Student Success over Mandated Budget Cuts Budget cuts in America’s public school system have become such an extreme issue that not only are people losing jobs, but well needed programs and school days are being cut too. This paper will lay out the pro and cons of the issues that American schools will be facing by attempting to cut so many well needed programs; which range from transportation, art, music, and sports. However, it’s understood that students are the future and cutting the nations education budget is going to cause our future to suffer. Cutting needed programs in public education will be a way of saving money, but at the expense of what, student’s right to learn. Some consumers will argue the fact of some extracurricular activities being more of a liability than an asset but also still is a prominent way of teaching children. For example, sports, promotes teamwork, and in America’s society teamwork is an everyday tool for jobs. For example when on job application they ask questions like what are your hobbies, interests, sports, groups, teams, or organizations? The answer to this question will show if a person knows how to work as a team or if that person works better alone. Public schools may need to figure out which programs can be cut, or minimized so that it won’t affect the entire future of the country.
School spirit is similar to the way individuals practice their faith, you are either a strong believer or you are not, there is no in-between. It’s like being a part of a big organization or club that you give 100% support to. Having school spirit is taking time to support your school’s values and trusting that its good name represents an individual’s beliefs. Sanford believes that “sports encourage spirit, work ethic, and competition in a highly competitive world, and spirited hard work and competition is an American ethos.” In an American based economy, american’s spend most of their time working than doing anything else. Money has been shown to be the most important factor and reason for people to work. Historically work has been thought of as a job, how to make an original contribution to the world, and in the process provide for your family. Accessing about the concept of work ethic and the various elements that encourage people to work irrespectively of any economic necessity. The moral necessities to work ethics include not only how one feels about their job, career or vocation, but also how one does his/her job or responsibilities. A colleague, Susan Ray is a senior project manager, and has been with the company for 12 years, a model employee for good work ethics. She would complete a project and or other task proficiently, and with a great deal of pride in the quality of her work. To her a good work ethic involves attitude, behavior, respect, communication, and interaction. Work is an obligation and responsibility, so people must take pride in their work regardless of the job. Everyone should work to the best of their ability and contribute to society. Work centrality is one of the important aspects in life beside family, religion, community and leisure. This theme of work ethic emphasizes the importance of doing a job diligently; people need both excellence and a good work ethic to succeed. However, “that same hard work and competitive spirit can also create private sports ventures for youth that will not tax public school academics…benefit the community in terms of jobs, revenue, and community esprit de corp” (Sanford). Certain processes play divisive or disintegrative roles in the social life of individuals or groups, which is called dissociative processes. Conflict, competition and mutual opposition are forms of dissociative processes. Many say that antagonistic or decisive processes also strengthen the process of social solidarity. Human biological, psychological, cultural and social needs inspire them for competition. Just as plants