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            From the article I found, which is titled “List of California’s lowest-performingSchools Released” there is a lot of things they have in common with East St. Louis school. In this article it discusses about some of the schools in Alameda County and Contra Costa County, which have low performing rates. I was never aware that all three high schools in Hayward were apart of this list. The fact that I live right next to this city and never knew about this made me think about how unaware I was. I heard about Mt. Eden High School mostly that it was not a good school, but never thought why. What’s wrong with these schools?  

            It’s is similar to the book because there are people in St. Louis that do not know anything or try to ignore what is happening in East St. Louis. Another thing that this article has in common is the area the schools are in. When people think of Hayward or Oakland they do not think of it as a nice place to go just like how it is in East St. Louis. The children East St. Louis are affected mostly by the environment, community, and the lack of resources they have at their school. The schools are poorly funded and are on the list of tier. The five schools in Oakland was just recently opened and the fact that it’s not even it is an old school but it is already on top of the list of low achieving rates. As a solution they tried to replace the teachers and the principal but there was not that much of an improvement. I don’t think getting new teachers will help increase student test scores. It may not be the teachers because sometimes students lose their hope in trying like some of the children in East St. Louis. They are aware that they will be competing with others students who have came from a better school and higher education. 

Reference: http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_14634736