...Final Service Learning Paper My service learning for my class here at ACC was at Mc Bee Elementary School. Mc Bee is located on Braker lane and is what I would consider to be a lower working class income school. The school is a recognized campus scholastically. The primary make up of the school is Hispanic children many of which are enrolled in Bilingual and ESL classes. The overall setting of the school is a happy one while walking the hallways I only see smiling happy children. The classroom that I was assigned to was a fourth grade monolingual class. I worked with the class during their math time. My classroom was made up of 23 students the majority of which were boys. There were only 8 girls in the classroom. The makeup of the class was all Hispanic with the exception of 3 African American children, 2 of which were boys. My classroom setting was also very strict. The students were constantly being scolded for any fidgeting, moving or simply talking to their neighbor. The students whom I worked with mainly were two girls who were at their own table. These two girls probably had the most trouble with Math in their class. They also had trouble with other basic skills such as reading and simple math computations. These two girls have a hard time with their multiplication and addition skills. When I work with them on I make sure to implement reading into their lesson as well as the math aspect of it. These two girls socio economically I feel are middle class and have...
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...The World Economic Forum ranked South Africa’s quality of education 140th out of 144 which is lower than Lesotho and Swaziland. This causes us to think whether the state has or has not failed to provide quality education for its citizens. After the apartheid era South Africa had become a democracy. With the start of this democracy and the new Constitution of the Republic of South Africa 1996 there had been a transformation in South Africa’s education system. A transformation in the system was exactly what South Africa needed because of the previously destructive policies, legislation and practices implemented under the apartheid era which segregated black students and other races apart from whites. This caused blacks and other minority races to be disadvantaged because the whites were seen as the superior race which meant that the blacks and other racial minorities suffered severe educational,social and economic disadvantage. However the Constitution of 1996 and a COMPREHENSIVE number of education laws that have been applied have been transforming the South African educational system at all levels. Another example is the South African Schools Act 84 of 1996 which provides for a uniform system for the organisation, governance and funding for all schools in the country. The purpose of the Act is to provide high quality of education aswell as addressing past injustices. The government’s plan for educational reform is also included in this act. The Act provides for the following:...
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