What does money really have to do with it?

What does money really have to do with it?

In reality money has everything to do with our education system. Money is not distributed to our schools fairly, instead it is based on the location of the schools. A school that is located near wealthy neighborhoods will be a school that has all kinds of new and fun technology, better teachers, better infrastructure, and many more things. On the other hand, if a school is located near mobile homes, apartments, and a less fortunate neighborhood that school will probably have the most basic technology, teachers that no other district/schools want to hire, and it will be an older school. Whether we are willing to admit it or not we tend to look for jobs that are going to be easier on us and working at a low-income school is going to be harder because the students there are more likely to have lived harder lives which is going to reflect in their behavior in the classroom. Also, teachers do not receive as much support in low-income schools as they do in higher income schools. In higher income schools they have parents that are involved in their kid's school life (sometimes helicopter parents), your principals are going to be there to help you, and you will have a better support system. Since low-income schools do not have all those resources it is hard to recruit good teachers. I also think that a new budget for teachers' pay needs to be put in place because teachers are extremely important, and it is a little ridiculous that an NFL football player gets paid more than teachers do. I am not saying that they should be paid millions, but they should definitely be paid more than minimum wage. 

It is time we rethink how our schools receive their funding and make it fair for our children because they are not at fault for where they live. Every child should have the right to not only an equal education, but for an education with equity. I hope to see this change while I am teaching that way, I can see the change happen.