school resources

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.