Proposal

California’s Proposition 30, lead by Governor Jerry Brown, is designed to raise taxes in order to help fund the public school system in California.  I strongly feel that this measure should be passed.  My motivation for being in favor of this proposition is to save the school system that is already hard to afford for many.  As a California Junior College student, I know how hard it is to get through school already.  Classes are overfilled while many more get cut, and the tuition prices keep raising.  I write to the California voters who need to be aware of the seriousness of our current situation.  

Logos: The budget cuts over the past few years have been detrimental to students and employees of the school system alike.  A greater cut into the budgets would create a situation in which many more students will not be able to go to school.  This will hurt our economy when people don’t get an education and are not able to get jobs.  Raising the taxes only on the very wealthy will only affect a small portion of the population of California.

Ethos: I have lots of experience in the California school system because I have been a student in it for the majority of my life.  I have seen how badly the budget cuts have affected the schools and how many classes have been cut and teachers have gotten let go. 

Pathos: As citizens of California, we need to fight for our public schools and not let them turn into poorly funded government institutions.  If 30 is not passed, we are allowing our youth to have opportunity to be taken from them.  If the schools lose funding, only the wealthy families will afford to send their kids to school.  This will create a very uneven playing field for families with different socioeconomic statuses in a system that already doesn’t offer equal opportunity.  

Proposition 30 needs to be passed to save our schools from becoming more expensive and losing quality.