Equal Schools Issue Essay/Spoken Word

Some kids in mpls live within a few minutes driving distance, but live drastically different lives. Many suburban schools are mistaken for private schools by students for the schools' sheer size and wealth. Some suburban schools I have visited have been described as looking like an art museum by other visiting students. While all the public inner city schools simply struggle to make ends meet. This disparity is caused by the fact that schools acquire more money if they are in a richer neighborhoods. This system needs to be changed. Kids shouldn't have fewer opportunities because of where they live. I propose first that all public schools should have a minimum amount of money that is given to them regardless of any other factors if this doesn't already exist. Second schools should be given more money the more students the schools have. This will encourage the schools to improve and to use the same amount of money per student as other schools. This change will also get rid of the drastic disparities of public schools today. In order to make real change in this problem people need to make this a common topic and more of an issue. Another thing you can do to help it to write MN's politicians in mass quantities in order to get attention. Hopefully this change will happen one day and works so that kids can go to equal schools all throughout the state.

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