Protecting Immigrant Children's Right To Public Education Essay

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Education is an essential start in our life and is needed to go find working opportunities. Everyone is allowed to go yet there are individuals who are stating that illegal immigrants should not be entitled to public education. Even though it can be great to have fewer immigrants, it can lead to uneducated kids, education gives more opportunities to the kids, and can lead to safer life. To begin with, public education gives a variety of opportunities but if it isn’t open to illegal immigrant children it can cause problems. First of all, if the children are uneducated they won't have a good future and if they don’t have a good future then it can lead them down a bad path when they grow older. In the article Protecting Immigrant Children’s Right to Education “the long-range costs of excluding any children from the public schools may well outweigh the costs of educating them.” Thus showing that excluding them from going to public school can lead to consequences and not improve the way of the whole country. …show more content…

They can get more opportunities than if they were living somewhere where the education is poor. According to Planetspark, “These children do not have access to the same educational opportunities and facilities as those enjoyed by the citizens of America.” As in here in the U.S, kids get better facilities, better equipment, and better life conditions. It should be noted that encouraging the children to participate in public schools could make them less worried about their future and “give them hope for a better future”(planetspark). More opportunities for children, more opportunities for their parents in hoping they have a brighter future with no negative barriers stopping