Waiting For Superman Rhetorical Analysis

The Lottery movie affirms about 51 percent African Americans and 55 percent Latino students will graduate. The movie shows a black man incarcerated for stealing and selling drugs. He spoke of how he made wrong decisions in life. Instead of an education he made the option to sell drugs for quick money. Because of the hard lesson learned, he now tries to teach his son to make good decisions in life. The federal government has been known for making predictions of how many prisons to build according to the failure rates of black boys. The average amount of money spent on an inmate is $37,000 compared to $13,000 for education. Consequently, it appears that prisons take precedence over education. Situations as this, can create a negative

The act encouraged states to conduct standardized testing so that schools nationally could reach a proficiency level of 100 percent in math and reading as projected. However, the problem is that the Unites State has only met a twenty to thirty percent proficiency rate. Compared to other advanced countries, the U. S. has met only twenty-fifth in Math and a decrease in Science at twenty-five percent. Even though billions of dollars have been dedicated toward the academic achievement of the public school system, the Coleman Report revealed negative outcomes in the standardized test scores. This is when Americans confirmed how the system was broken.
The results of low proficiency test scores that affect student’s academic performance have encouraged political activist and parents to speak out to state legislatures for permission to change their school’s leadership. In California, the “parent trigger” concept has encouraged parents to create a petition that insist on the option of closing a school, firing, reorganizing faculty and/ or