Ridiculous Spending When Money is so Important

After reading bluetexas2011's article, "Texas Spends Millions on College Education for Inmates" I was very intrigued by her article. I had not taken the time to check into such a matter that very well is dear to my heart. Education is a very important factor in the lives of those who plan to obtain stability in life. She wrote a very well stated argument with a lot of opinion. With the knowledge she put in front of me this evening, I can say that Texas should indeed cut most or if not all the budget for the inmates in regards to education. Like she pointed out, about 95% of the funding isn't coming back to a crashing Texas government. Additionally, for any of those who have obtained a job and have not paid back their debts, then their check needs to be garnished just like someone who owes child support. If that is not an option their tax return should be withheld and those who are habitual felons need not have the opportunity.  As hard as things are for me, I know there is someone who has it worse.  With that being said, teachers are the ones who help mold our society and help prevent a dim cold future. Texas has to wake up and realize how very important education is and that it is a privilege. Also, that budget cuts to public education is not an option especially with a state that is 44^th in the country in education as is.

How Important is Education to Texas?

The biggest question of all right now in Texas is, How Important is Education to Texas?   Evidently education is not very important since Texas has proposed a bill to cut billions of dollars from our schools.  Meaning that there will be fewer teachers and bigger classrooms in a deficit as it is. At this point in time, we as a state are ranked 44^th in the nation without much to look forward to in the future.   Since I am a student of higher public education, this is of major concern to me. Texas could have received money from the government just like other states did but our governor decided against it.  Now the Texas legislature is trying to balance the budget on the backs of those who already were having problems just struggling to make it.  What will happen to us in the future when each generation is not receiving a proper education as were their fore fathers?  Do we really want to be put in that type of situation?  As an accounting clerk for Travis County, that is completely unacceptable for the state to be in such a deficit. They should have been getting audited and had other procedures put in place so that this would not occur.  According to the article that came out Saturday a week ago by Raise Your Hand Texas, we are really at a very unacceptable level and to cut more money is unethical.  How are we to cut funding and be expected to increase our ranking in regards to education?  Texas must stop teaching to just pass the tests. We need to get back to teaching all of the fundamentals as in China and India.