Middle Ages Of Egypt And Its Effect On Education - 2240 Words

Education began around 3000 to 500 B.C.E. in the early ages of Egypt and has been advancing and changing ever since. Technology has played a huge role in the progression of where education stands today but education has also seen a tough set back in critical aspects of serving its purpose of providing children with a proper education s that they are prepared and can succeed. Although some may find that the current education system in America, even in the depressed urban school settings, are functioning just fine, many people will advocate that drastic changes need to be done to fix the problems. Tenure does not pose any harm toward the education system; it gives teachers a stable environment to work in so that they are able to teach†¦show more content†¦David McGrath, a teacher at Edison State College says, â€Å"Tenure ensures academic freedom to teach important concepts such as evolution and classic texts† (Teacher Tenure). A school most likely will not be willin g put in thousands of dollars and spend months exhausting court dates and other meetings because a teacher had taught a controversial book. The teacher would most likely be given smack on the back of the hand and it will be over with. When charter schools are implemented in urban school settings it draws money away from the other public schools in the same district. Superintendent Hank Allen argues that putting up new charter school next to a hurting public school is only avoiding the problems next door; â€Å"it’s sort of like having a road or highway that you can’t take care of then adding a new highway that you’re going to have to take care of. That’s the analogy [he] would use, because [he believes] we should first take care of what we have, before talking about adding charter schools,† (Moore 2). This supports the view that a focused attention on the shiny new charter schools results in a lack of dedication to the children who are left behind at the public school. Former representative James C. Fields of Alabama opposes the idea of charter schools seeing that â€Å"public funding is already based on their