A+ Education Issues Blog

          Hello Everybody! This week's post will cover the community comparison project. I choose to focus my project on Oceanside and Hempstead, but this post will reflect on Wantagh and Wyandanch. The districts are roughly the same size but have some serious differences. The majority of Wantagh students are white while the majority of Wyandanch students are black or hispanic/latino. From our studies throughout the semester we have seen that districts where a majority of the students are white traditionally are better performing. This rings true for Wantagh, they have a higher 4 year graduation rate as well as a higher standardized test scores than Wyandanch. This can be attributed to the fact that Wantagh has a higher budget and spends more money per student than Wyandanch  Schools are funded by taxes and since houses in Wantagh are more expensive than Wyandanch they receive more school funding. . Personally I was not surprised when looking strictly ...

  Hi everyone! This week’s post is discussing parental involvement in education. Parents play a large role in schools. After watching the BOE mee ting for my town it was interesting to learn how much the community really does affect schools. At the BOE members of the community (mostly parents) got to voice their opinions and concerns. I feel that a few of the issues parents are worried about could be avoided by having better teacher parent relationships. Part of my job as a competitive gymnastics coach is explaining to parents why their child got the score they did on an event. The simple answer is that they earned it, but for some reason they do not feel that is the case and they cannot grasp that their child is responsible. I am still mastering how to deal with parents but I know that they play a large role in whether their child will score well at competitions. For example the parent can stress the importance of stretching at home, they can teach their child to listen to me, the...