The Proof is in the Pudding

            Governor Corbett has put forward a budget that will eliminate sufficient funds from colleges, high schools, and elementary schools in the state of Pennsylvania. This is tragic towards those who have decided to further there education. They’re being punished for wanting a better life than those living in poverty. In this blog, I will show my evidence and dissect it so people can understand the current situation.

            I have five different forms of evidence that I will assess and show the results of their existence. First piece of evidence is Corbett has previously cut the budget of university’s professors. The tuition for a mass of the college institutions rose five to ten percent. State Senator, Mike Stack, said Corbett proposal was a “slap in the face to the middle class. The average family will continue to dig deeper into the pockets while wealthy corporate interests sit back and watch their bank rolls grow”.  My second batch of evidence is the budget will eliminate 30 million dollars from elementary schools. These schools are the foundation for every citizen in Pennsylvania. If you deprive those schools from getting a good education, this will make it impossible for student to excel in the higher education department. My third bit of evidence ties in with my second one. Corbett has decided to implement the Keystone Exams by the year 2017. By then, it will be required to pass these assessment exams in order to graduate High School. This is a devised trap. If you are cutting the budgets for both elementary and high schools and you’re implementing an assessment exam,  how are the students suppose to pass the exam when their lacking the proper training?  Corbett cuts will also affect those with intellectual gifts. For my forth evidence, I found that he is cutting the aid for accountability block grants that districts use to enhance educational offerings and programs that allows kids to earn college credit while in high school. This harms the gifted individuals from achieving their max potential and also forces them to pay an extra semester of tuition. Since they are not getting the credits that the programs offer, the students will now have to pay thousands of dollars more then they deserve. My fifth set of evidence is that the state grant program will be cut by five percent. This mean that Corbett is taking away the opportunities, raising the tuition, and now taking away the financial aid that some people desperately need to get into school. Sounds like he is trying to make college impossible to stay or get into. From my evidence, I am able to attack Governor Corbett’s budget proposal from many different angles, in which I can show how it will be very hurtful to the public.

            Certain evidence leads us to draw conclusions because we can analyze the good and the bad outcomes. The introduction of the evidence is important because first impressions last the longest. If you display evidence in the wrong or right way, that will enable the audience to developed their own good or bad opinion on the issue. For some people, these budget cuts do not harm their financial foundation. However, there are those who are dependent on government help to excel in this world. Therefore, different audiences will look at this situation from different view points and formulate their own opinions.

            This will be extremely hard for the citizens of Pennsylvania and I hope we can all manage through these terrible circumstances

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/Corbett-Budget-Plan-Draws-Sharp-Criticism-138883284.html

http://keystonestateeducationcoalition.blogspot.com/2012/02/governor-corbetts-budget.html

http://news.yahoo.com/governor-corbetts-education-budget-provides-flexibility-accountability-170407250.html

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/02/gov_tom_corbetts_budget_propos.html