There are many things wrong with our country, our resource management, our priorities as a nation, our economy, our national debt, the wars we are fighting and why we are fighting them, how we are fighting them… the list goes on and on, let us not make how we fund our education system, one of them. All if not most states prioritize education as one of their top priorities, “Public school funding is the largest program in the state budget, receiving more than 40 percent of the state's General Fund resources” (CA dept. of Education). So how much could the lotteries add to the current funding? The lotteries, being skew as they are, if we allow them to cover up this by plastering that they support a good cause, it will only spell disaster for everyone else involved in the regime, it is an entirely exploitative and ineffective way to …show more content…
support local schooling systems. First off the exploitation of the business begins with how it is structured.
People buy tickets and the proceeds go into a pool, that is a relatively set amount. When a ticket has the matching numbers to win, the lotto companie pays out the amount designated to the owner of the ticket. Then the unforgiving rain of taxes and deductions begins, First the government takes its share then the state takes its cut, then it depends on how the person wishes to receive the money that is left, if the winner decides to take a lump sum, Jared Walczak, a senior policy analyst, claims that so called winner is looking they are looking at around $506 million (Walczak). That is not a small amount, until it is taken into consideration that that would be the money received with an initial payout of $1.8 Billion. That is at around one-third of what was promised. The winner is also looking at a really fun time with the IRS. So then on top of this, before the IRS, there would be even more taken out of this already ransacked amount that the winner was to initially receive to support the local schools, the winner is looking at their jackpot shrinking
exponentially. One of the main problems with the lottery is how it operates, for example reasons there will be small numbers comparative to the scale that it is currently operating on. There is a raffle for $100, and tickets to enter are just $2, now if there are even just 50 people to enter the raffle, the person owning the raffle has already made their money back, any more and the owner has two options, put the excess in their pocket or put the extra money into the next pool to attract more people. They can also do a bit of both, place an amount into the pool and pocket the rest. The second and third, but not as quick, would lead to more people entering, that leads to more excess, that can be placed in the next pool and so on and so forth. It is an extremely legal way to make money quick, as long as people are willing to keep going in and paying 2-5$ every week for a few months and they would have spent more money than 100 $ jackpot would give them. “Lotteries just extract money from the local community” (William) and that is the only thing that they are good at doing. Most people tend to believe that a small little wager here and there is not that bad, but this is far from the truth. It is not just the ones who play the lotteries regularly affected, although they are affected most directly, the entire state feels the repercussions as well. If we were to rely on the lotteries to pay for education, at first that does not sound like a bad idea, but look at who is supporting those lotteries. “Eighty-two percent of lottery bets are made by just 20 percent of players - and this group is disproportionately poor, black, and uneducated”(Nelson), the people that need a large sum of money. This is like operating on the financial system of what 17th century france was, the poor supporting the rich. Even if the common demographic of the lotteries changed, it wouldn’t help much, if at all. “The lottery contributed $691.2 million to… schools… about 8.4 percent of a $7.9 billion public education budget” (Davis). The lotteries are not meant to fund others. They are not meant to fill the coffers of the people that need the jackpot. They are designed to drain the pockets of the people who need the money most. Allowing them to say they are doing a good thing will only leading to more people falling into this trap, draining their pockets week after week, helping nobody good. There are many problems in the United States of america, they need to be solved, not substituted for a bigger problem. Some may continue to believe the lotteries are a moral business, that is fine. Look at the facts, it is extremely an inefficient way to fund others than lottery companie. Simply siphoning money from lottery winnings won't solve anything.
Has the lottery helped education as promised? There has been evidence in the Bible and ancient Rome texts that lotteries can be traced all the way back to Europe in the 15th century (Willmann 1). After that the lotteries made their way across the Atlantic from England to the United States.The first American lottery was established in Puerto Rico in 1934. This was followed by the New Hampshire lottery in 1964.The entire history of the lottery includes the debate over whether or not it is ethical.Lotteries are not only unethical but also ineffective ways to raise state revenues for education.
...back it up with substantial evidence. Readers may question her reliability because of her to lack of evidence and because most of the evidence she does have she doesn’t tell us where her information came from. While she has briefly told her readers about some of the negative effects of state-run lotteries, like teaching people that luck is better than hard work, she doesn’t show us that they are negative with evidence. She also didn’t write about any positive outcomes that may come from getting rid of lotteries, although she does show us some negative ones, like less funding for schools and the possibility of the government having to raise taxes. I learned more about how much it supports education than how much it negatively effects us as American's. After reading this essay I wonder if the benefits of state-run lotteries are greater than they first appeared to me.
Prior to reading about this study I had always thought that richer people played the lottery much more than those with less money. I always just assumed that because the rich had a lot of money that they just played for the heck of it and could afford to spend hundreds of dollars on purchasing tickets. But after the conclusion of their experiment proved otherwise I was pretty shocked., and after reading why it was that poorer people actually spent more on tickets it made so much more sense and I was able to see exactly why that was.
When most people play the lottery today, they think about having wealth. Generally, people who win are happy about it whether they win one dollar or a million. The lottery in our society has grown to support education and it is often worth several million dollars. Usually, the winner of the lottery gains a lot of recognition for the money they win. But what would happen if there was a small town where people held a yearly lottery in which the “winner” was the member of the town who was not sacrificed? This question is answered in Shirley Jackson’s short story, “The Lottery.” In reading this story, and reading literary criticism about the story, there were many symbols and much symbolism in this story.
“the Official California Lottery Financial Report, of the total $59.25 billion the lottery took in from people buying tickets, about $30.54 billion was given back in prizes”(Chen, Yang, & Chen, 2010). When the Lottery is more
Winning the lottery is a dream most people have; it is magical thinking, believing that you, the ticket buyer will be the one defying all the odds. The only ones, from the hedonistic utilitarian standpoint whosehappiness will increase are those who actually win the lottery, a very small number from among all the players. The hedonistic utilitarian standpoint is not ethically recommendable because the lottery is only selling the dream of winning it while filling the state coffers with people’s hard earned money. (Brusseau, J. 2012)
To respond to the statement made by Kozol regarding the nature of public school in America, one must consider the question of what exactly education is for in this country; what is it's purpose. I believe that education is used to produce what Kozol refers to as "good citizens:" "defeated, unprovocative" people that will fill the necessary jobs, pay the necessary taxes, and perform all the other duties put forth by the government such as voting and jury duty. This is why the situation in America's public schools has not changed since the time Kozol wrote The Night Is Dark..., and why things will probably not change without a revolution within the public school system.
“The Lottery” is a story written by Shirley Jackson. By looking at the title you may think about money prize. In this story takes the readers expectation to another level. By the two words of the title there is no way the reader did not get hook to reading this story. In “The Lottery” Shirley Jackson, uses symbolism, irony, and imagery.
America’s school system and student population remains segregated, by race and class. The inequalities that exist in schools today result from more than just poorly managed schools; they reflect the racial and socioeconomic inequities of society as a whole. Most of the problems of schools boil down to either racism in and outside the school or financial disparity between wealthy and poor school districts. Because schools receive funding through local property taxes, low-income communities start at an economic disadvantage. Less funding means fewer resources, lower quality instruction and curricula, and little to no community involvement. Even when low-income schools manage to find adequate funding, the money doesn’t solve all the school’s problems. Most important, money cannot influence student, parent, teacher, and administrator perceptions of class and race. Nor can money improve test scores and make education relevant and practical in the lives of minority students.
Public School Choice is an easy program to understand and it contains many advantages but also many disadvantages. Public School Choice is when parents can elect to send their children out of a school that has not made adequate yearly progress for two consecutive years into a school that has made progress. (McClure, 2002) If there are no available schools within the original school district, then a family can choose to send their children to another district. This only happens when the other schools in the original district are all labeled as ‘underachieving schools’ and have not made the adequate yearly progress. (McClure, 2002)
In America, the idea of equality between people is important, it is in fact, written into the Constitution. However, for years the American educational system has operated in a completely inequitable manner due, in part, to the way that schools are funded, mostly through local or property taxes. The differences between schools in wealthy neighborhoods and those in poor neighborhoods are, many times, reminiscent of the differences between white schools and black schools before the end of segregation. While there is a desperate need to fix this broken system, there has been little progress. The issue is so divisive and the problem so big and entrenched in American laws, many politicians refuse to even attempt to come up with a solution. The answer lies with the federal government. To make American public schools equitable the federal government needs to step up its role in funding and administering the schools.
A major problem with public school is lack of funding, and it seems as if nobody follows the money once it gets to the school. The students and staff both suffer from the lack of money in schools. I attended a really poor middle school named Bishop-Spaugh Middle School. In middle school, students were almost never assigned any homework because students didn’t have any books. Teachers at this school also were compelled to buy many essential items such as paper, markers, and erasers because the school didn’t have enough money to provide the supplies to them. Money inside of schools isn’t being handled correctly. In the movie The Cartel, $1 billion was given to a construction company to build and improve schools. However, a couple of years passed and the company never built a single structure and the money was gone. Nobody knew where the money disappeared to (Ventures). The same people in charge when the money disappeared stayed in charge for a very long time. Because of the lack of money, schools we...
“The Lottery” was quite disturbing to read. It is an very unusual story that has an ending that will have you baffled. You will want to reread certain parts to see if there is anything thing that you could have missed. The title of the short story is also misleading. In most cases the lottery is a good thing. People don’t win punishment and lotteries don’t hurt them. But in this story it does just that. The author did a great job of telling how anyone and everyone can follow tradition blindly. It is dangerous not to have a mind of your own and to just follow the crowd even if you don’t understand on agree on why something is happening.
From the time the Europeans first landed on the Atlantic shore, lotteries have been a part of the American society. According to Will Spink, most states are currently operating a state lottery despite its bleak history in the U.S. (Spink 1). Since 1983, North Carolina has introduced lottery bills in the legislature every year (NC Christian 15). North Carolina Governor, Mike Easley, favors a lottery for increasing revenues for education (Analysis 2). However lucrative state lotteries appear on the surface, they create even more moral and financial difficulties for citizens, and this should encourage states to look at other means of resources instead of legalized gambling.
It 's true that lottery money does go to into a special fund for education. But when it does, tax dollars get pulled out of education and spent elsewhere, in the end, the schools are no better off. In reality, most of the money from lottery revenues end up covering the cost of running a lottery. And no matter how much state lotteries try to convinced us that they do benefit schools, it is important to know that lottery revenues hardly make a difference in education and public