Improving schools in bad neighborhoods

Geralda Gjergjaj

Composition#6, draft#3

Nov 18, 2009

Dear Mr. Mayor,

Recently I heard on the news that you have received a large donation. I know that you have to options. One is to improve the schools in bad neighborhoods and one to improve the quality of the neighborhoods near tourist attractions. I know that is a hard decision, but you have to think what the best choice for the city is. I believe that you should use the money to improve schools in bad neighborhoods because it will increase jobs, kids are going to learn arts and many new programs are going to be available.

First of all we know that education is a big problem. Many of New Yorkers are dropping out from school in a young age. More than 60% of children’s cannot read English in fourth grade. This number is very disappointed for the United States. Schools in bad neighborhoods need some help. Many of the kids need a lot of help from the teachers and some teachers doesn’t help the kids so the kids are missing many of the lessons they are behind and of course they drop out of school before finishing high school. We all know that rich schools have better teachers than the poor schools. If you give better teachers to poor schools you will increase the education. Kids are going to take seriously the lessons and they are not going to drop out of school and they are going to continue their studies. Is very important to improve the education and of course those kids need your help for being successful in their lives.

Secondly, if you decide to give the donation to improve schools it will help kids a lot. After school some of the teachers or substitutes teachers can stay in school to do new lessons or help kids that need help with their homework and is going to be a great idea, because many parents are working and they can’t be on time to take their kids after school. Also the school can create some classes for adults. Many immigrants don’t know how to speak in English so they understand nothing. They can’t help their kids to improve in English and kids are behind in school, so of course they can’t succeed. By doing these classes for the parents, many of the kids are going to improve their skills. The school can have some ESL teachers to help kids who are some months in The United States and need extra time for English class. It will help those kids a lot because many of them they can’t speak. Also their parents can’t help them because they don’t speak either. Learning a new language takes time and it’s not easy at all. Creating these programs in those schools it will improve language and basic skills also can help adults and parents.

Finally by improving the schools in a bad neighborhood it will give a chance to the kids who really care or they have a talent on arts. A music class can provide many good singers. It is a good opportunity for those kids who have a good voice to start training their voices. They can also do a CD with of school and they can sell it to earn money by selling the CD’S. Dancing is a really good job too. Kids can start dancing from a young age and they can become professionals. They can also go to talent shows and win some medals. Another good art is painting. We don’t have many painters at this time so some professional painters can help kids to be successful in this category of art. It is a great opportunity to learn arts, and especially when you are young you can learn easily and faster than an adult. Art classes can be useful only to the people who really care about it or to the people who have talents.

Improving schools in bad neighborhoods gives opportunity to learn arts, language, and of course jobs are going to available. It’s a great opportunity to improve those schools because kids need a better neighborhood. They need a good neighborhood because they are going to be happy and enthusiastic everyday that they go to school.