Roughly 25% of students drop out of school at an early age, due to financial struggles. Many students acquire a job while going to school to either support themselves or their family. Unfortunately, many parents get laid off or fired causing them not to be able to support their kid financially. Which ends up causing the student not to get the best education they can get. In “Waiting for Superman” Bianca, a kindergartener in Harlem. Her mother works multiple jobs to place her in a parochial school. Her mother says that she will do whatever she can to ensure that "Bianca goes to school since that implies that she will have a profession rather than a simple job". Money is a factor in why the education system is failing in our society …show more content…
This scene is extremely insightful and focuses on an ongoing controversy of teacher unions and how they are affecting urban students’ education.Since teachers have tenure they start lacking when it comes to giving minority students a proper education at school.Purposely because they wouldn’t get fired at all due to the fact that tenure protects teacher unions. This impacts students greatly because without a proper education/class they’ll be far behind. In their academics and start to lose hope and just give in causing them to drop out and become another statistic for America.But this all could end if schools removed tenure and monitor teachers once in a while and study test score coming out of every