February 13th, 2012
Alex Current Event #1 Author: Temar Lewin
Education
Money Urged for Colleges to Perform Job
Training
The New York Times, February 13th, 2012
1 Page
This Monday, President Obama Decided to propose a
bill that would send eight billion dollars to community colleges for the
specific purpose of career training. The bill would hopefully help our
suffering economy by adding more skills to the workforce, and in turn creating
more jobs and a better workforce/economy. This is a very important bill as community
colleges have been what most low-income families have been turning to in our
current economic downswing. Having good education that leads to high paying
jobs could help the current jobs problems that America faces. All this is
obvious to almost everyone, but there is a problem. This is that the 8 billion
is also needed elsewhere in America where we now don’t have enough money to pay
for our needs, even if they are supremely important. However, education is
where our power should come from. Good education can help solve almost all of
our current problems and should be worked on a lot more by our government. It
shouldn’t be just limited to community colleges either, serious changes need to
be made to our school systems that are currently doing horrifically. It may not
seem so serious at Gunn, but outside our bubble schools are not doing well at
all.
I agree with this post about how the 8 billion dollars should also go to high schools. If our youth doesn't go to a good high school where they are motivated by teachers to do better, then they won't try to get a scholarship to college. If they go to a high school like Gunn where kids are motivated at home and at school, more of them will try to get into a good college on a scholarship. Around the bay area, many budget cuts had to be made. Many schools have "ski week" and that was only added because of budget cuts. The reason palo alto schools do not have ski week is because Palo Alto is a wealthy area where schools do not need to cut down on money. It is a very good idea to send 8 billion dollars to community colleges but I think half of that should go to high schools for the exact reasons I listed above.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this post about how the 8 billion dollars should also go to high schools. If our youth doesn't go to a good high school where they are motivated by teachers to do better, then they won't try to get a scholarship to college. If they go to a high school like Gunn where kids are motivated at home and at school, more of them will try to get into a good college on a scholarship. Around the bay area, many budget cuts had to be made. Many schools have "ski week" and that was only added because of budget cuts. The reason palo alto schools do not have ski week is because Palo Alto is a wealthy area where schools do not need to cut down on money. It is a very good idea to send 8 billion dollars to community colleges but I think half of that should go to high schools for the exact reasons I listed above.
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