, especially for smaller schools without the resources to have extra teachers on staff to help children with minor or major learning deficits. One problem that arises with these two systems is that they require quality teachers to both catch the problems and correct them. As we saw in Carger's case study of Alejandro, some teachers just assume that a student is slacking and doesn't care if he has a problem or not. Mrs. Wright did this to Alejandro and his classmates, she made fun of how they talked, and she made Alejandro repeatedly write the names capitals of forty African and Asian nations ten times each, because he did poorly on a geography quiz. She knew that Alejandro had a deficit when it came to memorization(43), she either didn't believe or care that he had a deficit The one major problem with this system as with many other educational systems, is that it requires good teachers to make it work properly.5. Drawing from the material we have discussed this semester and your own ideas and experiences, describe how you think schools could best respond to Alejandro's situation? I think schools simply need to become smaller, teachers can not be expected to give ample attention to every student when they have twenty in their class. Alejandro was behind to begin with and he fell further and further behind, because the teachers could give him the help he deserved without bringing down the rest of the class with him. At the Latino school Alejandro was in the best possible position, but when he went to Crown High he got lost in the shuffle and dropped out. If the private school was at would have went all the way through highschool I think he would have graduated, or at least would have gave highschool a lot better effort. But to do this public school system need to have more money, money they really can't get from local taxes alone. In Conclusion, Alejandro's story, though very sad is a very common one, and until we ...
