How do you want your tax dollars spent? So many people become bitter when their hard earned money is used to provide food assistance or free medical care to people they believe should be working. There’s a key factor in large scale poverty. It is education. Without it, people are limited in their employment options. If their school is located in a bad area, it may not even have the teachers and supplies needed to address learning capabilities in the students. The public should demand more tax dollars go to education because education is the solution to poverty.
No matter how we try to say otherwise, it cannot be denied that people with schooling do better than people without it. Basic skills are deeply important to a student’s future success. That means that elementary education is key. Also special education programs, such as ESL, will help new immigrants catch up in school. By the time a child gets to high school, he won’t succeed if he cannot read, write or do basic math. It seems unfathomable that a high school kid would get that far without a good primary education, but it happens.
Teachers need more support in these low income schools. The area’s property taxes will not be enough to provide what is needed, so the government needs to re-asses its spending and move more income to public schools. The United States is falling behind the rest of the world in education. Our workforce is in danger of losing even more job to people overseas. American students have the same learning capability as others, so the government has to put education first.