Reborn

 These are just some notes I took down as I was watching this film in class about New Orleans name "Reborn".

• young black students have high expectations of being sucessful in thier career
• public education needed a change in New Orleans
• charter schools was the change
• a young male says things are getting better but he think there are still challenges that face him ahead
• a charter school is a public school that controlss its own budget and curriculm and hires its own staff
• they have 57 kipp schools in 17 states
• charter schools hire new teachers from all over the nation to try to change things becuase they sterotype the old teachers
• McD 35 is during better than most charter schools and our school is ran by african americans who have been teaching in the city for years
• it seem like the man in charge of the kipp schools is trying to control them, make them have a one track mind (Donisha Banks)

Football Game

Last week I attended a football game against 35 and walker and as expected you see gender there . They have the foot ball players who are male and the cheerleaders who are female but on the other cheerleading team they had a male . Now at a football game  you use to seeing males on the field not cheering in the stands . Ths goes against what gender is , which  is the expected behavior associated with one sex. People always think women can't play football because its a man sport and men can't cheer because its only for women .
(Donisha Banks)

Reborn "Live Blog"

• For every 10 students who reach high school in New Orleans , fewer then 6 graduate.
• I feel that until the education get right nothing in New Orleans will get right.
• Prior to Katrina there was so many problems., New Orleans is one of the only cities in the nation that doesn't have a school system but a system of schools. This is not helping all the problems that are going on. More then half of the students attending schools in New Orleans attend Charter Schools.

McDonogh 35 is a public school, which they are criticising in this film, but last year McDonongh 35 had the largrest graduation rate, greater then any Charter school except for O.P.Walker.

• In this film they talked about the KIPP Charter School, where in my opinion was racial dynamics. KIPP is bringing in many young white New England teachers, who want to change everything but want to do it there way. They didnt want any help from former New Orleans teachers.
• KIPP / Charter Schools are trying to have total mind control over the students.
• The Students dont get to have an opinion of there own.
• The students are treated like animals, working for a treat etc.

Reborn..

"If the public school system working, leave it alone," is a quote I agree with the most. However, New Orleans public school system is  working. Before Katrina, the school system was so horrible, people didn't want to invest their time nor money. Today, more than 50% of New Orleans schools are Charter. This was the best decision for New Orleans schools ever. There are over 100 charter schools across New Orleans, KIPP alone has 57. The only down side to Charter schools are the fact that it's not really as "Public" as it appear...
•This KIPP school is like a jail though, not at acceptable. This is my personal opinion.
•I feel, they're treating the kids like Slaves.

Reborn

One of the spokesmen in reborn stated that "If our education in New Orleans is not right then nothing else will not be right"! I believe that is absolutely true because if our students are not getting the proper education then how will we have a future.

A charter school is a public school that controls its own budget and curriculum and hires its own staff.

After Katrina Kipp had classes at a  temporary site of Tulan University. There was racial dynamics going on their after Katrina. Its seemed like treated them as if they were in jail. ( Mind Controlled the students) Elementary students should not be treated like prisoner. How will you ever learn if you are being tortured on everything you do.

"Knowlege is Power"
I feel that every student from elementary school to college has knowlege but does not put it to power.

•If you are trying to help students learn to get to college then why torture them as if they are slaves.

"If you believe you cant just speak it,you have to show it"
-Meining Stated

Even though I do not care for the principal at the time, some quotes that was stated were true.

•Students are being pushed out of school instead of dropping out.

-Myeisha Keith

Disaster in Our Schools

What I believe in may be a totally different belief from others or it may be the same to others!

I think that Hurricane Katrina has a big impact on the changes in our schools and crime in our city. Watching the video has made me really open up my eyes and realize that the students are not blame for our schools dropping the way they did. I also think that Hurricane Katrina is the blame for all the killing that’s taking place in our city today.

The political life of the city has changed where there were 70% African American Populists and the whites think that the city is theirs. I’m not a racist person but I honestly think that it is still that way till this day and that’s the reason for our schools being split up the way that they are.

With 65,000 public school children among the government during hurricane, I wonder if they had a question off the top of their head on what they will do to continue to give our students the proper education that was needed.

The School Board had a huge debate on who they wanted to be the Orleans Parish Superintendent. With a tie Anthony Amato won because of his record of Achievement. It was known that Louisiana had the poorest learning education and 29% children living in poverty and the School Board members wanted to know what he was able to do to fix it.   

The relationship between the school board and the city’s school is that they were wasting their time arguing on what needs to be changed instead of making a change to help us as students in school. Also the relationship is that not only the teachers were stealing money from our students but also the Anthony Amato.

I have much more to say and I think that we should discuss this in our class!

~ Myeisha Keith

The Truth Behind New Orleans School Systems

    In the past decades the political power have shifted in New Orleans. Whites moved away to escape school poverty. Public education ranks the worst in New Orleans and Louisiana is the poorest state in the nation. Schools in New Orleans are so messed up . They are always telling us about how the students not doing well I'm standardize testing but I don't feel like they are doing anything to change that.
    My personal opinion is  I think the school board sucks. What do they do for the students, nothing! Recently we had a college fair at the Convention Center , schools from all over were going but our school didn't go because the school board didn't provide busses for us to go. It was from 9-12 which of course is doing school time , and other schools went to the college fair on a fieldtrip so why we didn't do the same?  I'll tell you why because the school board said they didn't have any money for us to go and because other schools in our district wasn't going we didn't need to go. This was an opportunity for students to get information about colleges and try to determine their futures. This college fair was educational and it was to help us .Students really  wanted to participate in the college fair  but because we didn't have any busses they told us to go to the 6-8  one and a lot of students didn't have a way to get there after school. The motto is No Child Left Behind but in this case they left plenty of children behind.