Education Takes a Cut

The ongoing issue with education is now taking a turn to cut school days out of the school year for the Los Angeles School District. An agreement between school district officials and employee unions was already agreed upon; now it just needs to be voted on to be finalized. I think that there are some pros and definitely some cons to this proposal. First this will save jobs, keep class sizes low, and save the district a ton of money. However, it also can hurt instruction. In my opinion I think that if this is the only way and last resort to this problem, then they should do it. But, I think that this can cause a harmful effect in the instruction for the children. The students are going to be losing seven valuable days of learning. Even though class sizes won’t be as much, they will still be big and now the teacher has to figure out someway to cram more and more information into the students. To me education has also been on the back burner. I think that more funds should be allocated toward education. There are things that can be cut back from before they start cutting back on education. The foundation for how our society works and functions is based on a child’s education. I know California, along with the rest of the country is in a financial crisis, but I think that there is careless and reckless spending in other areas that need to be assessed before teachers and students are the ones suffering. If cutting school days from our schools doesn’t work, then what’s next?