EDUCATION PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES

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EDUCATION PROBLEM IN THE UNITED STATES

Education is the process of facilitating learning through the gaining of knowledge, skill, and habits that one acquires from training and development. The education system has encountered numerous challenge over the past years. The challenges may include lack of good payment of the teachers, the institutional facilities may not be adequate and there may be a shortage of support staff in the institution, class sizes being small e.t.c. These problems may not fully be tackled but by the help of the government support to ensure a better education system in the country may lead to a greater change. Education is an important aspect in our lives it broadens our thinking and creative skill for a greater benefit in the future.

Los Angeles Unified School District is the biggest public school system in the U.S it was formed in September 1853, as a separate district. These districts were Los Angeles City District (1853) and Los Angeles City High School District (1980). This district merged on July 1961 forming the Los Angeles Unified School District they have ensured learning facility has gone on successful through out the years. It’s the second largest employer in the Los Angeles County serving over seven hundred students. The district also has employed over twenty-six thousand teachers who are in charge of the student and other employees in various school. The budget of the school has increased over the years up to Seven billion in the current year. This school district has ensured that the livelihood of the young students has been natured and they grow and develop over the recent years. This school district also has encountered various challenges in the years with most of the students dropping out of the school and cases of drug abuse by the youths in the county. Their various challenges have been improved by the use of programs to ensure that the future lives of the students are not destroyed as a result of drug abuse and dropping out of school.

The massive scale of this district would lead to a depreciation of the learning facility in the schools. The facility of the school over the years have not been equitably distributed through the county leading to overcrowding in the schools. This has made the schools not facilitate the learning activity in the proper manner, the class sizes have also contributed largely to this problem. The number of students in classes depends on the school class size, each class can hold a particular number of students. This overcrowding effect has led to the school not able to facilitate research and laboratory practical for the student as a result of the scale of the student. The school facilities get depleted over time; this makes the learning activity ineffective and may lead to a lack of facility at all.

The amount of students in the institution makes the service that was to be successful not be a reality as a result understaffing. The schools may lack the proper staff to do the job and the learning activity would not take place in the right manner. The problem of understaffing makes the institution not to employ the most qualified staff in the county, the qualified ones are left behind and this makes the learners not attain the proper service they would have attained. The staffs who are in the school are then left behind to overwork in these institutions and do not give the services in a proper manner.

The employed staff that is overworked get there reward in the long run in small amount according to the work they have done. These rewards include there monthly salary and the allowances which are in a small amount not to be able to cope up with their daily and monthly expenses. This lead to a strike in the district that the staff complained about their salary and they needed a pay increase by six percent, this is a result of the increase in cost of living in California. The employed staff requires a pay rise which is not available by the county government; this amount may be available in the reserves to cop up with the demand of the staff.

The teachers are not only complaining about their demand but also lack of nurses, librarian and support staff that help an institution to work effectively. The institution may lack nurses or if available they are to serve a lot of students in both the middle schools and also the high school. Some of the institutions may lack the librarian and nurses at all. This makes the daily running of school activity become a problem and a great challenge to the few employees in the institution.

The school facility is usually a big problem as most of the school furniture and necessities of studying are a great problem. The classes are huge and the amount of furniture in the classes is not able to fully fit in in the classes and this makes a challenge to the overcrowed student in the school. More small classes would make it easy to facilitate the learning process and ensure that the furniture is distributed in each class equally. The small classes would ensure that the number of students in each class is maintained for an effective learning activity.

The effect of the strike would affect most the students over half a million students who mostly come from the poor background. These students mostly depend on the district school for health, food and other necessary needs. This school provides a cheap amount of food to the student who is not able to cop up with high rise in cost of living in California. The strike would make the student not able to get these necessary services that are offered. The strike would lead these students to stay at home and get involved in various inappropriate activity that includes drug abuse which is common in the county. Other would be forced to engage in theft and illegal activities that would eventually lead to dropping out of the students in the long run.

The government may help this situation by involving the school’s staff together. They then work out a negotiable paycheck that would be satisfactory to both parties. The government would come up with the amount required to pay the staff in the institution, through the help of county government reserve or the overall national government. This support would ensure the students are saved from the crisis that would affect their education.

The county government would also come up with a strategy of restructuring the school away from the old form that consisted huge classes this would be a cost to the county but also beneficial to both the school and the district. Small classes would ensure that the number of students is maintained in the institution while also the teachers have a small task of taking care of the student. The schools would use a small amount of furniture and school necessity being increased by the help of the funding by the county government. The small classes would increase the income generating of the school as compared to the huge ones which were not fully used.

There should also be an increase of support staff by employing them to the schools in the district. The county government should employ over a thousand staff to help decrease the overworking of the staff still in this institution. The employment of new staff would make running the education run in a smooth way. The employment of qualified staff would bring a boost off to the education quality in the county and an in improvement to learning activity. The school should also engage in a campaign program of counseling the students as they develop from the middle classes to the higher levels. This would make them come to reflect on their future lives because the future of the country depends on the choices they make as they develop and gain knowledge. This eventually reduces the number of drops out and also the drug addict in the county.

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