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The Pros And Cons Of The American Education System
Like many deep problems within the United States and other countries the issues at hand first being with income. With a lack of income less education can be bought, healthy food seems outside the financial reach and even heath care is viewed as a paid for privilege. So without nourishing food, proper education and a way to keep one healthy how could they possible be given an equal chance at life to succeed?

The answer is simple and unfortunate, their odds of succeeding in life are more difficult to reach which will continue the cycle of poverty, illness and the crimes that are related. In order to truly make the American education system equal the schools with a lower graduation rates would be required to reach outside their means of teaching the children and first teach the parents how to parents and raise successful young adults. In many cases schools simply cannot reach the homes and are set to fail.

In an attempt to revamp the education system in a very controversial way is the
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I made sure that my son sat for both the math and english testing this year, and guess what? He survived the testing, did not stress himself into crying fits and according to the resent test results that I received in the mail, he passed!

Here in Camden there was a big uproar against common core which pushed me to do some research about the pro's and con's on the new set of standards. After watching several debates, nightly going over my son's homework with him to make sure he understood and his comment the day before the testing “Mom, Shea said that if you wrote me a letter that I wouldn't have to take the tests like his mom did.” I knew that making him follow through on what the teacher had been teaching all year was the right decision.

So, as it sits is education given as an equal opportunity to this countries children? No. With education reform, hard work and parental oversight is equal education opportunities possible?

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