NEW HAVEN, Conn. – High school teachers did not expound upon one thing: our previous knowledge, freshman Jordan Bender, 18 said. Sentence Pattern 10 Bender said her high school had 350 students in total and approximately 90 students in her grade. The size of the school impacted the amount of funding her school received. Drama and sports were the only extracurricular activities that were available and her education was solely based on a curriculum the state implemented, she said. “I felt I was not as prepared for college as I should have been,” Bender said. “I learned how to write resumes in my freshman english class and while that was useful, teachers were focused on the same thing every single year.” The US department of Education found that the Every Student …show more content…
The ESSA was signed by president Obama last December as a revision to the NCLB act which left a gap in the quality of education students received. Not much has changed since 1999, and students are still under prepared in math Nicole Henderson, director of first year experience said: “Majority of Southern’s students are placed in developmental math courses. We can also say this is also true for writing and reading.” Henderson said that the reason for the educational gap is a complex process that has many determining factors. She also said she would never blame high school teachers because it is not their fault that they cannot accommodate all students who may not be at the level the curriculum requires them to be. Students could be going through a number of issues that may impact their performance in school, like the loss of a friend due to suicide or they haven’t got anything to eat the next day, she said. Freshman Dalisha Colon said: “I think I adjusted well and I made the dean’s list my first