o was to learn and how supporting his family was Alejandro could have been held back, but not with Mrs. Wright(she wasn't a very good teacher for Alejandro to have). Alejandro was way behind his class and was falling further back every day, possibly holding him back would have benefitted him later on, and could have enabled him to survive at the public highschool. I believe that with his family's support and his little engine that could attitude he could have turned that negative into a positive and became a better student because of it.4. Critique both of these portraits, identify their advantages and disadvantages for the teacher/school and student. I believe it always better to extenuate the positive rather than the negative whenever possible. But in schooling both the deficits and strengths of students have to be addressed. The deficit- model can be used to show where a student is lacking, then "responsive schooling" has to used to figure out what can be done to correct the deficiencies, if they can be fixed. Once you know the problem you can find out what the child's strengths are, and use those strengths to help correct the deficiency. Hopefully there would be parents to help out and give support. But, even if there wasn't the school could get the student extra help in the subject(s) they are deficient. Of course not all problems are school related, this is where the "responsive schooling" doesn't work because sometimes children have deeper rooted problems than just school(i.e. abusive home), it is in cases like these that deficit-model language, and "responsive schooling" would not do a lot of good. The deficit-model and "responsive schooling" is perfect for the teachers and the school because it gives them a system in which they can label a child and try to get them the one-on-one help they need without hindering the students classmates. On the other hand, "responsive schooling" could be somewhat of a burden...
