Blog #7 Finn Literacy with an Attitude

    

March 13th, 

    Today, I am going to be talking about chapters 1 and 2 of Finn Literacy with an Attitude. This book had a lot of really good information. Overall, the book is about all the different schools and information about them based on their class. In the chapter, it was an educator who worked in a Middle school for eight years and taught social studies and language. This particular school split the students up by there reading scores. Once the students were separated, the teachers with more seniority had the kids with the high reading scores, and the kids with the lower reading scores were with the educators with less seniority. When I was reading this, I thought that it was really odd. I personally don't think that splitting students up by their learning level is beneficial because I think that all students have strengths and weaknesses, and so when students are together, they can help each other learn through one another's weaknesses and strengths. As a student who always scored low in reading, I hated being separated because as we got older, students started to realize that we were in a lower reading group. Also, as I was in 5th grade, I was really struggling, and I ended up being put in a group with other students who just are not good with test taking but are really good readers or students who rushed through the test and scored low. Throughout chapter one, it also talks about behavior and that students in the lower classes had more behavior issues, and they were unsure why.  I think that the students in a lower class felt that they were not smart enough or that the work was too difficult, which was why they were acting out. Chapter two was from a different teacher's perspective and was the same situation, but the students were separated by their IQ, which to me is wild, and I have never heard of a school district doing this before.  I would totally recommend this read and think that you would really enjoy it. 

Audrey Pirri