EDUCATION IS KEY IN AMERICA

Education Is Key In America

Education Is Key In America

Introduction

The United States of America has been ranked 12 according to the United Nations 2008 human development catalogue report in committing towards education by public spending. According the U.S. Department of Education, the federal, state and local governments had spent a total of 786.8 billion dollars in 2006 on education and it is estimated that in the year 2008, about 837.7 billion dollars has been spent.(Graeber, 2004) In the school year of 2004-2005, the average expenditure per student was $8700. In an average class of 23, the annual cost to run a class room comes out to be $200,100. It is clear from the statistics that education is expensive in the U.S. Beside all these government spending, it is still the fact that the public education in the U.S. is worse than some of the evolving countries.(Abell, 2006) As Michael Moore says in his article Idiot Nation, that we make intellectuals that don't understand the distinction between a homeland and a countries or they don't understand the names of the heads of the key countries. Kazol in his article Still Separate, Still Unequal says that inward town schools in America have failed to make literate graduate. If this is so, we require solving these issues regarding the public education in this homeland and convey the inward town schools that are in smaller class neighborhoods to the grade of suburban schools that are managing well. The ways that America can arrive out of the issues of the public education and strengthening the future of its young children are by funding for the schools that are not managing good, educating the students about sex and health, and allowing the corporate funding for the betterment of the poor schools.(Krajcik , 2005)

 

Discussion

The schools in the inward town are the ones, which manage not have basic facilities like well paid teachers, books, classroom furnishings, electrical power, water and other student supplies due to the lack of funds. The teachers are not paid well which make them less motivated culminating in the output of students who have no interest in getting education. This is when the government decides that since the schools are not making good results, therefore they manage not deserve the cash and that is how they lose their funds.(Abell, 2006) The funding for the inward town schools should be increased and the cash should be taken from the schools that are already managing well and should be granted to the poor schools that manage not have basic facilities. The funds should be invested in increasing the salaries of the teachers, and supplying basic facilities in the schools as cited above.

However, the school board, teachers, and parents of the suburban schools who are managing well and making well educated individuals cannot stand to the fact that their cash should be taken and invested in the smaller class schools that are not managing well. On the other hand, it is a fact that a ...