I have been working in an elementary school for the past 4 years as a Special Services Assistant. This experience has provided me with the opportunity to work with children who have emotional, behavioral and/or learning disabilities. In helping students on a one-on-one basis, I have found it to be both challenging and rewarding. It is challenging in that some students may have not just one but overlapping disabilities that need to be addressed daily across the academic and social spectrum. It is rewarding because you see the progress that these students are making within the academic year.
In many Chicago schools, as students move through middle school and onto high school the underlining issues that create poor or failing academic achievement intensify. Identifying the causes of school failure and high student drop out rates seem apparent, unfortunately the solutions are elusive. In general terms, research focuses on demographics in attempting to understand the etiologies of failure.
Chicago Public School (CPS) report cards analyze a broad spectrum of demographic variables that provide a profile of each of CPS's high schools. Steinmetz High School on Chicago's west side offers a profile that could be used to quantify characteristics that exist throughout Chicago Public Schools. Attached is the report card on Steinmetz High School. http://schoolreports.cps.edu/StateSchoolReportCard/ssrc_2007_unit1560.pdf. So why do these numbers exist? What are the underlining reasons for drop out rates? Will reviewing the data, help us to determine what happened to Bryan?
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