Failing Schools Could Close Down

In East Side Los Angeles, California, schools are struggling to stay open in the gang-infested neighborhoods. Not even one in five of the students have been able to receive grade level in math and English, in the past 6 years. This past year at Abraham Lincoln High School, only 7 in 100 students received grade level, and in Woodrow Wilson High School, 4 in 100 were at grade level. The No Child Left Behind Law is going to extremes. The law wants to fire teachers and principals and shut schools and turn them over to private firms, like a charter operator or the state itself. Most of the schools have not been even effected by these laws because parents complain that most schools are like that in these areas and they can not shut down every school.

School problems have been going on for a while in History. In the 1060s, while Civil Rights were at large, many schools had to involve the government because black students were actuallaly alloud in the all white schools. Garfield High, in Seattle, becomes the first Seattle High School with 50% non-whites. There were many problems but because of the almost half and half circumstances, it did not last.