Rizga provides a different point of view when looking at education. She shows how almost everything Gatto stated was inaccurate as she spent a year inside of San Francisco’s most challenging/failing school Mission High School. She experienced the truth of the schooling system through first hand experiences as well as reporting the struggles and challenges a senior student named Maria faced. Rizga’s article refutes Gatto’s statement that “It is in the interest of the complex management, economic or political,to dumb people down, to demoralize them to divide them from one another, and to discard them if they don’t conform.”(Gatto 97)
Rizga refutes Gatto’s statement because she shows how Mission High School was inappropriately misjudged by a flawed system. Mission High School is called a “failing school” yet it has hard working and dedicated teachers as well …show more content…
However Gatto says that schools are filled with bored students, who find the work dull and repetitive, and bored teachers, who lack the motivation and the knowledge to make the work interesting. Rizga stated that “Judging from what I’d read about ‘troubled’ schools, I’d expected noisy classrooms, hallway fights, and disgruntled staff. Instead I found a welcoming place that many students and staff called family. After a few weeks of talking to students, I failed to find a single one who didn’t like the school, and most of the parents I met were happy too.”( pg 86) This shows that even though Mission High School is divided from more recognized schools and is considered a failing school and had been identified as a low performing school, one of the lowest five-percent in the nation. Among parents and students they are shown to have the highest satisfaction rank in San Francisco. This shows how both the students are willing to learn and that teachers are willing to
Rizga refutes Gatto’s statement because she shows how Mission High School was inappropriately misjudged by a flawed system. Mission High School is called a “failing school” yet it has hard working and dedicated teachers as well …show more content…
However Gatto says that schools are filled with bored students, who find the work dull and repetitive, and bored teachers, who lack the motivation and the knowledge to make the work interesting. Rizga stated that “Judging from what I’d read about ‘troubled’ schools, I’d expected noisy classrooms, hallway fights, and disgruntled staff. Instead I found a welcoming place that many students and staff called family. After a few weeks of talking to students, I failed to find a single one who didn’t like the school, and most of the parents I met were happy too.”( pg 86) This shows that even though Mission High School is divided from more recognized schools and is considered a failing school and had been identified as a low performing school, one of the lowest five-percent in the nation. Among parents and students they are shown to have the highest satisfaction rank in San Francisco. This shows how both the students are willing to learn and that teachers are willing to