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In an article I read titled, "The State of American Education: Not so great" by Will Richardson which was talking about how millions of kids are dropping out of high school or failing out and this problem needs to be addressed everywhere. He pointed out that many cities might be oblivious to the huge amount of kids dropping out of school in even the biggest cities. Mr. Richardson was saying how he worked in a district that graduated over 90% of their students and how many of them went off to college, but that is not the case in many of the inner cities of America. In those schools it is about a fifty-two percentage of students graduating from school.
This relates to me because luckily I go a school where the teachers and staff work very hard to have the students make the best possible future for themselves. Meaning this we are always updating in technology and getting supplies that will better our education. The thing is that in less fortunate schools that are unable to get this kind of supplies, so should that really effect the learning? Do you really need the latest technology to get the same education as somebody from a very wealthy private school? Unfortunately I think that is true, which upsets me thinking that just because someone is born into a less wealthy home that they will not be able to receive the education that they deserve. All around the world I think that students may be denied a proper education because of the income their family makes, or the city they live in. I do not think that is fair at all because it seems that all that potential is going to waste, but then again if someone truly is trying to succeed as much as they can in life they will find a way. At the end he said, "We’re failing millions of kids." So to me that seems that all schools and districts or governments need to work together to make sure that every child has that opportunity to succeed. This means that something needs to change whether that is giving more money to schools to purchase the supplies needed, or hiring more teachers that are equipped with the skills to teach these kids even with out all of that fancy technology it can be done.