Post by Tails_155 (DJ T-Rey) on Oct 26, 2006 22:21:53 GMT -5
For my English class we needed to write a persuasive essay, after the verdict comes back from my English teacher imma send it to my local representatives, senators, and governor, so please as i repeat at the bottom, all corrections encouraged 
. It is a sullen world we live in where the division of the tax dollar that goes to education is only a miniscule four percent. Is education only four percent of our lives? Is knowledge really only worth four percent of our time? The average American gets taxed about $5,900, four percent of that is $236, in Lawrence, one can’t even register for school at that price! Is education really so unimportant that a student family pays almost the same price between two parents as registration at a school? Education should be worth more than that!
. Some might say that the other divisions are highly important, and taking away from them is just as much a problem. If that’s the case, simply raise taxes a bit to help cope, I, personally, wouldn’t mind spending a bit more on taxes (sales taxes are the only ones I worry about at my age) if I knew it was going to education. Not only does lack of funding limit resources for teachers, it limits motivation for them to teach, it limits choices students have to learn about, and it limits diversity among students. Imagine an entirely uniform society, everyone thinking alike, acting alike and speaking alike, none smarter than another, none different from another, not only does it sound boring, it sounds borderline communist, without more electives, only accessible by educational funding, the whole world may eventually (in the most extreme case) fall to such. I am not saying such a thing will happen, I am simply saying limiting availability of electives limits diversity, and diversity is one of the greatest things about America, our freedom of diversity is wonderful. I, personally, have noticed a couple gaps in the choices I would’ve wanted to take, Japanese and more computer classes being highest among them, and I’m sure others have wanted to take classes that are unfortunately unavailable.
. Some might say that the standardized tests will show exactly which schools deserve to get better funding, but the way the testing works seems rather illogical to me: cut back pay to schools that have low scores? That’s like cutting back money from NASA every time a piece breaks, how can deducting pay help ability? It limits resources! I see the tests’ results paying schools as a form of mendacity it seems to untruthfully leave children behind buy cutting back pay. The tests themselves are unusual, and so frequent are the tests that more time is spent learning exactly what’s on the test that students don’t get to learn what’s supposed to be in their curriculum. Testing is a fair thing, don’t get me wrong, but it is overdone, and in at least some ways illogical. A couple years ago my school’s funds were cut back because one of the schools demographic was scored on only five people, if any one of them skipped the day of the test, or didn’t take it seriously, (another reason the testing is ridiculous) the said demographic’s score was cut back by 20%! These tests’ formats should be revised, if not scrapped in most cases.
. Educational funding is obviously important, so why isn’t it seen as more than four percent of our taxes? Obviously all the things taxes are spent on are important, or the government wouldn’t spend money on them, however, learning what one should spend money on can’t be achieved by the future leaders without the right tools. If we don’t take the time to teach our youth now, they won’t be able to lead the country in the future. This is my call, educational funding should have a higher priority in government spending.
Any corrections would be grand
Lack of Educational Funds
. It is a sullen world we live in where the division of the tax dollar that goes to education is only a miniscule four percent. Is education only four percent of our lives? Is knowledge really only worth four percent of our time? The average American gets taxed about $5,900, four percent of that is $236, in Lawrence, one can’t even register for school at that price! Is education really so unimportant that a student family pays almost the same price between two parents as registration at a school? Education should be worth more than that!
. Some might say that the other divisions are highly important, and taking away from them is just as much a problem. If that’s the case, simply raise taxes a bit to help cope, I, personally, wouldn’t mind spending a bit more on taxes (sales taxes are the only ones I worry about at my age) if I knew it was going to education. Not only does lack of funding limit resources for teachers, it limits motivation for them to teach, it limits choices students have to learn about, and it limits diversity among students. Imagine an entirely uniform society, everyone thinking alike, acting alike and speaking alike, none smarter than another, none different from another, not only does it sound boring, it sounds borderline communist, without more electives, only accessible by educational funding, the whole world may eventually (in the most extreme case) fall to such. I am not saying such a thing will happen, I am simply saying limiting availability of electives limits diversity, and diversity is one of the greatest things about America, our freedom of diversity is wonderful. I, personally, have noticed a couple gaps in the choices I would’ve wanted to take, Japanese and more computer classes being highest among them, and I’m sure others have wanted to take classes that are unfortunately unavailable.
. Some might say that the standardized tests will show exactly which schools deserve to get better funding, but the way the testing works seems rather illogical to me: cut back pay to schools that have low scores? That’s like cutting back money from NASA every time a piece breaks, how can deducting pay help ability? It limits resources! I see the tests’ results paying schools as a form of mendacity it seems to untruthfully leave children behind buy cutting back pay. The tests themselves are unusual, and so frequent are the tests that more time is spent learning exactly what’s on the test that students don’t get to learn what’s supposed to be in their curriculum. Testing is a fair thing, don’t get me wrong, but it is overdone, and in at least some ways illogical. A couple years ago my school’s funds were cut back because one of the schools demographic was scored on only five people, if any one of them skipped the day of the test, or didn’t take it seriously, (another reason the testing is ridiculous) the said demographic’s score was cut back by 20%! These tests’ formats should be revised, if not scrapped in most cases.
. Educational funding is obviously important, so why isn’t it seen as more than four percent of our taxes? Obviously all the things taxes are spent on are important, or the government wouldn’t spend money on them, however, learning what one should spend money on can’t be achieved by the future leaders without the right tools. If we don’t take the time to teach our youth now, they won’t be able to lead the country in the future. This is my call, educational funding should have a higher priority in government spending.
Any corrections would be grand
