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No Innovation with No Education
Although free education is not to be taken for granted, I see many changes that my
school needs. I am usually not the one to complain, but my school needs more teachers.
Every year since I have been at my school the teacher's population has been shrinking
immensely. And less teachers means more overcrowded classes. Overcrowded classes
don't just come from less teachers but other schools that are shutting down and those
students come to my school. These schools that shut down are schools that are failing,
but this all arises from the lack of resources. My school also needs more resources such
as computers, printers with ink that are available to the students and more.
Every year there have been less teachers at my school. I have a French class with
no teacher. This is not the first time that this has occurred, this has also happened in the
9th grade and now I'm in the 11th grade preparing to take a french test at the end of the
school year with no knowledge of the language. Last year, when school started there were
not enough desk to accommodate my French class. Students sat on top of cabinets, some
were standing around the room. How can one learn in this type of environment? No
teachers means piling up all the students into one crowded classroom questioning when
a teacher will come.
My school has a problem with the lack of resources for the students. In the 9th
grade, we had a writing center where we could go to do research and print out
information and we had a school library. But last year the writing center was closed
leaving us students with no place to do our school work when we turned to the writing
center because all else failed. When my ink ran out at home I thought I could print it
out at school, but there was no place in school that I could print it out, so I had to
give the assignment in late, which earned me a lower grade. The books in our
school library are also outdated materials. They haven't been updated since the
school first opened. My school has a lack of resources and lack of teachers with
many students.
The solution to all of this is less budget cuts from the government from school
funds and getting the country out of war and debt. The government needs to stop
spending more money on the war than on education. Children are the future of this
country, children will be the next foundation. Other countries like China will soon be
world powers not because of their involvement in war, but because of the innovation
and growth taking place in that country. There can be no innovation with no education.
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