School Visit
This report is about my visit to the Roberto Clemente Middle School in Paterson, New Jersey. The visit was conducted on April 4th, in the afternoon. It was rainy. Paterson is a densely-populated urban area, and the school is in an urban neighborhood.
The visit was conducted by Dr. Goldman, who indicated that there was some issue that day where the students were scheduled to take a district test called Parcc but the system was down so that test had to be rescheduled.
This school caters to an ethnically diverse community. Dr. Goldman estimated that around 90% of the students speak another language at home, and use English mostly for school. The students are provided with bilingual classes in some case. The area is underprivileged, and most of the students receive a school lunch and breakfast. The school also provides what was termed "full service" for around 75 students. This means providing them with glasses, dental work, pediatric and behavior service, as the families are unable to provide these things. The full service allows these students, some of whom are new to America, to have a better chance at integrating and at keeping up with their studies.
There are a lot of issues with parents who do not place much value on education, and this is reflected in things like poor behavior and poor attendance. The school has adopted several strategies for dealing with this. For kids that have poor attendance the school will sometimes have an attendance dinner, which is something where the parents and students come to the school for a free dinner. The objective is just to reconnect the students and parents with the school, and make the case that the student should be coming to school regularly. This is an opportunity to sell education to these people, who maybe do not value it or understand its value.
Another teacher we talked to later indicated that it was important to have a good relationship with the parents and the students, to keep them engaged.
There are other things that are done in terms of discipline. Students in gym class must have gym attire, for example, or they will not be allowed to participate. The gym teachers were observed. They had a strict discipline about cussing but there were a lot of...
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