Thread: Education: Bad Place To Cut Budgets

I don't really think class size matters that much, as long as you can understand the teacher you will learn what you were suppose to learn. When I was in high school they just mixed us all together anyways it didn't matter if you were a freshman or a senior. I think they made good choices on where to cut back.

There are stupid people and smart people, smart people want to learn, stupid people don't care to learn. The cut backs arn't going to effect that fact.

and what about the people in between, Zev?

our public school system is one of the last things we want to cut funding to, I gotta agree with beast. Because while you are right, there are smart people and dumb people, there are also unsure people, or people that just take awhile to get it.

I do not consider myself a 'smart' person. I have all the signs and behaviors of a 'smart' person, but I don't consider myself all that bright. (then again, education has a way of making you realize just how little you know..) My point is, there are a ton of people like me that are of average intelligence, I go to college, I work hard at it, and as a result I am successful. I can hardly accredit my success to any real smarts, other than I am smart to realize that I'm not that smart so I'm going to have to really work at it.

Schools should be a place not only to educate those truly interested, but also making sure the 'dumb' and average people aren't undereducated. When you live in political system like the US which requires an intelligent, well-informed citizen in order to be successful, when the government does something like cut funding to schools they are only serving to make our system less stable and in turn, have even more problems.

Now having said that, I can't pretend to know what areas of schools budgets are being cut, nor can I say I'm so passionate about the topic that I'm going to research it. But based off what I have heard, our public school system in the US isn't all that great compared to other country's of our power, so if the US wants to stay up top, it has to continue educating its citizens.

ya know, it's really sad that education is supposed to be free and it's meant for everyone to have. education doesn't deserve this...really it doesn't.

Originally Posted by rematche

ya know, it's really sad that education is supposed to be free and it's meant for everyone to have. education doesn't deserve this...really it doesn't.

Thank you. As for what Zev said, yes high school do that most of the time but - am talking about it on the elementary level. Yeah as you said the smart kids will be just fine but as Dark pointed out, most are in between. What are you going to do, ignore the majority?

Originally Posted by beast

Thank you. As for what Zev said, yes high school do that most of the time but - am talking about it on the elementary level. Yeah as you said the smart kids will be just fine but as Dark pointed out, most are in between. What are you going to do, ignore the majority?

it goes to all level. and this issue should not even be ignored especially for the elementary, which i believe is much more important than high school and college. why? because the elementary level is the basic amongst all levels and it shouldn't be compromised also.

Another issue which I should have included is that extra-curricular activities are also being cut as well. This is sad because from what I know of school districts as a student and a tax payer is that once something gets cut it tends to stay cut.

Originally Posted by Dark.

and what about the people in between, Zev?

our public school system is one of the last things we want to cut funding to, I gotta agree with beast. Because while you are right, there are smart people and dumb people, there are also unsure people, or people that just take awhile to get it.

I do not consider myself a 'smart' person. I have all the signs and behaviors of a 'smart' person, but I don't consider myself all that bright. (then again, education has a way of making you realize just how little you know..) My point is, there are a ton of people like me that are of average intelligence, I go to college, I work hard at it, and as a result I am successful. I can hardly accredit my success to any real smarts, other than I am smart to realize that I'm not that smart so I'm going to have to really work at it.

Schools should be a place not only to educate those truly interested, but also making sure the 'dumb' and average people aren't undereducated. When you live in political system like the US which requires an intelligent, well-informed citizen in order to be successful, when the government does something like cut funding to schools they are only serving to make our system less stable and in turn, have even more problems.

Now having said that, I can't pretend to know what areas of schools budgets are being cut, nor can I say I'm so passionate about the topic that I'm going to research it. But based off what I have heard, our public school system in the US isn't all that great compared to other country's of our power, so if the US wants to stay up top, it has to continue educating its citizens.

All am trying to point out, is if you don't have the will to learn, then you will probably be stupid. Thats not something the government can change. You can't make someone want to learn. You have the naturally brilliant students, then you have the students that work at being smart, then you got the ones that don't care. Most people do have to work a little harder to understand things, and they learn stuff because they try.

They had a special ed class in my high school of about 5 students, and guess what. None of them cared about their education, I think half of them dropped out before they graduated. Its not because they were too stupid to learn, they just didn't want to.

I don't think its a big deal. If parents don't like the public education then they can home school, or get a tutor.