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Some Of The Urban Education Issues Of The Current Times

By Michelle Robinson


There is a growing number of educational institutions in the cities and towns. The rise in their number is partly as a counter to the growing population in the areas. The growing number of children in the high population areas has increased the need for more institutions. However, it is this growth that has led to an increase in challenges that are being experienced in the areas and within the institutions in such highly populated places. Here are some of the main urban education issues experienced in educational institutions.

The institutions are usually overcrowded. Since cities and towns are far more populated than the rural or country regions, it has a greater number of children too. This has directly led to an uncontrollable increase in students in schools. Since the number of schools can never grow in the same ratio as the students, the resulting situation is growing cases of overpopulated institutions.

The institutions suffer the challenges of teachers' inadequacy. The poor systems put into place by the teachers governing bodies has failed to provide enough teachers for the growing population. The educationist has to deal with the continuous increase in student population against the stagnant teachers' population. This usually leads to poor performance among students; a problem caused by not getting enough attention from their teachers.

The institutions are underfunded. The government is not doing enough to provide the school with enough money needed to run them more effectively. The increase in student population automatically calls for an increase in funding so that the institutions can avail enough resources. However, this is not always the case.

The educators are overworked. Since the government fails to hire enough teachers as a countermeasure to cater for the growing number of students, the educators find themselves in a very tight situation. They have to work extra hard to be able to serve a large number of students. And since they are not paid for the extra work, they are often very demoralized.

Teachers are encountered with the task of teaching in multilingual classrooms. Teachers who have multilingual abilities may not suffer so much but their counterparts who only use English as their teaching language find it difficult to interact with the foreign students. The students also risk missing on so much. This is one of the problems that has been difficult to solve since it would require that teachers be taught more languages at the college level.

Towns and cities are associated with noise and air pollution. Since most of the schools in these places are located closer to the distraction, they may be disrupted. The industries and vehicles emit dangerous gases that may cause health problems to the students and staff at the institutions especially if they are located too close to each other.

Academic institutions have students from diverse cultures. Even those foreign students who have a good understanding of the English language may not be well acquainted with English or American cultures. This makes it difficult for them to interact with other people from cultures that are different from theirs.




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