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Education and Prison Funding

Education should be the highest paid investment because if students are gaining the knowledge to be great in life they can bring back revenue into the economy. If students receive basic job skills in school, they get hired in the working world, leading to less people seeking public assistance.
             Many programs and extracurricular activities have been cut from our education system, which does not provide kids with productive influences. Kathryn Hanson, CEO of ALearn, and Deborah Stipek, Dean of Standford University's Graduate School of Education, wrote for Mercury News that "Tutoring helps students stay on grade level and increases the likelihood of graduation" (2). Students should be able to have access to any programs that can help them. No child left behind was created to keep children on track and tutoring incorporates just that. "Counselors now have to quadruple the amount of students they work with, which is way pass what is recommended" (Hanson/Stipek 2). Counselors cannot focus on the need of individual students if they are over worked. Trying to make sure each student is getting the curriculum they need is tough. This then leads to mistakes and problems, which not only stresses the counselors but the students as well. According to Hanson and Stipek, "Studies repeatedly show that high-quality pre-school increases chances of high school completion and reduces the likelihood of incarceration. But California lags far behind in providing access to preschool" (2). Once upon a time we wanted our children to become high achievers, which starts in preschool; but over the years we let that dream go. Our state has truly transformed for the worse; pre-school access should not even be a topic of discussion in providing a public school education.
             Classroom overcrowding can lead to the increase of children in low income neighborhoods dropping out because they fall into the life of crime.


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