Higher Education Budget

The land of America. The United States of America brags about being a land of opportunity, equal opportunity that is. But what if I were to tell you this isn’t entirely true? As self-proclaimed the best country in the world, it lacks in one thing that even a second world country leads in, and that is a Class – A education. In fact, America is rated 17th out of all countries in education, a mere “average” in a world perspective (Huffington Post). Certainly nothing the best country in the world should have to be worrying about. Throughout the United States, so many regions are doing poorly in terms of keeping up with the education standard. And in some of the areas that need the most attention, they are even thinking of closing schools. It is ordinary that with a higher level of education comes a higher paying job. However, those teachers don’t even want to think about taking up a job in the dirtiest, most under educated and dangerous regions of this country where they are needed the most. What they need is an incentive, for higher educated teachers to take up teaching in those impoverished areas. So instead of making cuts to their funds, pay should be increased to encourage those teachers.
People that are living in the places of poverty deserve to have the same quality education as people living in richer areas of America. Many programs and quality teachers are lacking in the school districts of Chicago. And now according to Kim Bellware, school districts in Chicago are planning on closing as many as fifty-four schools because of budget cuts. How do you expect that all children of America to have equal opportunity when some don’t even have a school near them to go to? It’s like the final straw for some kids that barely even go to school when it’s close to them, now there’s no way they’re going to even attempt going now that it’s further away. Not only that but, teachers there are making much less than the top paying districts. As posted by Zaid Jilani, Chicago