Argumentation and persuasion by Cecilia Simon

Education Quality in Public Schools.

The United States of America is the third most populous country in the world. Has the largest economy. Also has the second largest higher education system. Local school districts are responsible for carrying out the state education policy at a local level. However, the distribution of the quality of educations has been considering unequal. This issue has affect thousands of children’s. They have base the distribution of the education quality in the amount of population that a county has. This has affect many school’s districts, that we consider them as poor schools. This needs to be change and fix to be able to keep improving the education in United States. The board of education needs to focus more in the way they distribute the money for schools. Students are the future of tomorrow. They deserved to have a better education.

 Education is the process of facilitating learning, is the development of skills and the facilitate of a better knowledge, etc. Education in general is important. Should not be the distribution of equality education too? While students in higher- income towns have an easy access to guidance counselors, school psychologist, the aces to personal laptops, they have better buildings of education, also they have an essay aces to better options of different classes including advanced classes, they have the opportunity of  choose different sports and last one, they have a better menu of food. Students in lower- income towns have a situation totally different. Towns with lower income are base in the lower population they have. This has affect the schools by lowering the aces of different options for the student’s education. Most of the time they put middle schools and high school together. They do not get to have the option to bring different sports or advances classes that will help them on the future. This has been affecting the development of students. In the article called " 10 challenges facing public education today" says, " It’s been more than 10 years since the Great Recession, but many states are providing far less money to their schools today than they did before the crash. Our schools are crumbling and educators are leaving the profession in droves, unable to pay off student debt or make ends meet on stagnant salaries". This is an example and explains the reason why many school received way better money than other school. This shows how many schools get affected.

In my personal experiment I have seen the differences. I moved to United States in my last year of Middle school. I lived in Lowndes county. I enrolled Pine Grove Middle School. This school is located it in a higher - income town. We always had aces to personal computers, when it came to classes we had the opportunity to take advances classes of high school level, with the purpose of helping us for the next year that we were moving to High School. In the elective classes we had a lot to choose from music, art, PE and others. They have different sport with all equipment they need, in general they gave us a lot to choose from. Before I stared my first year of High school we moved to Lakeland county, this is a town with a really lower income. When it came to ride the bus, I found out that I had to ride it with kids from Middle School and kids from Elementary School, all of us in just one bus. Later on I saw that the middle school building it was also the high school building.  The building was not in good conditions; the paint was old that made it look sad inside. When it came to choose my elective classes they only had cooking classes, music, PE and Spanish classes. Our lunch time was divided in two times. One it was for all nine and ten graders, the other one was for then eleven and twelve graders. Base on the lower income they had us basically eating the same thing every day. In sports are they offer was only Soccer, Basque-ball and Track.  After my first year of high school my family moved back to Lowndes county. I moved from schools I went to Lowndes High School. It was a big changed for me. Lowndes High is a big school with a lot of students. I had to ride two different buses, one was to get to the middle school from there we took another one to go to the High school. I had again the opportunity of choose my schedule but this time my elective classes options was to many. From music, business, health care, art and others. They offer a lot sports and the better thing is that they offer college classes in the school, or they gave us the opportunity to go to the Community Wiregrass college, GMS or VSU. By my half senior year I was done with high school. I took some college classes. Also, I finished my Spanish pathway by the time I graduated from High School. I graduated with some college credits and I graduated certificated bilingual.

Education can be stressful for teachers and students. Many time are for teachers when it comes to help, some of them even if they want to they don’t have the capacity of do more for their students because they don't have the enough sources to do it . In the article 10 challenges of education says,  “ According to a 2018 study by the University of Missouri, 93 percent of elementary school teachers report they are “highly stressed.” Stressful schools aren’t healthy for anyone. There’s nothing wrong with a little pressure, a little nervousness over an exam, or a teacher who wants students to succeed. We all feel pressure, but something else is going on".  This issue is an example of how this has affect the mental health of Teaches. The people who we need to keep teaching those kids who are future of tomorrow. Also the same article says, "All this has occurred because public school's  funding has been cut to the quick all over the country after excessive and reckless tax cuts". They reason why many schools has been affect is because they cutting off the sources where they obtain the money for education, if this continues, the issue is going to keep growing.

  In conclusion, is important to  keep improving  the distribution of the same quality of education in all public schools. There is an urgent need to fix this and stop affecting thousands of students and teachers in towns with a lower income. They need to fix it and  keep providing a better opportunity's to students. By giving teachers the enough resources to help students. This would defiantly  help students to keep improving in their education and would  help them to think and  keep going with their education after High School. This will also help America to keep improving in the future. Kids are the future of tomorrow. All students deserve a better education.

http://neatoday.org/2018/08/03/10-challenges-facing-public-education-today/