Without cash don't expect to pass. Lack of funding is the greatest crisis in American Public education. Schools with low funding have worse education. Students have a lack of supplies. Cheap lunches leave kids hungry and with no energy to perform well. The argument can be made that schools get a sufficient amount of money to get along, but it’s simply not enough. The lack of funding in public high schools causes students to perform worse than schools with an abundance of money. This is evident when looking at New Trier Township High School, a school that spends an average of $15,403 per student according to the University of Michigan, and Hubbard High School, a school that spends almost half of that per student. New Trier High School, in Reading, …show more content…
Children in younger grades often times are required to color and such for their school work, but without any markers, colored pencils, or crayons they can't do such a thing. Children usually need sharpeners and new pencils because they press down on them too hard and they break easily, but those things are not usually provided to them by the school. Without pencils or a sharpener to sharpen them they won't be able to do their work and they’ll fall behind. Students also need kleenex and hand sanitizer to keep away germs and many times schools don't have those types of supplies. In some schools, bathrooms don't even have soap for students to wash their hands. This becomes a problem when children get sick because the school didn’t provide the measures to prevent that and they have to miss school because the school doesn’t provide what is needed for a sick child to concentrate on his or her school work. A lot of viruses spread in schools and its the because of the limited supplies. The students are regularly required to provide those things for themselves and classmates. Teachers spend more money on their students than the school does. Some schools only give $100 a year for a teacher to buy supplies for their students for a whole year. That is nowhere near enough to sustain a classroom of about 30