Why Must Teachers Close The Budget Deficit?

Of course, there is also the long-term damage to the state through these crippling education cuts. Larger class sizes and fewer classrooms mean fewer students will learn. Fewer students will attend college, fewer will get good jobs or create new businesses and technologies. The state will be set back even further - California will become Mississippi.

Unfortunately, our country doesn't really think about the future consequences of our actions. To name a few current examples: Iraq, global warming, our dependence on oil, factory farming, environmental destruction, suburbia, genetically modified food and abstinence only education. And I think to myself, what a wonderful world.

I had posted a NY Times article on MySpace about a new book coming out on how Americans are hostile to knowledge, and another article came out recently about teenagers being rather ignorant of history and literature facts ( granted some of the questions I could not answer). I would love to do a science survey. Just when our students seem to be learning less, falling behind other countries, California, home to some of the most prestigious universities in the country, is ready to slash funding so crucially that we are going to layoff teachers in the thousands?! And that's just in Orange County.

No Child Left Behind has done plenty by itself to make education into an assembly line, why must we make our students suffer any more?

On another note, as an aspiring teacher, where does that leave me? When will the budget include hiring new teachers? Do I give up and go back to school in something else? Since we're in a recession, its not like I can get a random job till things get better, so I'm not sure I can just wait it out. I have the worst timing.

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