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root said:it's not the school that maters it's the individuals drive to better themselves...
While I am in agreement with most of that in which you are saying...There is a big difference in schools(locations) and what teacher assignments by the school districts and in ecconomical restrictions too. Basically those areas with the most money get the best teachers.
Almost any where you look within the US you will find that the more aflfuent... then the better the education! This is in itself unacceptable within a public school system, yet is prevailent throughout the states.
I for one am glad that the government has set guide lines as to requirements to admittance for colleges to have to accept the top 10% of ANY graduating class. This ensures that not only the middleclass but poor also has an equal opportunity to receive a higher education. This allows that an individual that has overcome an educational disadvantage of ecconomical geographics still has an opportunity to succeed.
Now, I agree that it is a matter of an individuals drive to better themselves. It is also dependant, more so, on the parental influence concerning that child and the childs education.
There are just too many parents that believe that it is the governments responsibillity to educate their children. This is just not true. And here is where it starts to fall apart.
The governments sole role is in the provision of an equal opportunity to receive an equal education. This includes the taking of taxes and supporting ecconomically depressed school districts so as to teachers salaries as well as for the text books and the building of new schools, along with the passing of legislation to control the admittance to higher educational facillities
Anything less would be in itself a step backwards to a seperarist state. And this CAN NOT beallowed to happen at anytime nor any where.
Every person should be given the opportunity to receive an equal education as the next person, regardless of their station in life. And every means possible should be utillized in performing that duty.
It is too easy for the rich to buy the way for their children to attend the best schools wheter the child deserves it or not. And it is too easy for the
school to say no to the enrollment of a student from an ecconomically depressed area even though they have met the criteria for enrollment. Schools do this because they are dependent upon donations from outside areas...this causes them to look at admittance not by credit but by whether or not they could get monies, either now or in the future from those they admit.