All children have a right to have an education. The bottom line is that all children, no matter who they are, what they look like, where they are from, or what they identify as deserve access to education and to be treated equally. In 1974 Congress passed the Equal Education Opportunities Act which states “no U.S. state can deny equal educational opportunity to any person on the basis of gender, race, color, or nationality through intentional segregation by an educational institution” and is meant to create true equality in our education system. If you’ve been reading the news recently, however, you know that students with wealth still have a leg up in this country over their less wealthy counterparts. Being born into a family that’s been going to a school for generations, even an Ivy League school, puts you at the front of the line for acceptance to that school no matter what your grades are, which is not fair for hard-working and less wealthy students. The path to a good education should be that if you work hard and get good grades, you can go to any school you want to. However, if you come from a financially disadvantaged family, hard work may not be enough. There is still a huge percentage of first-generation college students in America every year, and I feel that we should be past that at this point.
The Right To Education
The Right To Education
The Right To Education
All children have a right to have an education. The bottom line is that all children, no matter who they are, what they look like, where they are from, or what they identify as deserve access to education and to be treated equally. In 1974 Congress passed the Equal Education Opportunities Act which states “no U.S. state can deny equal educational opportunity to any person on the basis of gender, race, color, or nationality through intentional segregation by an educational institution” and is meant to create true equality in our education system. If you’ve been reading the news recently, however, you know that students with wealth still have a leg up in this country over their less wealthy counterparts. Being born into a family that’s been going to a school for generations, even an Ivy League school, puts you at the front of the line for acceptance to that school no matter what your grades are, which is not fair for hard-working and less wealthy students. The path to a good education should be that if you work hard and get good grades, you can go to any school you want to. However, if you come from a financially disadvantaged family, hard work may not be enough. There is still a huge percentage of first-generation college students in America every year, and I feel that we should be past that at this point.