Solomon Ortiz once said that “Education is the key to success in life, and teachers make a lasting impact in the lives of their students” (“16 Famous Quotes…”). Having a good education for a child and will prepare them for the future. This important necessity illustrates the value of great teachers. If this education was to be rudimentary, then this student would suffer the consequences. Not only would the student be afflicted, but it would have a trickledown effect on the family and community. This is what happens during school strikes. While teachers are striking, the people involved are feeling the ramifications. With striking permitted in states, it is causing stress and tension between the community …show more content…
Students that are directly affected by a school strike do not receive the best education and therefore are not prepared for the upcoming year. Students are in school to be educated. This is to gain knowledge that will advance them from grade to grade and prepare them for the future they desire. Without the knowledge of learning addition in kindergarten, it would be impossible to determine an integral in high school. When schools go on strike the students education is the first to feel the effects. This article says that many seniors will receive an inferior education heading off to college and eleventh graders are scared they will not be able to increase their test scores to send to colleges (“School’s Out”). This illustrates that the students, especially in the higher grades of high school, are moving on to their next step of schooling ill prepared. These students who have taken …show more content…
When students are in school, their parent or guardian is normally at work earning money to support their family. While during the summer when kids are out of school, most parents either find a babysitter to watch their children or put them in a daycare center if unable to watch them themselves. Since this is necessary in the summer, parents save up to ensure that their kids are attended to. When a school strike starts this is not that case. David Roberts explains that “... finding child care at the last moment was challenging--and he says he's aware that other families are having problems affording it” (Sawchuk). While there is normally some warning that a strike might occur in a district, it is not enough time for families to gather up the money to send their kid to a place where they can be watched. This is even more difficult if the strike happens in a community with low-income families. This makes the situation worse and produces obscene stress on the families. Especially with low-income families, their students are already receiving education not equivalent to other higher class people. Low-income students already have an education gap between them and their more advantaged peers so when schooling stops for the low-income families this rises the gap making it even harder for the students to achieve the goals they desire (Akers and