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Mon Dec 04, 2017 11:39 pm
I am currently writing a paper about how schools are funded and how the U.S. is falling flat on its face in this regard. The a country that owns almost half of the world's available funds, the desparity between rich and poor is staggering. I find myself at utter shock that we have schools literally falling apart at its seams, kids going to bed hungry, and people on the brink of homelessness and bunking up with other family members. Sometimes eight in a one bedroom apartment just to have a roof over their heads. While others have summer and winter homes, own multiple cars, and spending close to $50,000 a semester on a single child's K-12 education. Often after attaining these things because they are given federal and state tax breaks. I have to ask, how do you view, feel, or see the world knowing that you have to make a certain amount a year to be given free rides when it's the people who are down that should be receiving equity, not just equality, in order to make it in the world that keeps stacking the odds against them?
To me, it's preplexing. I forget what artist said it in a song that "you strive to make money for clothes, and then when you make it rich, they send you free s***." I understand and believe in survival of the fittest to an extent, but I think we've reached a point that we are just kicking people while they're down. Basic human intervention is what separates us from animals and should take place and help those when you can. It seems to me that the whole capitalist movement has reached an extreme and has forgotten their human aspects. This all ties into how we fund schools and force schools to test in order to receive funding. Its a system thats out of date and failing and it just seems like we keep doubling over on this plan. Property tax shouldn't be what determines a school's budget. People in the poor communities suffer in this system, while the richer communities coast to success.
Testing itself shouldn't be the only aspect to determine how much a school receives either. Testing forces teachers to just spoonfeed information into their pupils and that in turn destroys student's intellect because then they are just reciting their books and not understanding the material. They aren't being challenged and then when they go into the real world and don't fall into a factory labor job, which is becoming less and less a thing in the U.S., they fall apart. The U.S. is on the brink of a powerhouse, but with the way the government is leading the country, and in turn the way the country is leading itself, it's going to implode on itself. The golden age of the factory worker mindset is dying if it's not already dead. It is education and being a technological powerhouse that will continue to make the U.S. stay on top of the world.
Trade schools are not less important than college education. I often feel like this field is also in need of developing by not giving enough apprenticeships and offering more education when their line of is beginning to die. An obvious source to this would be the coal workers. We will continually need mechanics, construction workers, metal workers, wood workers, and hands on technicians. They are a force that this country will never be able to go without and they are still great jobs that make a good amount of money when you can find it. But that is when you can find it. These jobs are being taken over by machines and laborers are cheaper overseas. Evidence in that is the jobs Carrier moved to Mexico ealier this year and a brick laying machine that's in it's final stages of development that can lay 10 times as much bricks than a human could. That is means less jobs for U.S. Citizens. And it seems to me that people are still sleeping on the silent fact that education is needed to further our country.
The recent testing that put the U.S. around the average worldwide in maths, science, and reading isn't an end all, be all testing. It doesn't grade innovation and determinations to find a niche in order to achieve success is allowing the U.S. succeed. That is actual intelligence. Something that can't actually be quantified and that is proof that test scores is just short changing large populations of our kids in funds that they deserve to have to have equal footing. Leaving such a huge gap between rich and poor and essentially missing a middle class sends the poor into a loop that offers no stage with which to step on to get out of poverty and makes tries to make the rich pay for it, but the rich have incredible power to prevent that. You'll eventually have a break point of two world's splitting, making a catastrophe because there is no bridge between the gap. So I wonder, why is it that we continually rely on testing for funding when it is a failed system?