Dave Eggers' Wish: One Upon A School

Eggers starts our by telling his story with some humor but one distracting habbit when he talks is he says um a lot which takes away some of the focus on what he is really saying. Dave Eggers big point and message throughout his talk was to spend more one on one time with disadvantaged students. He came up with a place where students could go after school and get help with English homework without bogging down class room teachers with so much unmanageable work.
This very much relates to my dad's school. My dad works in a very multi cultural and diverse school where 75% kids are on free and reduced lunch and many are from all over the world 10% of which are being taught English the language because they are students that come from countries that don't teach it. At his school there are 28 languages spoken from all over the world, but they also offer English lessons to parents so they can learn as well. Some under privileged students used to find help and support from teachers and staff in library until budget cuts and teacher unavailability became to great to support after school help. His school faced the same problems as the school talked about by Eggers yet he was the one who found a solution to the kid to staff ratio issue.
It was said on the video that with and extra 30-40hours a year of one on one attention a student could raise his or her grade by one level. If the students just had people sit down ith them ane listen to their creative thoughts on how to writ this of how to do that with help and support when needed. If this were implemented in schools across America or even Colorado, students would have a tremendous advantage. In my high school it is relatively easy to see a teacher during free periods, after school or before school, but not all schools have that support or flexible schedule.
The most important aspect that I took away was that this writing center that Eggers created didn't single anyone out. They didn't call it " The place to Get help if you can't learn well" , they left it open for any one to come in and learn in a great learning environment that had great role models. These role models showed kids that it was fun to learn in a non school related environment. This center was set up so that kids motivated them self to do well and so they did well because they were having fun while doing it. The different themes throughout the two stores of pirates and superheros are placed to spark the imagination and creativity of the students to help them have fun with it instead of a forced school like environment. This ideas is very much worth spreading to give every child that extra boost in their studies that should be put into action across the nation.