Mexico Vs Us Essay

Although school is considered to be a universal education to children through a certain system, different countries take on their own way of education their young ones. These differences are due to many different reasons such as culture, government, and location but even when they are similar, the school system differs. For example, Mexico and the United States share a border and both have a republic government, but their way of educating contrasts one another. The most prominent cause of the differences in the school system in these two countries is the amount of money available. Mexico lacks the funds that Americans take for granted daily, and Mexico is a poor country that does not have the money to spend on schools like the United States can. In fact, the author writes, “The United States was… cited as having the poorest outcomes per dollar spent on education” (Norris np). When I interviewed my mom asking her to compare Mexico to the United States because she had attended school and college in Mexico and then transferred over to be a teacher here, she said, “If Mexico had as much money and resources as the U.S., they would surely surpass many countries” (Melendez …show more content…
In “I Know Why the Caged Bird Cannot Read”, Francine Prose argues the books required to be read and taught in American high schools fail to inspire an appreciation for literature when she states, “My own two sons… have read (in public and private schools) Shakespeare, Hawthorne, and Melville. But they’ve also slugged through the manipulative melodramas of Alice Walker and Maya Angelou, through sentimental, middle brow favorites” (Prose 76). Students in Mexico have to read their closest Spanish equivalent books by authors like Miguel de Cervantes, Federico García Lorca, and Don Juan Manuel. Books by these authors were read even when my parents were in school, and even I have to read them for my Spanish V