In this article, it shows how Trump is proposing that private schools should be given part of the governmental funds for its tuition. This being said, public schools will not have much attention anymore considering the funds. However, this article states that even if some of the tuition is paid for, the amount would not be significant enough to completely pay for the tuition of any private school. For example, it says that this amount would come out to around $1,800 for each person compared to the overall price of private school tuition being more than $11,000. Also mentioned in this article is the lack of funds that the less wealthy, public school children would receive. These children wouldn't get as much, if any, of the money they used to get that helped with their school careers. Also, this proposal is being depicted even worse in this article when it shows how kids receiving these funds to go to private school are not doing as well academically as they were in the public school system.
The focus of this article seemed very negative towards this proposal by Trump, and I would have to agree. I think that this choice to help the school system is a good idea, but it doesn't seem like it would be helping the entire school system. Most of the kids attending public school don't have enough of the funds to attend a private school, so why would we take away more of their funds so that they can't attend public school? The only kids that this is affecting for the better are the private school kids. This is a twisted idea of giving more money to the people who at least already have enough funds to pay for its tuition. This is the reason I chose this article. As I was looking through news articles, I came across this article on US News by Neil Campbell. It really intrigued me how Trump could think of taking more of the funds from the less wealthy and giving it to the somewhat or decently wealthy. Even though Trump might be trying to benefit the school system and its funds, it would hurt so much more of the population to carry out this proposal.
https://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2016-09-09/donald-trumps-education-plan-boosts-private-schools-hurts-kids
I agree that they shouldn't take funds away so they might not go to a public school. It is hard to get into private schools and people barely afford public school.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with you that money should not be taken away from kids who are barely able to attend public schools. We should be putting more money forward in order to improve this schools and allow future generations to improve our world.
ReplyDeleteI agree that public schools should be more properly taken care of. This is a form of denying people's educations, which is a fundamental human right. This is another example of the rich benefiting from the poor, and we should be doing our best to assure everyone a proper education.
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