"Closing the gap" - SL

I would just like to respond to last week's class when we read the article about the doctor who felt he was "closing the gap" for social justice in education. I was shocked to read this article. It is a scary thing to think that students are using performance enhancing drugs so frequently whether it is for academic or physical use so often these days. I find this to be such a shame, it is actually working against what the doctor was trying to do. This creates an even larger gap for those students out there who struggle and actually need these drugs to focus and get their schoolwork done. This causes students who were doing well before to excel even more while students who were struggling are again trying to catch up. What I found even more alarming was that parents were the majority of those who were for these kinds of practices. It seems that with a lot of issues educators face today, the majority of them deal with beliefs and actions which start at home. This causes me to believe how important it is for more teacher and parent communication as well as more parent involvement in the classroom.