Class and poor education

Time: 11:27 AM

Place: Kitchen


Well, class this morning was rather weird. I think my teacher is a little upset. Whether it be something about the class or about other personal things, she just seemed irritated. We have to write a two hundred fifty word essay about cause and effect. She wanted to know: "what caused you to do one thing and not another?" I guess, it was more towards the people that didn't do the assignments that she asked for, and wanted a cause and effect for it. So I don't know what my cause and effect will be for class. I guess, it will be just the obvious, I did this therefore this happened from it.

I have to write an essay about the education system from someones article. It's about how we are segregating our own kids. That we are putting certain kids into more all black schools and that they have lower test grade scores. That kids can't move into other schools because their test scores aren't good enough. That predominately white schools have better test grades than the ones that have majority black and Hispanic. One example was that they opened a school named after Martin Luther King Jr, in a dominantly white neighborhood. Even though that school was opened, many of the neighboring parents sent their kids to other better known schools that have better test grade scores. Thus, inevitably, the school then had majority black and Hispanic students. Thus the school received less money from the city for repairs because of low test grades on state exams. Teachers are paid less, thus, they're less likely to take the time to really teach or teach efficiently. It's really crazy. This is happening in a lot of inner city schools. That the teachers aren't receiving as much money and neither is the school. This is leading to less money for funding the equipment, new books, safer playgrounds, and art programs. It's really quite a problem. These kids aren't receiving a good education thus leading to more poverty and lower paying jobs because of poor education. It's all because of the slashing of school funding. I don't get why people don't realize, these are the people that will be ruling our country one day; why don't we give them a better education. Education is precious and it should never be squandered.