First let me give some background to my experience in school. I'm a junior at a high school of about 4,000 students. I live in southern California about an hour north of Los Angles. The school is entirely too small to have 4,000 students. Most classes have 32-38 students.
Why is it that the government doesn’t have enough funds for education? My school was built to accommodate closer to 2,000. It is currently twice that amount. Approximately half of the classrooms were added after the initial building. These additional rooms are (how do I say this?) portable, as in they should not be permanent.
My mother is a 7th grade teacher. Her school currently consists entirely of these “portable” buildings. They move to their final site and permanent school in December. The actually building will only have offices, the cafeteria, and four classrooms. Four! That is an outrage, the rest of the classrooms have to remain “portables.” How is that any better than what they had before?
Where is the emphasis on education? When did learning die? Where is the outrage? Why do students and teachers accept this?
Students at my school don’t care. They want to get out of high school as soon and as easily as they can. What happens to the few of us who actually care, the few who want to go to college?
I suppose I am somewhat lucky that my school does offer AP classes. It makes me so sad to see other students graduate with no sciences other than biology and geo-science or to only have taken Algebra 1, Geometry, and then Algebra 2.
Where is the drive to succeed, where is the passion? From my experience it is dead. When the students who care measure to be less than 10% of all the students, how can we succeed?
When did education die and where were those who cared?
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Are levies passing? Nope...It's actually your parents jobs to make sure that your school has the funds. If your community is so worried, do some fundraisers and stop blaming everything on the government. Take some responsibility, it will build your pride.
Um, it takes a lot more to fund a school than a fundraiser selling cookies. Another thing is that public schools are just that--public, which means that our taxes are supposed to pay for it. If it wasn't for so much red tape in our state and federal goverments we wouldn't have this problem. Portable buildings are supposed to be a school. Also, what happened to President Bush's No Child Left Behind? It's supposed to grant more money to kids that pass higher on standardized tests. So yes, it is a federal problem.
There are never enough funds it seems. Which sucks for students and teachers and well the whole population becasue people arent educated then they go an vote or try to hold a job it's hard to advance socially if the population isnt educated....
I agree I wish the government would spend more time and money on the public school system.
Where there is a will, there is a way. It is the communities fault if you want to place the blame on someone. And that includes teachers, parents, churches, stores, wal-mart, restaurants, students, superintendents, law enforcement, etc. If we want our students to succeed we gotta step it up. Money is everywhere: get your school sponsored and the right fundraiser can get you enough publicity. Have a community meeting and get others opinions. It is not as hard as you thing. It is alway difficult to be the first to speak up and take action (even if that means just bringing thwe issue to someone else's attention).