Shattered Education

     My name is Rami Kaser, the anger element of the Lighters. You don't need to know anything about me and I don't need to know anything about you. Today, I will be discussing the broken standards of schools in the United States. Read, and if you agree, spread this awareness and let's hope it falls in the right hands.

To fuel the next generation's minds and encourage insightful and critical growth, some strategic funding must go into the educational system in the United States.

 

    After listening to the This American Life's "Three Mile" podcast, I was exposed to some personal stories from individuals who were impacted by the seriously falling standards at their school. This led me to pull up a quick chart (from an old blog of mine) showing the average spending per student in school districts (according to county). The funding per student across the United States is disturbingly imbalanced. How can we expect to heal broken communities like Chana Joffe-Walt's? She was robbed of an opportunity for a proper education because the funding in her public school is unacceptable; they have no cafeteria, their classes don't have acceptable materials (like books and chairs), and their teachers are paid on the lower spectrum of the teaching salary. With fundamental issues like these, how can we seriously blame the low-income status of these hurt communities? 

The first step in giving an equal opportunity for all young minds is to eliminate the system that bases their education on their parents' pockets. Children (and college students eventually) should not be educationally prosecuted because of the dictatorship money holds in the education system.

    So, what's the solution? Well, in my not-so-knowledgeable opinion, I would say to increase funding to all schools and have a bare minimum financial value per student and teacher (that far exceeds the one in place today). Where do we get the money? If 2.3 trillion dollars from tax-payers' money were scandalously whistle-blown and 125 billion dollars being bureaucratically wasted by the Army branch, I'm sure some simple reallocation of tax payers' money can at least begin fixing the broken standards of the education system. In a time where most war machines made are thrown away, it's shouldn't be too controversial to use some of that wasted money on general welfare. 

We need a new strategy for the United States; one that focuses primarily on the urgent challenges we face, most of which are not military-based in nature. Therefore, through a major and disciplined shift of monetary assets, we should be able to begin healing the failing education standards in this country.

In short, there should be immense funding going into schools and teachers should be financially better off for training the future minds of the Unites States. By restoring faith in school districts across the country, we can begin to heal the shattered failures of the current standing system.