Atlanta Cheating Scandal

   Upon reading this article about the Atlanta cheating scandal I so shocked and stunned that something like this would take place.  It is ashame that teachers and school faculty would go to such great lengths to make their school look better than it really is.  I can not believe the amount of people that were in involved in this scandal.  The rank should not really mean that much to you if you know you cheated to get there.  On the other hand, you are just being the wrong role models for the students in your school if you participate in such an act.  Instead of putting all of the time and work they did into cheating they should have been planning on how to actually improve their school in an honest way.  I was outraged after reading this article. 

Sharing is Fun!

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To (All) the Colleges That Rejected Me

I think Ms. Weiss is trying to say you have to be perfect to get into college. I would have to say I disagree with this. Yes, you do have a better chance if your resume' looks good, but hey that is how it will be the rest of her life with anything she wants to do. I think she should have used her opportunities in all the things she listed and maybe participated in some of them. No, I do not believe colleges are looking for you to do tons of events, but it is nice to know that a future student was involved during high school. This leads the college to think you can better the college in some way. I do think many people feel this way and she is expressing for those who did not have the voice to speak. I feel she was disappointed because she was in an Ivy League school when she could have just been excited for getting in to good schools.

Lalee's Kin

What is the problem? Poverty and illiteracy still exists among these people in the Delta. This leads to the school being put on probation because they have the lowest test scores. Why is it still around? This still exists because there is a lack of funding for the school to properly educate the children. The children are also uneducated because the parents do not have the means to teach them, they are uneducated themselves. How will we fix it? I believe it all goes back to the education they are not able to receive because of the lack of funding. Parents should take in to consideration if they can provide for more children before they have more children.

Gapminder

I think gapminder could be a really helpful and handy visual to use in my classroom one day. It allows the students to see statistics of many subject areas and over a long period of time. I like how you can choose the information you do and do not want to see. This is a neat website. I used gapminder to look at the countries of China, the United States, Finland, and Mexico. Since I am very interested in education I chose to look under the category of education. I decided to compare these countries under the topic of percentage of boys who completed primary school. Although Mexico shoes steady improvement and is constantly rising they are still the lowest with 71 percent. China does significantly better in the category. China comes in at 96 percent. They remain in the same area of percent without decline or improvement. Next, the United States come in very close with China at 98 percent. This does not really surprise me, this is around where I would expect us to be. Finally, with no surprise Finland comes in on top with 104 percent of completion. I figured Finland would be on top which is why I chose them to be in the comparison. Gapminder allowed me to easily make observations about these statistics.