School Pride

So I am currently watching the show School Pride, which is a show about these four adults that go to schools and renovate them so that the schools are in better shape for students to learn in. They are trying to create a better learning environment for the students. It is along the same lines of the show "Extreme Makeover Home Edition" but the difference is that the students, teachers, parents and anyone who is or was impacted by the school volunteer to help fix up their school. The four people who run the show take in some special projects, like fixing a football field, redoing a classroom and cleaning up the cafeteria, but they also provide the school with some new technologies or resources that the school may need. The schools that I have seen them flip upside down have been inner city schools that are literally falling apart. What this show is showing America is that there is a huge problem with so many schools across the country where students cannot focus on their learning and school work because they are too focused on whether the ceiling might cave in on them. This show also conveys to people that teachers are putting in so much time and even their own money to teach their students when the school obviously does not have the funding to give the teachers the resources they need. If the schools cannot even fix their leaky roofs or broken lights then how are they supposed to provide the teachers with the materials they need? The teachers are paying out of pocket to help the students succeed and this is occurring across the country and not just in inner city schools. This show has proved that if you improve the facilities and the learning environments of students that test scores and grades of students improve drastically. I encourage you to check out this show just to see what it is all about. One of the schools they renovated was in Detroit, so if you want to see how they are affecting your own state this would be an episode to check out.