How my school is affected by Ohio’s school funding problems

By: Rachel Hagen

8^th grade

Hillside Middle School

A person needs a good education to get a good job, right? Well, It seems that the Ohio school system doesn’t care if we students don’t get a good education. Ohio board members keep preaching that education is the “ key to the future”. Well, if that’s true, why do they squander the school’s money that should be used wisely and careful for the students needs in the classrooms? Why is the cost of sports for students rising, the number of teachers decreasing, and the quality of school building disappearing along with the school’s money? I personally want to know what’s going to happen to my education.

With the way the cost for sports are rising it’s surprising that the schools even have teams any more. I mean, sports have always been a little pricey but with the way it’s cost is rising you think they’re playing pro. Sports have always been apart of any school’s program and they’ll always be. But if the costs keep rising, very few people will do sports due to the price. Why are the schools raising the price of sports? Is it because it unwisely spent by the school board?

Speaking of doing things unwisely, the number of educators (teachers) have been rapidly falling because the school system needs to “ cut down” unneeded classes, like Home EC, music, and art. Without the levies, these types of classes and the teachers that head classes, will be cut from the school. Do the Ohio board members know how many jobs are based on these classes? Or that so many students that could have the talent to improve these types of jobs go untrained because these classes will be cut? I have a very good talent for art but if the levies don’t pass, nearly all of the art classes will be cut. Plus many people, who specialize in these areas, will have no jobs.

Also, without the levies the school buildings will slowly breakdown. Why, you ask? Well, first of all, most of the money will be spent on classes and such things, and the building loses the money that goes to repair it. Second, with the low staffing budget, the school will get messier because there’s so much to clean and there are very little people to clean it. These are the reasons the building will lose its qualities. Did you guess where the reasons came from? That’s right, it’s the levies again.

All these problems are caused by the way the Ohio school board is spending the money and in turn that causes the levies and that causes the problems in my school. You see how the Ohio school board is the reason behind all my school’s problems? Well, I do and I plan to do something. I plan to, around the time people vote for the next levies, tell people my reasons that they should vote for the levies. They should vote for my fellow students and my education.