School Funding Benefits

So many times, especially in small town schools, most of the school's funding goes towards a specific curriculum or activity. A lot of the time, schools give a lot of funding towards the football team, or other various sports that the county is known for. However, giving a majority of the excess funding toward a specific activity may be good for the school and its economy, not all students get an equal opportunity to succeed in life as others. The other students that do not benefit from the highlighted activity that the school funds do not have the opportunity to grow in the area that they want and are limited harshly. Giving funding to multiple programs in your school area helps round out students and gives everyone as good of an opportunity to succeed as the other students. The state and federal government are pushing schools towards No Child Left Behind. In order to truly achieve this, the curriculum is not the only thing that needs to be equal for all students. A lot of colleges and trade schools want their students to have a sort of background in the field that they are pursuing. If the high school puts the majority of its funding into a particular sport, the other students who …show more content…
Colleges are not only looking for good grades and test scores for accepting students. Students with a more rounded background tend to be accepted at a much greater rate than those who have had limited access to experience. Being well rounded in school will not only help you in college, it will help you in the workforce. A teacher of mine has made this clear to a lot of his students. A big reason why he got hired to teach for this school was not because he only had a scholarship, it was because he had experience in theatre. Being a well rounded individual will open more job opportunities for