The main thing I have a wonder about from this video is WHY the school with a lower budget allows and even forces teachers to teach subjects that they aren’t even certified to teach. What are the specific causes? Please don’t just simply reply “because they have a lower budget”, because that response will still leave me hanging.
I believe that Lonnie and James are quite different children. They are both of course very naturally intelligent kids, but Lonnie seems a whole lot more fed up and depressed about the location in which he lives, and about the low quality of the school he attends. This leads to Lonnie becoming extremely unmotivated to complete his assignments with a good work ethic, causing him to get lower grades than James does. James doesn’t seem to have a care in the world, and even when he does get a slightly low grade, he knows it doesn’t really matter because he’s attending a high quality school and that if he fails, the school will help pick him up. It’s a totally different story for Lonnie. If Lonnie doesn’t put 100% effort into his schoolwork, there will be an extremely low chance of him succeeding in the future academically.
The main obvious difference in between the two schools is the budget; James school receives more funding than Lonnie’s school does. The students at James’ school have better grades because of the better resources, and the students at Lonnie’s school have worse grades because their school receives less funding. The richer get richer and the poorer get poorer.
I'm assuming that the reason they allow non-qualified teachers to teach those subjects is because the school NEEDS teachers. There is too much need for teachers and not enough willing teachers. They are in no position to hand-pick who will end up in their schools. (the better teachers choose to go to the better schools, where they will not have to discipline as much)
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