Shugufa's Struggle For Education In America

In Underfunding for Public School by Marcial Macias, he specifically addresses how are schools going to provide the proper education to students if schools don’t have the proper funding? This question prompts a wide variety of answers and opinions due to the fact that everyone has their own opinion on this query. This question seems to interest the majority of people in the American society. Therefore, I can see many people such as parents reading Macias’s essay.

(1) Education, while not popular for slum residents, was a way to move up the social caste system. This is also seen in developed countries; educated residents are able to enter career paths with more opportunities, higher salaries, and greater prestige. Manju, the daughter of Asha, was attempting to complete her education at a local women’s college. If she completed this education, she could marry someone in a higher social caste and escape the slum. Her mother Asha often discouraged her because it violated the social role of women; women should be married off and serves as servants to their husbands. If Manju were able to complete her education, she would be Annawadi’s first female college graduate. Nevertheless, it is difficult for a person to receive an education when structural conditions do not allow. At one point in the story, Manju has to stop teaching the local children to assist her mother in ripping off a Western nonprofit- Asha was running a fake kindergarten program.

The United States is a country based on equal opportunity; every citizen is to be given the same chance as another to succeed. This includes the government providing the opportunity of equal education to all children. All children are provided schools to attend. However, the quality of one school compared to another is undoubtedly unfair. Former teacher John Kozol, when being transferred to a new school, said, "The shock from going from one of the poorest schools to one of the wealthiest cannot be overstated (Kozol 2)." The education gap between higher and lower-income schools is obvious: therefore, the United States is making the effort to provide an equal education with questionable results.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries in the world. Three decades of war has subjected Afghans to harsh living conditions. Leaving most with insufficient resources to survive. Many women are left widowed, and are obligated to provide for their families,

After watching “Waiting For Superman” (2010), my view on education changed seeing that: 1. My place in education is phenomenal in comparison to my counterparts in other states, 2. Teachers are also the cause of the system’s faults, and 3. Change is needed, but nothing works. The term “dropout factories” was coined in that documentary, where more than half of a high school’s population would drop out between sophomore and junior year. Seeing that students who were entering the 11th grade with a 4th grade reading comprehension shocked me and made me question why they did not receive any additional help. It turns out that the resources they needed were unavailable due to budget cuts and raised a few questions: If the United States are number one in education spending and our country faces budget cuts, where is that money going? Where are the resources to help struggling students? Why are the students being pressured to work under the corrupt system that clearly is not

The connection between poverty and education has been discusses for many years, and the government has poured billions of dollars into providing as well as improving education for both the upper, and the lower class. According to The Institute of Education Sciences, “In 2012, approximately 11.1 million school-aged children, or children ages 5 to 17 years old, were in families living in poverty.” With the amount of money flow coming into the Unites States, why are impoverished school aged children still not receiving education benefits and opportunities? This has not been an issue until the last century when the push for education became prevalent. Currently Shanghai, China is leading the marathon to education among other countries. The United

There have been steps to fix this clear inequality of education in the United States, such as the institution of affirmative action. Unfortunately, this has not been enough because, though it gives minority students to gain acceptance, it does not make up the fact that they learned in an under-resourced environment and may lack the appropriate knowledge and skills to be successful in a university setting. It would take $100-200 billion to fix the public school system, yet we see that these funds are often used for other things, such as the building of a new stadium in Cleveland (“Children in America’s Schools”). It has not been a priority for many politicians, as we have seen in Chicago. There has been many closures of schools

According to 10 Things, Public Education In America Is Getting Right “It Is Inclusive - School is available to all American “school-age” citizens. It’s not like that everywhere else in the world.” Our schools in America can be found anywhere else it available to every in America. This helps schools in growth and how much the government pays the to build up they schools. Also how many students depends on how much they get paid. According to the same article “Funding -This is America, and if there’s one thing Americans can do it's spending money. We fund education annually to the tune of a projected $821 billion in 2013. If it can be bought (it can’t), we’ll figure it out.” We can afford it, unlike other counties. If it helps we can get it one way or other. We have the power and money to do it.Money is not any issue for us but for many it is that's why we are different. According to the same article “It’s difficult to say what it’s like planet-wide so it very well not be a strength of American schools, but the relationships between teachers and students in many of the top classrooms in the United States is very strong, with teachers acting as mentors, guides, content experts, and compasses to navigate our increasingly crazy world.” The students are close with the teachers. Also, the school never fails the student. The student can get this help and succeed.This helps out our future and teacher do not give up on

Education in the United States already excludes people based on socioeconomic status: the poor are often unable to afford luxuries like college educations, private schools, and tutors. The public education system, however, was supposed to enable lower income students to gain an education comparable to private education. However, there is no comparison between private education and public education, especially when public education is not equitably funded. Beyond differences in education funding from state to state, individual school districts have funding disparity from school to

Most public schools provide students the necessities and skills they need to succeed, so it is up to them whether or not one decides to use those necessities to achieve a goal. Everyone needs it. It doesn’t matter who they are. Everyone has and should get freedom and education no matter what race. They can achieve whatever they want.

Ramkumari is a little schoolgirl who attends The Class 3 (third grade) whose aspirations were to become a schoolteacher when she grows up. She was accountable for preparing the lunch meal for her family as all of them except Ramkumari went to the fields early in the morning, so they would expect the food to be cooked by the time they return. Ramkumari did not mind making food for the family because she didn’t want them to stop sending her to school since she wanted to be a schoolteacher. The emphasis of this article is the aspiration, social mobility and education of little girls from Class 1 to Class 5 in the small

Here in America every single child is sent to school starting at the age of five years old for kindergarten, and sometimes as early as two years old for pre-school and continue on to get an education late into their twenties, some even going on to take classes the rest of their lives. Education in America is something that is readily available and even is required by law, but taken for granted by many children. On flip side third world countries often do not have schools or public education mandated by government, and most times it is not even available when most children yearn for it. Education is taken for granted in America, and in third world countries where education is almost completely absent something can be learned from their

Mahasweta Devi’s short story, “Giribala,” is about the life of Giribala, a girl of Talsana village located in India. Born into a caste in a time when it was still customary to pay a bride-price, Giri is sold to Aulchand by her father. From this point on, we see a series of unfortunate, tragic events that take place in Giri’s life as a result of the circumstances surrounding Giri’s life. There are many issues in Giri’s life in India that Devi highlights to readers. First, the economic instability of the village leads to an extremely poor quality of life for the lower, working classes. Next, the cruel role of women determined by men in society is to either satisfy the sexual desires of men or to reproduce offspring who can work or be sold off to marriages. There are also other social norms and beliefs which discriminate against women that will be discussed.

It is inarguable that Tambudzai experiences multiple family problems when it comes to earning her education. When Tambudzai’s family can only afford to send one child to school and they choose to send her. This situation in particular truly

In America kids get the opportunity to get a free education but not anyone takes advantage of this opportunity. In countries like Iraq not a lot of kids get the opportunity to get an education. In countries like these only boys are allowed to get an education while girls are forced to stay home not to step foot into a school or get the right to learn and expand their minds. While kids might complain about school or don’t want to go they should think of the children not being able to learn at all. I know that I want to be very successful and so do a lot of kids but education can be beneficial in many ways. Education can save children’s lives, increase income, and reduces poverty.