Not Enough Money, But We Can Afford That?

So a few weeks ago, one of the teachers at my school was telling us that we are not aloud to go down to the cliffs because the school is responsible for the students. The Cliffs is this make-out hang-out place, so I've heard. Anyway, she also said that she hired someone to walk around and within the school's perimeter to make sure no one goes down there. So a few kids were a little iffy with this decision but they got over it.

Just recently, something happened to one of the computers. Since we only have about ten monitors and about twenty-four students per advisory, it's important that the computes don't freeze or continuously shut down. So, the teachers were telling us that our school cannot afford to replace the computers. Then they went in a completely different direction saying that since most of the kids don't help with the fund raisers, we don't go on field trips.

In my opinion, the school shouldn't be able to use the funding to get a guard if we can't even afford new supplies for the school. Almost everything at the school is either worn down or damaged from over the years and they won't even replace them. If we can afford a guard then we should be able to afford to replace at least a few of the books and supplies that will help us in school. They should stop talking to us about financial problems and look at what they're spending money on. It's ridiculous. If needed, the student body will help out with fund raisers but they are really out-dated. No one wants some kids coming to their door wanting to sell them something that they will probably never use. What we should have is like a street fair or something like that in the parking lot of the school. We would have more of a chance selling stuff like that than going door to door. Or we could have like a kids day and family and friends could pay like a fee of $3 per child and about 25 cents per game they play. Each kid will have a card and each game that they play, they will get the card stamped. When their whole card is filled out, they could turn it in to one of the teachers and they could get a small prize or something to know to let them know that they helped the school. It's not right how they can spend the funding and the student body is responsible for replacing it. The students aren't factory workers, we are students and we are their to learn, not work to make money so the school can pay the guard, so to speak.

That's all I have to say, so I'm done.