Texas Public Education System is Suffering

Budget Cuts in Texas Public Education

My fellow colleague had several reasonably valid points in her blog post about how the State of Texas keeps cutting education budgets in the public school system.  The importance of our children and their education and the quality of that education is top priority.  As cliche as it may sound, these children that are experiencing these awful budget cuts in their education will be running our country, etc. one day in the not so far away future.  While I realize the budget cuts must be made somewhere, education definitely should not be the area to cut back.  As Caitlin has mentioned, teachers must be strong to accomplish the huge task they have ahead of them but when they're very much distracted by fears of being unemployed their performance is bound to be directly affected.  Also when you begin to decrease the amount of available teachers, but the amount of students does not change, the teacher to student ratio will be a crazy number.  With more students with one teacher, the quality of education the children are getting will be affected again by the teacher not having the time to take that extra moment with a student when it's needed. 

Another disturbing statement is how the Texas public education system is cutting those programs that allow our children to become more well-rounded individuals by learning another language or music or art.  Taking this extra "incentive" also could have the opposite effect on the child and not motivate them to achieve.  From a child's point of view, if I never get to have fun or have some down time then what's the point of doing any of it??  I know when I was a kid, I absolutely loved going to music class, art class, and watching a movie or playing fun games in the classroom.  It's those simple extra things that kids find value in especially if it's a fun activity for them.  My colleague also mentioned how the school system could just use some reforming.  I agree that trying to look at budget cuts differently and having the schools stop being so wasteful by recycling items such as sports uniforms, equipment, among other supplies could help boost it up a little bit to help get the state of Texas back on track!  Regardless of whatever justifications the state government has come up with, our public education system is crucial for the development of our future Texas!  Stop cutting what really matters and look for areas to cut in the state budgets that do not directly affect the students and teachers so we can improve our public school system!!!

"Budget Cuts in Texas Public Education"
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