Eduaction Problems

Education problems

Old torn textbooks dated back to the 1960s, over crowded classrooms, and a lack of adequate teachers; these are just some of the issues that affect present day American schools. The problem with our educational system is the lack of sufficient funding that the United States government gives to the Department of Education. This is the main reason for the ill education of American children. The United States government spent roughly 401.7 billion dollars on the Department of Defense this year, yet it only spent 57.3 billion dollars on education this year. It makes you wonder whether the government wants smarter students or smarter bombs.

Our generation has suffered from a lack of sufficient technology, outdated books, and under paid teachers who really deserve more. The future leaders of this country are receiving inferior educations compared to other countries and our political leaders are not really doing anything about it. The government would rather invest in making jails more luxurious for convicts who have committed terrible crimes, than give the future leaders of the United States a descent education.

Michael Moore the author of Idiot Nation identifies this same problem. He states how American schools are "falling apart". "In 1999 one-quarter of U.S. public schools reported that the condition of at least one of their buildings was inadequate" (pg.161), this means that some of the schools that children are attending are unsafe, and not because of the possible threat of a school shooting. They are unsafe because of the lack of money that the school system has. A parent is sending his or her child to a danger zone where at any moment a roof could collapse and kill their child all because of funds.

Moore also touches on politicians getting upset because the children in America are falling behind children in other countries like Germany and Russia, yet they refuse to spend more money on education. It seems to me that the politicians have no one to be mad at but themselves, they are they reason that American children are not on the same academic