Persuasive Essay On Refugees In America

For the last few, lengthy years America has been taking in refugees. Refugees are “a person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.” Now given that statement, schools all across America have been overpopulated. Cutting school funds and reducing the lunch to small bits. You’d think the opposite would happen, right? Wrong. (http://www.cbpp.org/research/state-budget-and-tax/most-states-have-cut-school-funding-and-some-continue-cutting). As Michael Leachman so kindly and intelligently put, “At least 31 states provided less state funding per student in the 2014 school year (that is, the school year ending in 2014) than in the 2008 school year, before the recession took hold. In at least 15 states, the cuts exceeded 10 percent.” America has always been the motherboard of the world, taking in refugees and helping out our sister country France. We have always been there to help and support those in trouble (disregarding our past situation with certain countries; we’re a pretty good country to those around us.)

The more students assigned to a class/teacher- the more that teacher has to do to keep their numbers high. The more the teachers have to do to get ALL of his/her students to pass his/her class. The more students who pass- the higher up in sorority he/she becomes. (Plus that end the year bonus to the teacher with the highest test scores is pretty sweet too). Having said that some teachers take the easy way out. Taking advantage of the refugees who are not so great at our complicated English language, most teachers (as I and multiple others have witnessed) are less likely to write up or even discipline these refugee students. Most teachers also have this awful habit of passing their refugee students instead of making them work hard or even teaching them the way they should