Thesis-driven Essay Paper III - Outline

     The educational system is a pathway to a students education, which is the importance of an individual being able to follow his or her dreams. Lately, one thing leads to another from the Country wide budget cuts, and we watch this disaster continue to spiral out of control. The public school systems self worth declines, and just like a domino effect, teachers are being laid off; classrooms are becoming overcrowded; teachers are overworked; disruptive starts with classroom curriculum; and frustrations mount between teachers, students, parents.

•      It is no hidden secret, the United States public school system is struggling to stay afloat. Major budget cuts occur and teachers continue to be laid off. This all leads to the teacher / student ratio problems and the classrooms become overcrowed. Teachers can not provide the one on one time with students, especially those who need that little extra push.

The effects on:
1. Teacher layoffs
2. Teachers providing a proper education to an overcrowded class
3. How having a overcrowded classroom effects the other students

•      Teachers already have very limited time in each subject with a normal class schedule. Now what was once two teachers jobs, is now the duties for a single teacher. Teachers eventually become overworked. 

Time & how it effects
1. Students
2. Overworks the Teachers
3. How the Parents end up picking up the slack of an overworked teacher.

•      A students normal class routine consists of reading, English, math, history, science, music and/or gym. Sometimes there may be a student (s) that struggles grasping a certain subject. The student (s) are then pulled out of the classroom during normal class curriculum and being placed in a LAP program. Then the disruption begins.

Special Education and the disruptions
1. Students missed out on subjects to attend LAP classes
2. Teachers

•  Teachers start becoming frustrated from being overworked and having class disruption then leads to the students, teachers and parents frustrated from the lack of the class receiving a proper education.

Frustrations of
1. Teacher
2. Students
3. Parents