BlogPost 9

Many different factors make a school "good."  The most important factor is the safety of the children.  As Deborah Meier explains, "to create a safe school, we needed to have the confidence of parents, and children needed to know that their parents trusted us," (144).  The next most important thing is making the education about the students in order for them to grow as individuals.  Meier also shares, "good early childhood education, we believed, required collaboration between the school and the family," (144).  I feel that the classroom size effects a student's learning as well.  If there are too many kids in a classroom, they can't focus on what they are being taught and they will not have a personal relationship with their teacher.  The conditions of the school also effect the learning process as well.  If the school is run down or needs repairs it may be unsafe for a child to attend.  A good school is one that focuses on helping students develop and prepares them for the next school year.  This can't be done without good teachers.  A student needs their teacher to push and encourage them to try and get good grades.  A teacher can't give up on his or her students, no matter the circumstances.  From my personal experience in elementary school, the teachers stopped teaching us the curriculum and became very irritated because they felt there was no hope for us to succeed.  This made us as students feel helpless and very unprepared for our next school year.  Unfortunately, my school closed when I was in 5th grade because there was no money to support the school and only 119 children attended in kindergarten through 8th grade.  There wasn't enough space for all of us and there weren't good facilities to learn in.  A good school gives students many opportunities to learn every subject in school and activities out of school to be involved in.  Another factor that is important in a good school is diversity.  Accepting others, no matter how different they may be, is key for every child to learn in order to be successful people in the future.  A school needs to be open to any situation that may arise and offer to accommodate students to whatever they may need.





Canestrari, Alan S., and Bruce A. Marlowe. Educational Foundations: An Anthology of Critical Readings. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2013. Print.