DJ Rivera
Mrs. Borsen
Expository Writing, Period 4
5-19-2011
Final Essay Assignment
Imagine this, you’re with the person of your dreams, and you feel like you want to be with that person forever and ever, and then decide to have sex, then “uh oh!” a baby comes along the way. Things like this happen all around the world and it’s not always necessarily just with the person of your dreams. As of the year 2010, 494,357 teenagers have had kids. (Nationmaster.com) Kids everyday are constantly asking for help with just everyday problems, but now they think that if they were to get daycare centers in high schools, they would either do better in school, or not drop out. I believe that it’s not exactly the schools responsibility to take care of something that is your fault for having in the first place. Schools have their own responsibilities as it is, and one of them doesn’t have to be your own child.
The argument I’m fighting against is whether or not we should have daycare centers in schools or not, and I’m personally not very fond of the idea. Not only is it not the schools fault for you to have a kid and not be able to take care of it on your own, but how on earth do you expect the schools to pay for a daycare as well. Within the next year or so, schools are getting majorly huge budget cuts that can affect just about anyone. With only in California, for the last 2 years they have been cut a total of $17 billion dollars! That’s a lot of money for something that people live to have on a daily basis, an education. There are kids not only in the United States wanting an education, but also in other countries as well. Not everyone gets the loyalty to be able to get a decent education in the high school level or in any school level in general. Also with California, they handed out 23,500 pink slips obviously meaning they have to let them go. But last time I checked, especially in Roosevelt High School, we’re looking to find more teachers and not get rid of them. The only reason that we can’t get more teachers is because of things like budget cuts. If California is getting $17 billion plus budget cuts, just imagine what kind of budget cuts Texas is getting, or even our state, Colorado!
Going along with the budget cuts of all schools around the United States, Daycares aren’t exactly cheap. A daycare provider can cost as little as $4,388 to $14,647 a year! I don’t know about you, but I know what schools could use up to $14,000 on that would much more benefit the schools more than Daycares. We could buy books, better technology, or even better sports equipment. All of these things would greatly benefit schools all around the United States much more than a daycare could. In my eyes, Daycares are for people who had sex irresponsibly and aren’t of age to take care of a kid on their own. I feel it’s very important to be able to take care of your own child; just look at the days in the 80’s, parents did anything to make their kids healthy and to make them happy. The reason daycare providers can be so cheap or so expensive truly varies. But in order to be a legal daycare provider, you must have a license. “Nearly all states, licensing regulations require criminal record checks for all day care staff. This screening requirement protects children from abuse and reduces liability risks, making insurance more available and affordable.” Obviously, a daycare provider without a license is a huge problem according to bls.gov.
When it comes to having a kid of your own, the responsibility of the kid is your own. You chose to have it, and now you have to take care of it yourself, and should expect anything from anyone. I know that when I have problems of my own, the first thing I do is I try on my own, but usually I don’t like anyone to help me at all. People now a day’s always put their own responsibility on other people such as their friends or even their family. I can completely agree that taking care of a baby is a huge responsibility and a lot of hard work. But who was the one that chose to have sex, and in result have a baby in the first place. Things might not always go the way you want them to go, but people make choices in their life, and usually almost always regret them. If we were to put a daycare in the school here at Roosevelt High School, I personally think it would make them a little more irresponsible. Look at it this way, right now they always have to come home to their kid and take care of them and make sure they get what they need to live. Now take that out of the equation and you get a mom who comes and now looks to go to parties because she doesn’t have a huge responsibility to come home to. As you can clearly see, taking the baby out of the hands of the parents can put some major problems out on the table.
When I become a parent, well first of all, I’m going to wait till I’m a decent age to be able to take care of one properly. I want to be able to play with my kid and teach my kids the importance of life. There aren’t always the best role models when it comes to daycare providers. With a story from adequacy.org, is a little boy named Micah who wanted to play with some blocks after the provider had set them out for the kids to come get some. “The daycare provider walked over to Micah, looked disapprovingly at his pile of blocks, and then forcibly took nearly half of them away. She then proceeded to give them to the other children, so that they all had roughly the same amount.” I wouldn’t teach my kid that if you have too much of something, that you have to share with others around you who were too lazy to get them before you. I would teach him what my parents and friends and even teachers have taught me. “The early bird catches the worm.” Not, “The early bird catches all the worms that he can get and then has to share it with other birds so they all have the same amount. This might make me sound maybe like a control freak, but think about it. The whole world is just a giant competition of who can really be the best. They don’t want people to slow down to let other people catch up; people want to do their best in what they do so they can get the most recognition with it.
All this information is clearly important to know when making a decision to make a daycare in all the high schools, but that is mainly for you to take a look at it all and actually see the truth behind it. It makes sense that the schools nearly don’t have enough money with all the budget cuts going on in these next few years, just think about it. $17 billion from California alone, I can’t begin to imagine what other states could be losing just on education. And to along with the budget cuts, once again, the prices of daycare providers aren’t as cheap as you’d hope it to be. They have to be licensed so in order to get a really good one, you must pay them a lot of money just like anyone else who is good at their job. And when you create something, you have the ability to clean it up or make it an even bigger problem, you should put the responsibility with your own child into the hands of the schools, they already have to teach you a numerous amount of things, and I doubt they’d want to have more to do. And based off the story I had told you, obviously all daycare providers aren’t best suited to take care of everyone’s kids the way they might want them to be taken care of. When you want a kid to be the best he or she can be, leave it to the parents to fill in the blanks that the schools can’t even come close to filling in for them.
