Daisy Vargas

My Opinion On Xenophobia

"Testing To Create Dropouts"

By: Nat Hentoff


Just by the title you can tell what this article maybe about. The title has the xenophobic problem in this article. It tells us how the students are now getting kicked out of school just by failing one test.
It is not right that only because students fail a state test they get to be kicked out of school. They have to have another chance at least. The "No Child Left Behind", George W. Bush legislation, is not right because every student has a right to have another chance. Students shouldn't be kicked out of school just because they failed a state test. It is so wrong if a teacher or a pricipal tell you that you are "too old" to be in school because everyone can stay in high school until they are 21 years old. Which creates more drop outs every year.
Since there are more drop outs I think that Joel Klien should do what Judge Jack Weinstein ordered last year to the Department of Education. He odered them to send out letters to all the students that droped out or had being discharged out of Franklin K. Lane High School. Asking them why they left the school, what have they being doin since and their student rights.
I think that before any student gets pushed out of school or drops out they should be well informed of what their rights are.


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