Middle School Movement (Middle School 244)

Felicia McCaw
Juvenile Delinquency
and Justice
Extra Credit Assignment
September 1, 2012
Week 9
Middle School Movement
(Middle School 244)

This program is designed to assist children in high-poverty schools by intervening and putting kids back on track. Because problems or issues are more prevalent in middle school sometimes familial needs cause a change in life and may reflect that they have to be day keepers for their siblings, allows the possibility of involvement in gangs, association with criminal elements, doing drugs and substance abuse. The teachers may become concerned about the student’s excessive absences and reasons why they might be missing school.
Due to extenuating circumstances beyond the control of students this may cause an affective state of bad behavior, low grades and poor study habits. The administrators have reallocated resources by hiring less school aids, changing and redistributing responsibilities amongst teachers to address this situation and have hired a counselor to be on an on-call basis to help any at-risk student with any problem and monitor interventions. Further by doing this extra support statistics are collected, reviewed by a team of counselors to evaluate students progress.
Middle School 244 can be a model as a project to help students who otherwise would not get an opportunity to succeed based on the location they live in, school attended and lack of support. But as reality surfaces it allows the acknowledgement that every at-risk student may not be helped or able to be reached. Because of this schools need to use innovative, creative endeavors to initialize learning, inspire interest and desire to expand and evolve.
Lastly, just having some or all students make it is the goal for Middle School 244 and because of this it allows great strides in progress and encouragement to help them carve a future for themselves.