Students that have resources become thankful from the advantages they get to have from their education. Having the correct amount resources could be as simple as having enough paper, books, or new desks in a classroom; a more crucial tool to have is a teacher in the classroom. In the book Salvage Inequalities the author Jonathan Kolzo explains, " On a average morning in Chicago, 5,700 children in a 190 classrooms come to school to find they have no teacher," (63). Having a teacher in a classroom is one of the most important necessities a classroom needs for it to function. With having a teacher that comes in everyday, to teach as much knowledge as possible to his/her students, they cannot help but feel blessed that they have a person so willing to help them for their futures. With having that strong bond of student and teacher, it will just keep a positive cycle in the classroom.With having enough resources, student become thankful from what the receive in their education.
Having enough resources makes students feel accomplished from what they learned in the classroom. Students feel proud when they are able to learn something knew and are able to keep that knowledge for getting a successful grade. At the end of a school day, parents ask how their child test went and if they had gotten a high score; when children show their parents what the have achieved, they could tell how happy their parents are and feel proud of themselves. To have this high self-esteem as a student, it makes you want to keep learning something knew to master it; having this quality a student can just keep learning different material. The only way a student can have this feeling is having enough materials to be able to learn new material; such as a updated book or a working computer.Without the materials equally distributed, students can not personally have their own materials to learn correctly. Students feel accomplished when the learned something valuable by having enough resources in the classrooms.
The circumstances in which materials in a school do matter is when the effects start to become physically harmful to students. A school is supposed to be a safe place for children, but without the correct resources this safe place can become a unsanitary environment. In the book Salvage Inequalities the author Kolzo states," Sewage flowed into the basement, through the floor, then up into the kitchen and the students' bathrooms. The backup, we read "occurred in the food preparation areas," (29). In this school, the circumstances had gotten so badly that students were in danger and couldn't attend school until it was fixed. With students being around this type of conditions, they could easily become very ill; even may catch something serious such as mono or a bacteria disease. With students being within this type of environment and becoming sick they will miss long periods of school and fall way behind in their classes. If there was the correct resources in these type of harmful school, they could have prevent this type of flood from the source and not have it spread to the whole school; then the school could have been kept open and not have to be closed down. It's important for schools to have the needed amount of resources so that it won't become physically harmful to students.
A circumstance when materials do matter in a school is when it starts to effect the students ability to learn properly. Without having the correct materials in the classrooms, students aren't able to learn the lesson to the full extent as it would be with the right resources. In the book Salvage Inequalities the author Kolzo says," Instead, as a cost-saving measure, the school system has supplied them with cheap cocktail glasses. There is so little water surface that there is no room for the waves to form," (169). With even this simple science experiment, students aren't able to get the full understanding of the lesson. How are students supposed to further their education if they can't understand what's happening in their classrooms? To learn new material students need to learn it in all different ways and forms to understand how it works. If they are able to understand the small idea of it, they could move to a higher level of the certain subject to learn more about it; this can only happen if materials are available for them to learn it correctly. Students need the correct amount of materials so it does not compromise their education.
The conditions in which a school would not need materials is if they were greedy to get a new renovation of something that was already in tacked. It's important to have a schools to be updated that is safe for students, but there is a point when trying to be safe becomes more of just wanting to spend the money that is available. Usually this situation would happen to more wealthy schools that have high funds to be able to have all the newest/modern technology. A example if a wealthy school wanted to get the newest apple computers for their students to have in their computer labs. They would already have functioning computers that work just fine, but yet the would want to have that newest one since the money is available to buy them. With this type of mindset, the people making these decisions start to become more demanding of materials that would not need any type of upgrading such as the computers. There is some type of circumstances were materials are not always needed in a school.
The type of citizens that are produced from the lack of materials are clueless to how much education is important for their future. Many students in poorly funded public schools give up in their education, but they never realize how crucial it is to have a diploma to get a successful career. Now in our society, we need a high school and college diploma to get a job that will give is a steady income. This type of job could be as high as a doctor or simple as a florist. Not having this type of further education could result in a person having a minimum wage job such as a fast food restaurant. Being young like a middle or high school student, they don't realize how much it money it makes to support themselves without struggling. These type of students that end up dropping out and getting a minimum wage job are unaware of how difficult it will be to find a job that will support them in a non stressful manner; if they stayed in school they would not have to deal with these type of issues. Clueless citizens are produced from the poorly funded schools with lack of materials.
Another type of citizens that are produced from the lack of materials are ones who take the jobs that no one else wants to do. Without have the correct education, people care forced to take jobs that will give them some type of money to support them self to survive. A type of job like this could be a janitor, farmer, or house keeper. There is nothing wrong to have a type of job like these, but not a lot of people strive to have this type of career from all the options they would have if they were able to have any career choice. The reason people would be forced to pick this job is by how it is so available since people don't want to have this type of physically demanding job. With these type of jobs, they are basically getting a cheated pay for all that they have to physically do. Citizens are forced to pick jobs that no one else wants to do since they gave up in their education by the lack of materials in their poorly funded schools.
A positive effect that can come out of a citizen with the lack of materials in their school would to become determined to successful do anything they want to become. When a person is in a tough environment for such a long time, it could give them motivation to want to move on to a better place. Seeing how in other towns there's such wonderful schools and resources, it makes them push through all of the hardships to want to have that education and advantages too. These people understand that with the type of resources they have, it won't let them get the full potential of what an education would be like at a better school. With having this type of mind set, it could make citizens that will push through any obstacle in their lives to become what ever they want to become. A determined citizen can be the product of a poorly funded school with lack of materials.
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