens and technology:
78% of teens now have a cell phone, and almost half (47%) of those own smartphones. That translates into 37% of all teens who have smartphones, up from just 23% in 2011.
One in four teens (23%) have a tablet computer, a level comparable to the general adult population.
Nine in ten (93%) teens have a computer or have access to one at home. Seven in ten (71%) teens with home computer access say the laptop or desktop they use most often is one they share with other family members.
In my opinion, not only that overuse of technology prevents socializing and learning from others in a real world setting, it also prevents much needed physical activity. In other words teens always use technology for everything and therefore they are not interested in arts, sports, books, family, nor spending time outside.
Playing outside nowadays!!!
According to New York Times, Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse and one of the world’s leading brain scientists said, “The technology is rewiring our brains.” Do we want to have our brains rewired? “Research is scant on the behavioral and developmental effects of technology on youth.” as said by Washington Post. However, existing research confirmed that technology ruins the ability to focus on a particular task, which I am able to notice all around. On the other side, “A 2012 University of Washington study noted that teens in general considered their rather high level of connectivity as necessary for effective cultural development and to prevent social isolation.” Pew Research survey of teachers who instruct American middle and secondary school students finds that digital technologies have become central to their teaching and professionalization.
No matter where the truth is, the big companies always get their big bucks. “Apple and Google tout their mobile devices as revolutionary tools for learning and fun - and helpful distractions for the modern parent.” Parents use that distraction to be able to finish some of their daily activities. I can see that in my little sister as well. She, like all little children is a little copycat, and she does everything we do. This graph shows what children can copy.
I love technology as well, but I think that everything should be balanced.
To view the site I got my pictures from, please click here.
To read my Annotated Bibliography, please click here.
You And The World:Public Education Blog Post #1
My name is Jason Greene and I am a 9th grader going to Science Leadership Academy. For my You and the World project, I chose to talk about public education in the great city of Philadelphia. I chose this issue because this is one of the many issues facing the city today. Public education has a lack of funding. This is important to me because me and all of my friends are affected by the lack of funding for our school district. Education is important and we need to find out how to fix this.
This is the headquarters of The School District of Philadelphia in Center City.
When my English teacher gave me and my class this project I started to think about what I wanted to do. One of my goals in life is to become Mayor of Philadelphia. Since I want to do that when I grow up I started to think about some issues that face the city today. I decided to do my YATW project on public education because I feel like it is the most significant. Most of the money goes to charter schools and not public ones. Because of this you can get a better education at charter schools. We should care about this issue because most kids in the city go to public schools and it’s not fair that kids that go charter and private schools get a better education. Coming from a public middle-school I know how these cuts feel. At my old school we don’t have a music teacher no more. I used to play trombone and was part of the all-city middle school band for three years. Since my old school doesn't have a music teacher anymore there is no more band. We also do not have an art teacher. A parent that used to be an artst now comes in twice a week to teach. Now I go to Science Leadership Academy. This is my first year here so I don’t know how this school was effected but I am sure that a this school was effected. I am just lucky that I can go to a school that can give me a great education.
This is the graduation rates of boys and girls who went to public schools from 2002-2011.
This is the graduation rates of boys and girls who went to charter schools from 2008-2012.
In 2012 The School District of Philadelphia had a 304 million dollar budget shortfall. Because of this they had to close down they had to close down 23 schools and lay off 3700 teacher,nurses,music teacher,art teachers and other workers. While all of this was happening according to labnotes.com 9 more charter schools opened and their budgets have been increased by 107 million dollars. Why would they do this? Instead of increasing the budget for the charter schools and opening new ones why don’t you use that money to fund public schools. That 107 million dollars could have saved 9 public schools. Now that makes more sense to me. Over 10,000 students are at new schools this year because the school that they went to last year is closed now.
This is University City High School. 637 students went here last year. 0 go there now.
Going on with this project there are some things I want to learn. I am going to go volunteer at my old school John Story Jenks Elementary School in Chestnut Hill. When I am there I also want to talk to some of my old teachers to see how they are dealing with the budget cuts. I will also talk to some of the students there to see if they notice anything different from last school year to this school year. I hope to find out other thing while working on this.
This is J.S Jenks. This is the school where I will be doing my volunteer work at.
This issue is very important to me. This is important to me because this is effecting me and my friends. This is also going to the kids that live in Philadelphia and get a public education in the future. I feel like no one really cares about this or say that this will change soon. I don’t want soon I want now. We could change this. If we come together and show that we care about we can change this.
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