It’s not money, it is time
During my sixteen years of education, I have found that it does not matter how much money you give schools. The most important part of education is the amount of instructional time students have. Throwing money at schools will only cause them to find ways to spend the money, but I have never seen a school spend the money in any way that has much of a positive impact on the amount of knowledge students are learning. Along with the amount of time that students are instructed in school it is extremely important for students to have support from home. This positive influence at home is proven to be an extremely benefit for students performances.
Instead of giving schools money, we need to put requirements on the schools to increase instructional time to get more funds. This extra money will allow schools to offer extra classes or services to students to improve their performance and knowledge. I would even suggest compensation for families whose students improve their performance by a certain percentage. This will help to persuade parents of the importance of modeling and helping of students outside of school because it will help their child’s future and will help to keep food on the table at the same time. I know that this may be difficult to provide money to families for their child’s grade improvement, But I feel that this will not just help families but it will help the entire community.
I know that in the past school districts have tried to reward students for success without much success. The fault in this is that students do not know the value of money, but for the most part, parents do have a better idea of the value. This will also help to build connections between parents and students that will help the student to be more successful. This may even create a situation that allows parents the opportunity to get their student into a better situation than they are already in. This situation is an extremely benefit for both the parents and the student because parents could get some more money and be closer to their student. Also the student gets a closer relationship to their parent or parents and possibly learns more and has a better education.
This post was submitted by Nick McCauley.
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