Carolina Schools - Falling Behind

     http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/23/3130949/greeting-the-new-school-year-in.html

     This article from the newsobserver.com makes clear the problems that have been increasing in North Carolina schools every year. Budget cuts are ever increasing which may seem necessary in the short term, only hinder our students in the longer run. I have been personally connected to many of the issues in our public school system because I have been a student there as well as my mother is a high school English teacher. Every year class sizes have been increasing and the number of teacher positions have been decreasing. Parents are becoming concerned over the quality of education their children are getting and teachers are working longer and longer hours trying to find a way to manage the many students in their classrooms. Currently my mother has 36 kids in a classroom that was meant for closer to 25 students. This is not nearly as bad as what is on the schedule for next semester, she has 76 kids on the roster for her 11th grade English class. What can be done about these every worsening conditions in our schools? I know my mother works tirelessly along with the many other teachers in the school system but it is simply to much for the school system to manage with so few resources. North Carolina is 46th in public school rankings with many teachers leaving the profession because of the poor pay and lack of support. Would you want to go into this field? Why do you think our officials do not see the need to invest in our children? They are the ones that will need to work and bring money into our economy. If they are not educated the public school system will only consider to suffer because there will be even less funding to give to schools. We have to invest in our schools now and stop the positive feedback cycle before it spirals out of control. Where do you think the problem started? Why are North Carolina public schools falling behind while we have some of the top universities in the country here? What can be done to most effectively fix this problem?