Greetings ladies and gentlemen. D. Politopolous reporting once again. This is a wrap up of my discussion for now regarding education funding and prison funding. Specifically, I'll be answering Jinx's third and final question on the topic. So let us review the final query:
"Should budget cut protesters be focusing more on the underlying cause of these cuts such as the prison system you mentioned?" My response to this is a definite yes.
As the statistics show, many of these impoverished neighborhoods are deprived of many essential provisions needed to maintain a presentable community. A good bit of the youth today take no interest in receiving an education whatsoever, and many of these individuals join the same massive population of inmates. Now many of these youth may simply have no interest in schooling, however this can not simply be blamed on the student. The quality of the education is also a factor, as the statistics proved quite frankly in Act III.
Is it simply a coincidence that many of the lowest performing schools are in range of, if not within poor neighborhoods? Is it mere coincidence that the majority of these neighborhoods house African-American citizens, let alone 70 percent of the prison population consisting of African-American citizens? This is in no means restricted to the black population to be clear, and I would much rather let the readers think on this question:
"Why is it that the world finds it much easier to build tanks, prisons, and missiles, but we cannot build a simple school, a strong work force to educate our future generations?"
The answer is simple: An education is dangerous in the eyes of big business. Corporations make no money off of an educated populous, in addition to finding it easier to keep the masses conformed and rested under their shoe with a lack of knowledge. With that fact, it seems nothing like a coincidence that many corporate CEO's and officials are also politicians, as the policies, laws, and regulations are influenced by whom?
In the near future, I shall go deeper in depth into one aspect of this issue, and that is what the exact reason are that sees the youth take less interest in educating themselves. I aim to touch on various other subjects related to all of this well. Until then, this is D. Politopolous on recess.
Hi Darnell. To be fair, we do spend several hundred billion dollars on education and building schools. There is an issue with how that money is distributed with wealthier districts receiving more money. We would also disagree on how to address poverty with I desiring less government to address poverty issues and you creating more government programs to assist the poor.
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Furthermore, I have to disagree that "corporations" dislike education when they need an educated workforce to benefit their companies. What is problematic is the privatization of schools that has shown to be rarely effective.
"Why is it that the world finds it much easier to build tanks, prisons, and missiles, but we cannot build a simple school, a strong work force to educate our future generations?"
ReplyDeleteThe answer is one word: Fear.
With education, people learn. Big businesses fear this, because if the general population becomes educated, the general population will become a threat to big businesses. The big businesses can remain in control as long as the general population has mostly no idea what they are doing. They can easily control the citizens, and this is how the big businesses make money, which is their main goal. So, these higher-up people are spending money on less important areas in either to keep money away from the field of education.