How can we make quality education available & equatible to all children in all areas across our great nation?

Question

It is still a problem. It has not been solved.

There is a great imbalance of quality public schools across all of our school systems. It has been talked about and some ideas have been put in place but skewed conditions still exist across urban to suburb to rural areas and across high income to middle income to low income areas.

Our public education system is meant to help ALL our children. We MUST equally give them ALL hope and a chance to live a better life, otherwise we have failed our children as a nation and failed miserably.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, the problem begins in the home. Too many times I hear people clamoring for more money for education. In some areas, yes that would help. However in those areas, all too often the family structure is so destroyed, children have no reinforcement
or foundation for their education at home.
In many urban areas, the money is available to schools, yet horribly mismanaged. Tenured teachers have no incentive to actually make sure that students are learning. Often times they simply are counting the days to retirement. while collecting a very high percentage of the budgeted salary dollars. The problems are far reaching.
Basically, it is up to the families to raise their children. In today's society, families often leave that up to the schools....no amount of money in the world will fix that problem

Answer 2

Great question! But I don't think we can get equal distirbution in every school, even though that is the ideal situation.
A lot of this starts at home. A family needs to teach their kids that education is important. Because it is difficult for even the best teacher to teach when the kids do not care about learning. Parents need to be more involved in their kids learning.
If we can get kids focused on learning, that will make a key difference, especially when kids are not distracted because one kid looks at in-school suspension as a reward so they are trying to get rewarded by going in there.
Another step is to make sure that every kid has access to a decent textbook and has teachers that are adequately trained and are motivated to teach. A lot of teachers get burned out because kids are not focused on learning or get burned by a bureaucracy that does not reward kids.
A third step is to get rid of No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The theory is great, but it is a disaster to schools. How can you expect a 15 year old with a mental and intellectual capacity of a 4 year old to read at his or her grade level? But No Child Left Behind demands that. Finally, in terms of funding, a school must have a minimum per student funding, but with NCLB, a school that has kids unable or unwilling to learn will lose funding because they can't make the grade.

I see schools that are given funding, but they use it towards the wrong things. They are not focused on activities to teach kids to learn. Schools need to make sure that teachers have supplies.

Answer 3

spend 1/10 of 1% of our defense budget on kids