All over Chicago about 14,000 students apply to a selective enrollment high school(Stanciel). About 4,000 get accepted. All other children who were not accepted into the best schools in Chicago are faced with going to schools with a poor academics system. The Tier system is their ticket to a good future. Most of these 14,000 students worked hard in order to be in schools like Jones, Whitney, Northside, Payton, etc. CPS students begin to question their worth, their brain, their effort all because the CPS tier system.
The students that attend high school come across the objectification of their neighborhoods and surroundings. The Tier system has specific qualifications to be accepted into a selective enrollment school for each tier. A student from tier 4 gets a higher score on the test than a child from tier 1 yet is not accepted to a good high school although the tier 1 child has. It causes this particular student to loose hope in having a good future instead of creating his own future. The Tier system defies the "No Student Left Behind" saying since it pushes out good students to make room for other children who received poor education in middle school. Anyone who does not make the cut to get into a good high school is labeled to have a bad future already. The student himself/herself feels as though they will have less of a good future than one who did meet selective enrollment qualifications.
On the inside of these schools, students have a feeling of superiority over other students from other schools or even within the same school. This creates separation or cliques with in the school system. The rich kids hang out with the rich kids, the middle class with the middle class. Kids from the North side are friends with others from the North side while the South side kids mingle with each other. They choose to associate themselves with others that are most similar to them in order to feel more comfortable. Thus the idea of superiority become present in their minds. The tier system is the cause of this since it labels a child for others to judge them as they are labeled.
Sources:
Stanciel, Tracy A. "CPS Selective Enrollment Letters Affect The Lives of Over 14,000 Teens." N.p., 1 Mar. 2013. Web.
Bogira, Steve. "A Better Goal for CPS ." Chicago Reader. N.p., 13 Nov. 2013. Web. 27 Feb. 2014.
The students that attend high school come across the objectification of their neighborhoods and surroundings. The Tier system has specific qualifications to be accepted into a selective enrollment school for each tier. A student from tier 4 gets a higher score on the test than a child from tier 1 yet is not accepted to a good high school although the tier 1 child has. It causes this particular student to loose hope in having a good future instead of creating his own future. The Tier system defies the "No Student Left Behind" saying since it pushes out good students to make room for other children who received poor education in middle school. Anyone who does not make the cut to get into a good high school is labeled to have a bad future already. The student himself/herself feels as though they will have less of a good future than one who did meet selective enrollment qualifications.
On the inside of these schools, students have a feeling of superiority over other students from other schools or even within the same school. This creates separation or cliques with in the school system. The rich kids hang out with the rich kids, the middle class with the middle class. Kids from the North side are friends with others from the North side while the South side kids mingle with each other. They choose to associate themselves with others that are most similar to them in order to feel more comfortable. Thus the idea of superiority become present in their minds. The tier system is the cause of this since it labels a child for others to judge them as they are labeled.
Sources:
Stanciel, Tracy A. "CPS Selective Enrollment Letters Affect The Lives of Over 14,000 Teens." N.p., 1 Mar. 2013. Web.
Bogira, Steve. "A Better Goal for CPS ." Chicago Reader. N.p., 13 Nov. 2013. Web. 27 Feb. 2014.