enabling poverty
Today it seems to be ok that our educational system is receiving less and less funding while the prison system is gaining more and more. Today it seems to be acceptable for our country to have more prisons than award winning schools. Today it seems to be acceptable that we set up our poverty stricken and economically challenged communities for failure. Today we acknowledge This deficit and demand change. Many take the liking to the word “recession”. With a recession comes budget cuts and set backs. With a recession comes evaluations and investigations on acts that had been overlooked for years. Some of these budget cuts that occur in a “recession” are the last budgets that should be cut. The education of ourselves, our children, and our communities should never be sacrificed during an economical hardship. The way to overcome an economical hardship is through knowledge and understanding. You gain those 2 attributes by being educated. So how are we to ever come out of our economic standing if we cannot be educated due to the funding being cut? Then the government wants to ask “why we have so many children dropping out of school and flooding the justice system?”, “why do we have so many repeat offenders?” and “how about we try toughening the criminal laws”. Our justice system is being flooded because the people we elect to uphold our best interest’s decide is more profitable to keep us where we’re at. The people flooding the jails is not the rich white population, its the poor minority one. According to Highlands Today, In a Florida School Advisory Council Meeting held in January 2009, the 2008-09 state budget (.FLGOV.com) showed a $332.3 million cut for education funding but allotted $309 million for new prisons, which is $10 million more then all K-12 construction
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