Movie Analysis: This School's Gone Down Hill

By viewing On the Way to School and reading “This School’s Gone Down Hill,” it has been made clear that education is both a right and a privilege. Education is a right in that every person deserves and every person should have the means necessary to make their way to school and be successful in their educational career. As the children in the movie On the Way to School experienced, some people have to travel hours to school every day or week because they want an education. On the contrary, education is a privilege, especially higher education, because it is possible to be successful without an official education. The presumption can be made that the children in the movies parents did not attend school, yet lived their lives and were able to have children and find ways to send their children to school.
In reference to the article, education is a right because students, no matter their race, should be given the same opportunities for success. However, people of different races are given more privilege in our current society. For example, an African American, Native American, or Hispanic American will get more scholarships to a university solely based on his/her race.
In my experience, I have taken my education as a privilege because I have never had to worry …show more content…
I went to a school in North County in Florissant, Missouri. My family moved to St. Peters, Missouri to be closer to our family, but the school we had attended has come to barely exist. Enrollment decreases so greatly that my previous school and an additional school had to join together in order to keep enrollment high enough to keep the doors open. This is unfortunate for the families who still live there because the amount of schools are decreasing so drives are getting longer. I wish I could help those families as the schools in my current hometown are growing year by year and having to turn students