school inequalities
Isaak Townsend
The article was about how neighborhoods that had lower income families in them tend not to have good educational systems. It noted that there are a lot more school drop outs in those areas when compared to higher income areas. It concludes that more tax dollars should be directed towards school in general.
My opinions on this are that even if you were to use more tax dollars to fund schools, you'd still have the same problem of lower income schools having lower test scores and drop out rates. This is because as the old saying goes ,"you get what you pay for." So, even with the added dollars to the schools, it won't be enough to compete with the schools that people pay thousands to go to. They just can't compete. This is not because the teachers that work in higher income schools are more often than not, better than the ones that work for less. The lower income areas also might not have a healthy out of school environment. Students might have an absent parent, having to support their siblings or in some cases, non working parents. My point is, that its not always just the school that can guide the kids stay in school and get a good meaningful role in society. There are countless other reasons that people drop out of school. While giving schools more money may solve the problems of people that stay in school, it isn't going to solve most of the problems of why people drop out. This is one of the main problems with our society today. We don't take time to look at the big picture. We think that its only one solution for one problem.Maybe students are too hungry to learn. Instead of putting tax dollars toward just school, the tax dollars could be put toward food programs in the school to feed the kids. Set up a place in the school where parents could go to apply for jobs in the school or other places.
sources: https://www.thoughtco.com/savage-inequalities-3026755
The article was about how neighborhoods that had lower income families in them tend not to have good educational systems. It noted that there are a lot more school drop outs in those areas when compared to higher income areas. It concludes that more tax dollars should be directed towards school in general.
My opinions on this are that even if you were to use more tax dollars to fund schools, you'd still have the same problem of lower income schools having lower test scores and drop out rates. This is because as the old saying goes ,"you get what you pay for." So, even with the added dollars to the schools, it won't be enough to compete with the schools that people pay thousands to go to. They just can't compete. This is not because the teachers that work in higher income schools are more often than not, better than the ones that work for less. The lower income areas also might not have a healthy out of school environment. Students might have an absent parent, having to support their siblings or in some cases, non working parents. My point is, that its not always just the school that can guide the kids stay in school and get a good meaningful role in society. There are countless other reasons that people drop out of school. While giving schools more money may solve the problems of people that stay in school, it isn't going to solve most of the problems of why people drop out. This is one of the main problems with our society today. We don't take time to look at the big picture. We think that its only one solution for one problem.Maybe students are too hungry to learn. Instead of putting tax dollars toward just school, the tax dollars could be put toward food programs in the school to feed the kids. Set up a place in the school where parents could go to apply for jobs in the school or other places.
sources: https://www.thoughtco.com/savage-inequalities-3026755
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