Polish on Prop 30 Not Your Future, Our Future

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Shawn Vogler                                                                                                                        

Instructor Knapp

English 2-76847

14 October 2012

Not Your Future, Our Future

Proposition 30 will be appearing on the upcoming ballot, which will greatly help our schools in California. If voters pass prop 30, around $6 billion in revenue will be made by increasing taxes from 1% to 3% on Californians making over $250,000 per year and couples making over $500,000 per years for seven years. The State sales tax will also increase by .25% for four years. This money will go to help K-12 schools, and higher education along with public safety. Today’s students are tomorrow’s future and they need a proper education; so when you are filling out this upcoming ballot, don’t just think about yourself but as a community and the golden state of California to keep our next generation safe and educated.

Voting Yes on prop 30 helps California get back on track to a bright future by providing schools with the needed funding to ensure the best education and safest streets California can offer. A brain learns how to process words through reading, speaking and spelling by age seven. In elementary school it is important to have teachers who can help any students try to achieve mastery. This is very hard when the state education’s budget dwindles daily. Prop 30 will give money to allow more teachers so students are not crammed like sardines into classrooms. Passing prop 30 will not just help schools, but it will also help keep our state and streets safe with more police, firemen and park rangers.

                                                                                                                                  

If Proposition 30 does not pass there will be an enormous amount of cuts that will take place to both our school systems and to public safety. If prop 30 is shot down, the schools will be cut short by three weeks because of the lack of money. K-12 schools will be cut $5.5 and CSU’s will be cut an astonishing $250 million making it hard to get the education you need. With all of the tuition hikes, students and their families cannot afford tuition at community colleges, UC’s or CSU’s. Before you get a job you need to be educated in school so you know how to accomplish it.  Larry Gordon who writes for the Los Angles Times wrote, “At UC, officials predict a 20% tuition hike, or about $2,400 a year. The Cal State system already boosted tuition 9% this fall and projects an additional 5%, or $150 a semester, if the proposition loses. Community colleges fear big drops in class offerings and student enrollment if Proposition 30 fails”. As a kid, you may have dreamed of becoming a Doctor, Fireman, Police Officer or Veterinarian, but all of these careers are coupled with an education. Imagine how hard it would be if teachers had enormous class sizes you only have two class to choose from because all the other ones were cut, that is what will happen if Proposition doesn't pass.

I have come through all of the K-12 classes and am currently a student in community college with tuition rising every semester. My fellow students and I at Cabrillo College get very frustrated because we are not able to get the right classes that we need. With the budget cuts that have already taken place, there is no money to hire any new teachers to teach. If prop 30 doesn’t pass Cabrillo College will have one in every thirteen classes cut. By cutting classes our college loses space for approximately 780 full-time students. You may not think that something like ‘paper’ would be needed so badly, but my 12^th grade calculus teacher would dig through every recycling can to find paper with a blank side that she could print on. She was not going to have us (her students) not receive a good education because my high school did not have enough money to give paper to the teachers. Mrs. Porrier was an amazing teacher, and I learned so much in that class because every day we had worksheets on bunches of different colored pieces of paper from the recycling. This is sadly, becoming the norm for California schools; however, it will be changed if voters pass proposition 30.

Why would I want to vote for this because it makes the folks making over $250,000 per year pay extra taxes  on their hard earned money, and why should they be taxed more to pay for other peoples kids? Why should a customer have to pay extra sales tax if they don’t even go to school? To some this may sound like common sense and will not vote to pass prop 30, but I want you to think not just about you and your future but California’s future. Our jobs in technology and engineering are taking off and not stopping and right out of high school no one has what it takes to move right into a job like that; in essence, we need to educate tomorrows leaders so they can continue to propel California’s amazingly diverse job opportunities. 

With all of this important talk about funding education, we tend to forget that this proposition also funs police, Cal fire and the Department of Fish and Game. These California state jobs are very important because they help keep our lives and livelihoods safe. I know for a fact that they help all of us and save our lives from time to time. I am a commercial fisherman and the Department of Fish and Game help to regulate the ocean and make sure people are not abusing it by taking over the quota or over limits. We all need to vote yes to pass proposition 30 and keep these state jobs alive to make or future brighter

The billions dollars being wagered to all the California voters will either come from taxpayers our children’s education to better or worsen our future. I hope that you have the decency to not just think about yourself and vote yes on prop 30. Students haven’t done anything to deserve this punishment! If you do vote no, know this: you are hurting everyone else’s future because we are not preparing today's youth for tomorrow’s future.

Works Cited

Fensterwald, John. "Brown Struggling to Sell Prop 30 to Wary Voters." EdSource. N.p., 23 Aug.  2012. Web. 12 Sept. 2012. <http://www.edsource.org/today/2012/brown-struggling-to-sell-
  prop-30-to-wary-voters/19340>.

Gordon, Larry. "Prop. 30 Inspires Voter Registration Drives Aimed at Students." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2012. Web. 2 Oct. 2012. <http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-students-vote-20121014,0,1522296.story>.

"Yes on Prop 30 -- Take a Stand for Schools and Local Public Safety." California Labor Federation. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2012. <http://www.calaborfed.org/index.php/site/page/1715>.

Final Draft- Not Your Future, Our Future

Shawn Vogler

Instructor Knapp

English 2-76847

14 October 2012

Not Your Future, Our Future

Proposition 30 will be appearing on the upcoming ballot, which will greatly help our schools in California. If voters pass prop 30, around $6 billion in revenue will be made by increasing taxes from 1% to 3% on Californians making over $250,000 per year and couples making over $500,000 per years for seven years. The State sales tax will also increase by .25% for four years. This money will go to help K-12 schools, and higher education along with public safety. Today’s students are tomorrow’s future and they need a proper education; so when you are filling out this upcoming ballot, don’t just think about yourself but as a community and the golden state of California to keep our next generation safe and educated.

Voting Yes on prop 30 helps California get back on track to a bright future by providing schools with the needed funding to ensure the best education and safest streets California can offer. A brain learns how to process words through reading, speaking and spelling by age seven. In elementary school it is important to have teachers who can help any students try to achieve mastery. This is very hard when the state education’s budget dwindles daily. Prop 30 will give money to allow more teachers so students are not crammed like sardines into classrooms. Passing prop 30 will not just help schools, but it will also help keep our state and streets safe with more police, firemen and park rangers.

If Proposition 30 does not pass there will be an enormous amount of cuts that will take place to both our school systems and to public safety. If prop 30 is shot down, the schools will be cut short by three weeks because of the lack of money. K-12 schools will be cut $5.5 and CSU’s will be cut an astonishing $250 million making it hard to get the education you need. With all of the tuition hikes, students and their families cannot afford tuition- even at community colleges, UC’s and CSU’s. Before you get a job you need to be educated in school so you know how to accomplish it.  Larry Gordon who writes for the Los Angles Times wrote, “At UC, officials predict a 20% tuition hike, or about $2,400 a year. The Cal State system already boosted tuition 9% this fall and projects an additional 5%, or $150 a semester, if the proposition loses. Community colleges fear big drops in class offerings and student enrollment if Proposition 30 fails”. As a kid, you may have dreamed of becoming a Doctor, Fireman, Police Officer or Veterinarian, but all of these careers are coupled with an education. Imagine how hard it would be if teachers had enormous class sizes you only have two class to choose from because all the other ones were cut, that is what will happen if Proposition doesn't pass.

I have come through all of the K-12 classes and am currently a student in community college with tuition rising every semester. My fellow students and I at Cabrillo College get very frustrated because we are not able to get the right classes that we need. With the budget cuts that have already taken place, there is no money to hire any new teachers to teach. If prop 30 doesn’t pass Cabrillo College will have one in every thirteen classes cut. By cutting classes our college loses space for approximately 780 full-time students. You may not think that something like ‘paper’ would be needed so badly, but my 12^th grade calculus teacher would dig through every recycling can to find paper with a blank side that she could print on. She was not going to have us (her students) not receive a good education because my high school did not have enough money to give paper to the teachers. Mrs. Porrier was an amazing teacher, and I learned so much in that class because every day we had worksheets on bunches of different colored pieces of paper from the recycling. This is sadly, becoming the norm for California schools; however, it will be changed if voters pass proposition 30.

Why would I want to vote for this because the folks making over $250,000 per year worked hard for their money, and why should they be taxed more to pay for other peoples kids? Why should a customer have to pay extra sales tax if they don’t even go to school? To some this may sound like common sense and will not vote to pass prop 30, but I want you to think not just about you and your future but California’s future. Our jobs in technology and engineering are taking off and not stopping and right out of high school no one has what it takes to move right into a job like that; in essence, we need to educate tomorrows leaders so they can continue to propel California’s amazingly diverse job opportunities. 

With all of this important talk about funding education, we tend to forget that this proposition also funs police, Cal fire and the Department of Fish and Game. These California state jobs are very important because they help keep our lives and livelihoods safe. I know for a fact that they help all of us and save our lives from time to time. I am a commercial fisherman and the Department of Fish and Game help to regulate the ocean and make sure people are not abusing it by taking over the quota or over limits. We all need to vote yes to pass proposition 30 and keep these state jobs alive to make or future brighter

The billions dollars being wagered to all the California voters will either come from taxpayers our children’s education to better or worsen our future. I hope that you have the decency to not just think about yourself and vote yes on prop 30. Students haven’t done anything to deserve this punishment! If you do vote no, know this: you are hurting everyone else’s future because we are not preparing todays youth for tomorrow’s future.

Works Cited

Fensterwald, John. "Brown Struggling to Sell Prop 30 to Wary Voters." EdSource. N.p., 23 Aug.  2012. Web. 12 Sept. 2012. <http://www.edsource.org/today/2012/brown-struggling-to-sell-
  prop-30-to-wary-voters/19340>.

Gordon, Larry. "Prop. 30 Inspires Voter Registration Drives Aimed at Students." Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2012. Web. 2 Oct. 2012. <http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-students-vote-20121014,0,1522296.story>.

"Yes on Prop 30 -- Take a Stand for Schools and Local Public Safety." California Labor Federation. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2012. <http://www.calaborfed.org/index.php/site/page/1715>.

Rough Draft: Prop 30

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Shawn Vogler

Instructor Knapp

English 2-76847

07 October 2012

Not Your Future, Our Future

Proposition 30 will be appearing on the upcoming ballot, which will greatly help our schools in California. If voters pass prop 30, around $6 billion will be harvested from taxpayers making over $250,000 per year for seven years. The State sales tax will also increase by .25% for four years. This money will go to help K-12 schools, higher education along with public safety. Today’s students are tomorrow’s future and they need a proper education; so when you are filing out this upcoming ballot, don’t just think about yourself and your money but as a community and the golden state of California.

Voting Yes on prop 30 helps California get back on track to a bright future by providing schools with the needed funding to ensure the best education and safest streets California can offer. A brain learns how to process words through reading, speaking and spelling by age seven. In elementary school it is important to have teachers who can help any students try to achieve mastery. This is very hard when the state education’s budget dwindles daily. Prop 30 will give money for more teachers so classes so students are not crammed into them like sardines. Passing prop 30 will not just help schools, but it will also help keep our streets and neighborhoods safe with more cops patrolling.

If Proposition 30 does not pass there will be even more copious amount of cuts that will take place. As you know state employees like park rangers have a certain amount of furlough days because of the tight budget. If prop 30 is shot down then the schools will be cut short by three weeks because of the lack of money. The $6 billion that will be cut from schools making education harder because there will be devastating to everyone so think of California as your family and vote yes on 30.

 How would you feel if you could not go to work?  You would eventually get fed up with it. This is how students feel. With all of the tuition hikes, students and their families cannot afford tuition- even at community colleges. California’s schooling gets people ready for the working world. The long chain of school and work are all intertwined and crucially follow one another and if one step is done poorly, you can crash.  As a kid, you may have dreamed of becoming a Doctor, Fireman, Police Officer or Veterinarian; but what do all of these professions have in common? Lots of Education. To become a Doctor there is many years of schooling but imagine how hard it would be if teachers had enormous class sizes you only have two class to choose from because all the other ones were cut, that is what will happen if Proposition doesn't pass.

I have come through all of the K-12 classes and am currently a student in community college with tuition rising every semester. My fellow students and I deal with the harsh reality of not getting the right classes that we need because they have been cut and there is no money to hire any more teachers to teach it.  Kids and students get to see al of the administrators, teachers, custodians and other staff members get terminated from insufficient funds. You may not think that something like ‘paper’ would be needed so badly but my 12^th grade calculus teacher would dig through every recycling can to find paper with a blank side that she could print on. She was not going to have us (her students) not receive a good education because my high school did not have enough money to give paper to the teachers. Mrs. Porrier was an amazing teacher and I learned so much in that class because every day we had worksheets on bunches of different colored pieces of paper from the recycling. This is sadly becoming the norm in schooling in California; however, it will be changed if voters vote to pass proposition 30.

Public safety is an underestimated part of our society because no one sees the police cars patrolling your neighborhood at midnight or rushing to a house after they call 911. Some people don’t like the police because they take minor amounts of cannabis or come to your house party and kick out all of your friends, but they are only doing it to keep us safe. I am very appreciative of our public safety and it would be scary to have police start getting laid off because the state has no money to pay them. The $6 billion will not be going to miss use, you can think of it as disaster money to help rebuild a devastated town. The money will be going to keep you, your neighbors and our state safer.

            Why would I want to vote for this because the folks making over $250,000 per year worked hard for their money and why should they be taxed more to pay for other peoples kids? Why should a customer have to pay extra sales tax if they don’t even go to school? To some this may sound like common sense and will not vote to pass prop 30, but I want you to think not just about you and your future but California’s future. Our jobs in technology and engineering are taking off and not stopping and right out of high school no one has what it takes to move right into a job like that; in essence, we need to educate tomorrows leaders so they can continue to propel California’s amazingly diverse job opportunities. 

            The $6 billion dollars getting waved in the air in the faces of all the voters will either come from taxpayers or children’s education to better our future. I hope that you have the decency to not just think about yourself and vote yes on prop 30. Students haven’t done anything to deserve this punishment! If you do vote no, know this: you are hurting everyone else’s future because we are not preparing todays youth for tomorrow’s future.

Proposal

      Proposition 30 is going to be appearing on the upcoming ballot, which will greatly help our schools in California. If voters pass Proposition 30, around $6 billion will be brought in through raising taxes on Californians who make over $250,000 per year for seven years. State sales tax will increase by .25% for four years. All of the money will help our schools get back on track and can give children the education they deserve without having to worry about printer paper.

 Evidence
     Here is something for the undecided voters, busy voters and opposing voters to think about: when a child is around the age of 5-7 years old, development of children's brains are able to start nailing down reading and writing. With all of the full classes, lack of teachers resulting in overly full classes not allowing students the utmost attention, they could not learn what they need. Kids need to learn at the proper time because they are our future.

Writer's Strategy
Logos
     Children learn to read, write and spell in K-3rd grade; they can not wait for funding, they need to learn then and there. When you are a child, your brain is metaphorically referred to a sponge because it is able to absorb so many skills you end up using your whole life. If Proposition 30 does not pass, the near $6 billion will be cut from schools so children will be crammed into classes with minimal help from the teachers and not have the necessary learning tools like textbooks. in essence, this time of peak learning potential will pass in the blink of all of our eyes. Our future Leaders (today's children) might not get a good education: what is our world coming to? Vote YES on 30.
Ethos
    Currently as a college student and also passing all K-12 classes, I have seen first hand how budget cuts hurt schools. People in school don't realize students see how many things are jeopardized when funding is cut; teachers, administrates, and campus staff can lose their jobs, along with cutting apart teaching material.
Pathos
     As a kid, you may have dreamed of becoming a Doctor, Fireman, Police Officer or Veterinarian; but what do all of these professions have in common? Lots of Education. To become a Doctor there is many years of schooling but imagine how hard it would be if teachers had enormous class sizes you only have two class choices because all the other ones were cut, that is what will happen if Proposition doesn't pass.
Reader Effect
Logos
    I hope by the example that I gave, people will think about not just themselves and them having to pay an extra tax. When you think about it, kids in K-12 are not the ones even voting, and they do not deserve harsh cuts to their education.
Ethos
    Using credibility I hope weary or opposing voters might read this and realize the cuts are noticed by everyone walking around campus.
Pathos
    Using the emotional appeal I hope that voters will find a soft spot in their hearts and think of the innocent children affected by all that is going on. Vote YES on Proposition 30 if you are an ethical person and want a great future with educated leaders.

Annotated Bibliography

Fensterwald, John. "Brown Struggling to Sell Prop 30 to Wary Voters." EdSource. N.p., 23 Aug. 
      2012. Web. 12 Sept. 2012. <http://www.edsource.org/today/2012/brown-struggling-to-sell-
      prop-30-to-wary-voters/19340>.

      In the article Brown Struggling to Sell Prop 30 to Wary Voters by John Fensterwald, there are many facts that give you a real sense of what proposition 30 is all about. A yes on Proposition 30 will take away over $6 billion in deadly cuts against our school systems. Fensterwald gives a view from the middle and tells you what will happen if the bill passes or not. With the yes vote the schools will be saved from the billion dollar cuts and instead will raise taxes. Fensterwald states that, "...would raise an average of $6 billion per year by raising the sales tax a quarter cent for four years and increasing the income tax for seven years on those earning more than $250,000 per year." (Fensterwald). John Fewnsterwald has a lot of credibility because of his involvement in the school systems and has written many respectable articles. "John wrote editorials for the Mercury News in San Jose, with a focus on education. He worked as a reporter, news editor and opinion editor for three newspapers..."(http://www.edsource.org/today/author/john). John Fensterwald has a great amount of knowledge in the educational systems and wrote a great article on Proposition 30.

"Yes on Prop 30 -- Take a Stand for Schools and Local Public Safety." California Labor Federation.
        N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Sept. 2012. <http://www.calaborfed.org/index.php/site/page/1715>.

        The article Yes on Prop 30 -- Take a Stand for Schools and Local Public Safety on the California Labor Federation's website is an opinion piece that supports Proposition 30. Prop 30 intends to stop cuts and actually give money back to schools and advance learning and not cut school days due to teacher furloughs. "YES on 30" is the slogan for this proposition and if it is passed it will not only help fight California's deficit, but will create more jobs. Since all of the cuts in the education and security forces, many jobs have resulted in pink slips and lay offs. Bringing back teachers, librarians, school administrators, cops, firefighters and many more jobs can arise from the passing of this proposition. I think that the pros of prop 30 drastically out weigh the cons. I know I would pay a little bit extra in my taxes to help children in the K-12 schooling systems along with college students because it is scientifically proven that people learn best in the first five years of their lives and if classrooms are overfilled without proper resources where is our next generation heading? This website show ethos because of the fact that it is titled California Labor Federation, you know that the columnists and editors of this site do not allow false statements on it. In library 10 we learned that websites ending in (.org) stand for organizations which have credible information that are good to use in research. This site is good for supporting facts on proposition 30: "YES on 30"

RR#1

       In Against School by John Taylor Gatto, published in 2003, you get a good look at how the American school system has its flaws. Gatto was a school instructor for 30 years who could read the boredom on everyone's faces. He says both students and teachers are equally bored because of the repetitive material taught  in the K-12 school systems. Gatto gives examples of people who never even attended school and still accomplished great things. After being terminated and losing his teaching license, he started to make it clear to parents how boring their children's days actually were.
     
       In question number 3, I agree that in part that we do not need school but I also think that we do need it. I think that homeschooling is great for students in K-12 because they get the chance to learn without so much unneeded pressure. When a child is home schooled, they can learn the same concepts at their own speed and spaced out with spaces to relax and get your mind off math and writing. The fact that in public school, you are stuck in class for about five hours a day and five days a week; anyone I don't care who you are would be sick of it after twelve years. Home school is good because they have more time for sports and in teen years they can start exploring career options. Stress is a major part of all schooling, there are so many deadlines and when you are taking a lot of classes you always something to work on and turn in. On the other hand I think that the college system is great because of the freedom you have to choose your classes and the time that they start. You are not forced to take one certain class in a six hour time frame like in high school. The big difference between K-12 and college is that you schedule you class around your life ant make times that suite your learning style, like homeschooling.

       I have seen firsthand along with many other students how K-12 instructors are usually as bored as their students. Throughout Gatto's article, he uses all three of Aristotle's appeals but the one that he uses most effectively is his Ethos. Ethos is very important because it shows that the witter is credible and has experience in the topic that he or she is writing about. Gatto says, "Boredom is the common condition of school teachers, and anyone who has spent time in a teachers' lounge can vouch for the low energy" (153). Gatto uses his credibility of being a school teacher for 30 years to give use truthful examples and he hopes to let us all know so we can hopefully start to change it. I have gone through twelve years of public school seeing how most instructors are being forced to teach certain material and not deviate from it; this in turn bores students to death and makes them start to hate school.

Prop 30

http://www.edsource.org/today/2012/brown-struggling-to-sell-prop-30-to-wary-voters/19340