Thank You experience of those transitioning into high school we then went into our respective schools engaged our students using poetry and film and promised them that they would be the first to hear the results of this survey 259 students responded to us and the spring of 2013 we went and told them the results we will now tell them to you school closure I remember when East High closed down it was announced in january two thousand tnm by senior year high school when we took our state test in march we cared in our mind the knowledge that our school was closing this was really personal asleep it felt like my parents were been evicted from a house that I threw up in the house and the neighborhood would never be the same each half of the only school that I spent more than one year attending ever since calculation abundant grace to it whoever tenant in early elementary school that close 43 stated defended from hard or very hard some students are transition and they lost others as an adjustment and others at the new beginning the policy of school closure has included in the score is 1-0 defeat in no child of the time and race to the top no Philippe Cleveland portfolio strategy is cancelled the number of high-performing school districts in close or replace seven schools student-teacher relationships sometimes I feel the curriculum is being ignored instead prep for a state test is the preview this coach stress with your classroom students need to pass the state test to graduate and teachers need us to keep their jobs seems like is disconnect between school of meaningful learning fifty-nine percent of our students that cigar survey says it teachers and students don't get along however there was also evidence that teachers encouraged critical thinking and Challenger students to work hard more than half of the students indicated that their teachers only focus on the state test but what we found interesting was that those students who said that they got along with their teachers were more likely to indicate that their teachers only focus on the state test this made us wonder our students beginning to equate good teaching with test prep students student relationships changing schools again name-calling putting down keeping out as I just started to break away now participating or talking seventy-six percent and ninth grade students reported getting along with other students in our school what fifty two percent also reported that there was verbal bullying most the time burglary times this dissented a challenge for us in our analysis in our discussions we came up with two hospitals one students are four friendt students in their own groups of friends tend to get along with each other and also those with common backgrounds but as soon as they believe that group of friends you become a bully or they get a second it could be problems within the school product always being strangers to each other and their teachers and there could also be the possibility of problems with the family transportation it's hard to get to school without a bus or car what are you really safe transportation my destination he walks close and I looked behind me what are you really safe if I don't get to my destination then how about I I walk to school with Marla's clothes on no shot get on the bus shut up hitting fair shut up but of my eyelashes and flip my hair what are we really safe whether it really safe at the time of the survey getting a bus ticket was a real challenge for students this meant that if they couldn't afford to take it that they wouldn't go to school or they would risk getting caught aapke affair the district has since responded with increasing access to transportation these are real issues that affect student attendance and school choice shutting down tuning out please one down wait a minute this isn't our history remember the treatment Congress for racial equality the United freedom movement behavior would kill cleaners Association remember April twentieth the boycott in nineteen fifty four against cleveland segregated schools ninety-two percent of us stayed home I went to freedom school why son of the next generation could enjoy freedom now are we going to let the slope for our students do you have a story we invite you step forward into one of the ears that in streets or do you have way of I needed student challenges policy we take it very personally so at this time if you have a storage you want to share with us about any of the topic we spoke about or other please come to the mat and share your testimony I have a story I scored your I story probably lies an intersection of teachers do relationships we are in our district we have a high amount of suspension rates due to issue the teacher-student relationships and a lot of the philotic so our school district position you