School Funding for Equal Opportunity

     The summary of the blog is as follows: the man wrote a letter to the governor to ensure the students upstate don't get a cut in their funding for schooling. He noted it was important to create an equal opportunity of schooling and he noted that it is not the people who should be at fault of where they live to take a cut in funding.

     He makes a very good point by giving an equal opportunity of schooling. This is the dream that many people have come up with--equal opportunity in schools. Regardless of SES or where you live, Horace Mann felt it was a necessity to give equal schooling. Without that, you won't do the USA much justice. After all, it is the people who are in school now who will eventually take over as leaders of this country. Do people really want future leaders to have a limited education? I wouldn't assume they would want future leaders to have limited education opportunities but rather the opposite. It is essential that students with lower SES be given more of an opportunity because they are the ones who lack that experience and mindset that people with the higher SES already obtain. I believe the students with a high SES already have that knowledge base of the school system so it would be feasible to taper off some of their funding and donate that to schools with students of lower SES;  it would be essential to those schools with low SES because that would aide the teachers in giving a better education to the students. The students need all of the opportunities they can because they lack nearly everything that wealthier people have. The wealthy have all of the better opportunities whereas the poor have worse opportunities. Students shouldn't be held accountable for their parents' lack of education and wealth because they are the ones who are given a second shot for the parents who have a limited amount of wealth. The wealthy children are just going to become more wealthy all because of what their parents have achieved; this gives little opportunity to the poor. I keep talking about the wealthy and poor because I can't stress enough how difficult it is for a poor student to maintain that support system along with keeping a good GPA and maintaining good test scores. Poor students need more of an opportunity to succeed and that is where funding is crucial. If people give more funding to the schools with less money, those who do won't be sorry they did because they will see an increase in progress until the students start achieving more than they have before.









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