Marco Cuevas
English 1A
Ms. Williams
8 October, 2013
School
Resources
A child in school
strongly relies on its resources to succeed. These resources can vary depending
on the needs of the child and the curriculum of the school. When a student does
not have its proper school supplies by the start of the new school year he is
already fallen behind. A student needs to have his materials before hand in
order to start properly, when a student does not have these materials, he feels
uncared-for. As many students rely on their parents for school supplies, when
the student does not have this supplies his feelings of not being cared for are
brought up. He starts to distort possible scenarios of the parents not caring
about him. From this initial feeling he will continue to distort other
feelings. So therefore when the child does not have the proper school
materials, he will feel uncared- for, when it could have been a possible issue
of the parents not having the money in order to provide the child with these
essential needs.
Other then the child
feeling uncared-for; the student can also feel unsupported. We know that a lot
of the times a student can fall into negative behaviors due to having poor or
no family support in his education. When a student lacks the proper attention
from its family towards his education, issues arise. In school the student will
not put much effort to learn anything or to simply focus on the material being
taught. The feelings of not being supported by his family will overcome the
importance of getting educated. And the
The main issue that
will instantly be raised due to a child not having his proper school supplies
will be anger. The child will feel angry once he is in class and starts to see
other students getting their things ready except him. He will instantly be
intimated by others and will want to have the same things. The anger will
overcome him not allow him to focus or even allow others to focus, the child
will then distract everyone else in order to get the same thing, as his other classmate.
Anger is very powerful and as a child is hard to know how to properly manage this
anger without causing issues. So therefore, having the proper resources for
school is critical I order to have children function properly in a school
environment.
When we focus on the
outcome of students not being provided with the proper school materials, due to
poor funding, we will have poorly educated communities because a lot of the
students will not make it out of high school. When a community has groups of citizens
that because of a poor education cannot function properly we will encounter
more violent individuals. These violent individuals will then create violence
by possibly joining a local gang. As we know gangs are groups that fight for
control over territories so therefore it will create turmoil in within the
city, causing more issues to the city.
Also, due to these
circumstances a lot of these individuals will become substance abusers. Such as
alcohol, marijuana or other hard drugs like methamphetamine or crystal. These
citizens will then become victims of the drugs and will be prone to cause
violence and serve no good for our communities. This will directly affect not
just themselves but others around them as; they will be exposed to the violence
and will cause issues in within themselves as well. The importance of the need
for the suppliers to get substances to the individuals whom consume it, will be
greater than focusing on the education to get them out of this circumstance,
since it will be easier for any of these type of individuals to get their
substance then to actually go and get an education.
But most importantly
the issue will be that because we have so many of these types of people, a lot
of them will find themselves incarcerated due to the harm they bring on people
in the community. And as we know this is
a major issue all across the system in the United States. It costs more money
to keep an inmate in jail a day then to keep a child in school for a day. So
therefore it is obvious that it will cost more money to house an inmate then to
keep a child in school for a year. And simply to mention that it will cost way
more to build a penitentiary than to build a school. It is really sad that we
are put under these circumstances as it should be the opposite. Education
should be the nation’s number one priority instead of building penitentiaries.
The types of citizens that are produced from a poorly funded school are low uneducated people that are put at
disadvantage since the beginning, making their failure almost inevitable.
But now going back, do
materials really matter in school? I strongly believe that they do matter. One of
the reasons why they matter is because those materials are essential for learning.
Let’s say that a class is required to have a book that is required to go along
with the material and the class curriculum of the teacher. The students receive
a whole different textbook that does not cover the context of the classmate as
it may vary due to a different edition, but they are told that is very similar
to just go along because the school does not have the proper funds to provide
all the students with the newest edition of that book. Some of the student will
not be able not catch up as the material in the book will be different than
what they’re instructor is actually teaching them. It creates a disadvantage
for some of those that will require a little more explaining, due to for
example in this case, the differences in the textbooks.
Just like materials matter
for the students and teachers in the school, they are necessary for those maintaining
our schools. Imagine if the janitors did not have the materials to keep the
school clean, it would be like hell for students, having to attend a place more
like a trash can than a school. The janitors are resources that students and
the school need in order to keep the learning environment suitable for its purpose.
So therefore materials matter in order to keep students learning and a school
properly running.
School materials matter
because they are simply a part of a school environment, a school would not be a
place of learning if we did not have the proper school materials. We need a board,
we need desks, tables, we need pencils, we need notebooks, and we need books
etc. Materials under any circumstance matter because they are needed to
accomplish certain things that we want to see accomplished. They are the
resources of the students, and the students are the resources of a school, the
school is a resource of a community, a community of a county, a county of state
and a state of nation so therefore everything is correlated and in order to
create the greatest nation that us Americans implying on being, we need to
start from the rock bottom which is creating sane educated individuals and it
all starts with our schools.
