Cuts in Government Funding for Education: An Issue Related to Human Dignity and the Common Good

OPINION EDITORIAL 1
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OPINION EDITORIAL 2
In today’s world, the population of children yearning for education is increasing day by day.
Parents do their part of sending the children to school. However, it the duty of the government to
provide the necessary resources to support the child’s learning from primary to the university
level. The citizens pay a lot of taxes to the government, and therefore they expect the
government to support the free education (Mitchell, Palacios and Leachman, 2014).
Consequently, the government has been reducing the amount of money they send to schools
daily. In this task, the solution is going to elaborate on cuts in government funding for education
as an issue related to human dignity and the common good. The problem of funding education is
directly related to my course as Bachler of business administration because now am a student
and in future, I would be a government official.
Human dignity refers to the condition whereby an individual has self-respect and possess the
attribute of integrity. About the topic of cuts in government funding to education, the Catholic
social teaching expects everyone to treat one another as brothers and sisters. You must be
responsible for the resources allocated to fellow human beings. In all countries, the citizens pay
tax for the government to get back services in the society like free education. However, the
people responsible for the funds end up misusing all of it, and the rest remain without services.
These people are not integral, and they lack self-respect attributed by human dignity in the
Catholic teachings (Massaro, 2015). People who have self-esteem knows that the resources do
not belong to themselves but it's for the people. Students need more than classrooms in
education. They need books, qualified teachers, advanced technology to ease learning among
many others. When the government fails to provide the children with funds to purchase books
and other resources, these children come out of school half-baked, and they keep on talking
about insufficient resources they had in school. In some cases, the graduates may fail to uphold