The Importance Of Money In Education

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Every person wants money, especially if making money doesn’t include hard work. Imagine being able to receive money by just a game of chance. The idea of having luck people get from making this money by chance leads to things like gambling and depending on the game itself. The lottery also being a game of opportunity has people relying on it for the prospect and hope of winning substantial money. The lottery is not an ethical or effective way to raise revenues for education because it allows people to gamble, it targets those in challenging situations, and the money produced from it rarely ends up going to things like educational funding and the profits aren’t substantial. Individuals are allowed more opportunities and ways to gamble through…show more content…
On the contrary, many states say the money from their lotteries actually do go to education and senior services (Nelson 31-36). For example, some states use lottery funds for other expenses of education instead of additional funds (Nelson 31-36). So basically the money for the schools additional funding is making up for what needs to be paid for in the first place. In fact, “Last year in Illinois, where all lottery proceeds go to education, lottery earnings accounted for 3 percent of the total $18.61 billion the state spent on education” (Coeyman 14). Consequently, the lotteries supposed large revenues for education is not actually very much money compared to how much money the state spends on education itself. In addition, the lottery revenues for funding things like education are diminished and cut back by how the lottery is promoted and how it is incentivised (Coeyman 14). The amount of revenues proclaimed by the lottery to go to education is actually being lessened by the lottery itself. Overall the revenues going to be received by education are not what is promised by the…show more content…
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