Frank D. Spaziano is an Elementary School for students in grades 2-5. It is a brick building with many locked doors and a buzzer to get inside. The school is in a crowded area, with roads on 3 sides of the building. The other side has a pavement area that serves as the children’s playground. It is barely big enough for 4 cars to park side by side, yet multiple classrooms go out at a time for students to play. There are almost 600 students at this school and only 36 full time teachers. My high school had 800 students and that was the only high school in town. This number is outrageous to me for an elementary school with minimal grades to have. How can anyone expect the students to sit still and focus in a school that has so many kids? They wonder why most of the students need one on one help, because there are just too many trying to learn from one teacher that it is bound for someone to fall behind. This school also has a 20% rate of chronic absences. This means that many students fall behind in the curriculum because they are not in class to learn the lessons. Most of the absences are due to issues at home. For example, many of the parents of the students at the school have no job or are making minimum wage. Almost 94% of the students qualify for subsidized lunches. That is almost everyone that goes to the school that has a financial issue at home.
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