Class should be free. Education is no longer a luxury for those with more disposable income than others, and should be offered to every student, as it is fair, but, unfortunately why is this not so?

Public schools across the country charge and fine students for classes, tests, and “senior fees”. Fees should be given to overdue library books, not individuals who come to better their lives. New computers, a new gym and iPads are purchased, but still students must pay a fee to even graduate. This is a system of inequality and selected uses of funding on non essential “tools.”

If students must scramble for funds to earn a diploma, why is money being spent on everything but the student? Of all the things that have been capitalized and monopolized, the education of the American youth should be protected.Government subsidies, taxes and tax breaks for school districts cover the basics of an education, and the burden of funding should not fall on the students’ families, many of which, in this area, are economically disadvantaged.

The concept of advanced placement courses and career training classes being a cost to the student is not helping those who most need it. Poor and economically disadvantaged students are stopped from the start by the costs alone. How can they better their situation?

The American dream is that you as an individual can lift yourself from nothing, into something. In today’s society the key to getting ahead is education, and, unfortunately, that key is getting more and more expensive as time goes by.