Although, the media’s coverage of small schools claims that they have had great success with attendance rates and apparently graduation rate, recent information provided by a few articles and blogs such as the one above proves otherwise. In fact, it has been discovered that the reason why these school produced such great results was because they did not have a large scale of students to begin with and they were not required to mandate the regent’s diploma. In addition, they are discriminating against Ell’s and special education students, who deserve the same quality education as the rest of the student population. Nevertheless, the DOE favors those particular schools and only provides those schools with more funding because of there earlier improvement scores on their annual report as oppose to providing those schools struggling to improve with more resources. In adiiiton, the class size has not increased in those schools. As a matter of fact, they have increased drastically.This has become a major problem for many large New York City schools that do not have enough funding to maintain extracurricular activities, services, and to pay their teachers. Therefore, instead of fixing the problems of larger schools, the problems enlarge. Eventually, this misdistribution of funds and resources also becomes a problem once the small school success becomes short-lived after they are also oblige with the mandated requirement in which all New York City schools must follow, such as state exams and more inclusion of Ell’s and special education students, which they had avoided in the start up years. Thus, this creates various other dilemmas with the school system. It becomes evident that there is no effective longevity of the small school within these already overcrowded and failing schools and ultimately it will impact student success. Therefore, in order to create an effective reform an end to the opening of more small schools and closer observation at the core of the problems of all schools should be taken into concentration.

A school must be a place where all students can learn and feel they can succeed with the support of their teachers. It should not be a place of disorganizations, a place that lacks the ability to maintain its teachers and administrators, a place where there is constant competition as oppose to unity. In addition, all students should have the opportunity to attend a small school and its purpose is to try to educate low-level student, which it has been found that it has not done so or has failed to provide equal distribution of fund amongst all schools. What I find troublesome is that their was once a clear initiatives about small schools, when they first opened in the early 1990’s, what I do not understand is the recent change of it through the Children First reform, when it had worked well in the past and also the rapid changes amongst the large schools, when what it strongly needs is solid and more gradual changes within its structure should take places as oppose to a rapid change of dividing the schools. It is unclear how the reform will benefit the existing failing schools without diagnosing the major problems of it first. Instead, the large school problems are divided in to smaller problems within the same buildings because of the Small school reform. Therefore, the problems will continue and instead of being one large problem in one school it will be the same problems in many schools.