Attending college can be a daunting task. We may see the tuition bill and obstacles ahead of us and think, is it really worth the expense? It is a known fact that getting a college education comes at a high cost. But some pay an even higher price than others.
Major changes in education are affecting thousands of teachers and over nine million school students.
Budget cuts and new federal guidelines for teacher credentials have thousands of teachers and staff out of schools, and students are taking the biggest hit. Poor kids in small rural towns are left to pay the price.
Education reform has been in the throes of political campaigning for years now. As the Bush administration’s “No Child Left Behind” processes took a toll on our nation’s public school structure in the past 8 years, the new Obama administration plans seem to be channeling the same efforts. Competition based reform has become the new go-to style in the past decade but critics have argued that another 3 years of the same kind of education improvement won’t get us anywhere. In fact, it could end up damaging our schools even more.
The price of education has begun to play more to absurdities than certain rationale. As the economy lingers in uncertainty our nation-wide school system has apparently fallen to even lesser degrees than before. In a Huffington Post editorial piece, Bail out Our Schools by former Secretary of Labor and Professor at Berkley Robert Reich, explains that $4.35 billion in federal funds have now been designated for the nation’s public schools by the Obama administration. However, with such an economic downturn even such a generous amount will have us breaking even at best.
You would think that since the years of Martin Luther King Jr. racism would have been completely abolished. Yet, there are many instances of it still occurring today. Numerous parents, students, and teachers are reporting such instances at universities across the country.
A state budget cut is affecting more than 21,000 college students in California. The Los Angeles Times reports the one percent change in the school year, reversing the growth trend of the past five years.
America is the land of opportunity. What opportunities are we giving our citizens if they don’t get a college education? College education provides the best potential for future success. But it is expensive and those expenses affect the economy and American citizens. Is education worth the cost?