By: Anna Gomenyuk
I believe education is one of the many important things
everyone should be entitled to. It should not feel like a privilege, education
is something that should be easily attained and accessible to everyone. For
children, school is a place where they learn various subjects such as math and
history. But it’s more than that too. It’s where they make friends, socialize, participate
in different after school activities, and explore who they are. We should want
the best for our future generations and do as much as we can to give them the only best. Unfortunately, along with the many inequalities in our
society, education is one of them. Instead of trying to fix the school systems,
we seem to be doing worse.
Take for example
the School District of Philadelphia. Due to the $629 million budget gap, they are cutting programs and laying
off staff. They fired around 3,000 staff, making the classrooms bigger, which
is sometimes not the best way to learn. Programs such as art and music will be
cut as well, along with junior varsity sports teams. Even transportation will
be cut! No student should worry about how they will get to school and back
home. Special Ed programs and summer schools will also be impacted. This is a
nightmare! Students should have as many opportunities as possible but instead they
are taking these opportunities away from them.
What these
students will be going through is not fair to them. Like the girl in the video
said, they are taking their futures away from them. It’s shocking to me how
they can do this to students. Instead of upgrading the school system, they are
downgrading it, which is just increasing the inequality in education and
schools.
