A Response to a Classmate

Climate change is undeniable with facts like more hurricanes in the last years, the increase of the sea level, and many others. Some countries have decided to reduce greenhouse gases, pollution, while others like Syria are standing out of that. I understood this while reading the blog post of my classmate, Phuong Nguyen, where she argued about climate change. The United States retraction from the Paris climate agreement is actually a big surprise since it is one of the biggest industrial countries in the world. Donald Trump does not believe in global warming, but he believes into cutting the funds that fight against the issue and investing them in job creations. A question I have had since reading my classmate's blog is: "Is it necessary to invest in job creations if the future of the planet is not certain?" The temperature increase in the last four years has been the most drastic one in 22 years according to the World Meteorology Organization. In the past years, we have seen many natural disasters like hurricane Katrina, floods, snow storms,  droughts, and so on. The United States ought to invest in slowing global warming since many hurricanes, snow storms, floods, have been destroying cities, families, homes, and lives.

Invest More in Educaiton

Since I read and commented about my classmate, Mai Okada's work, I've kept thinking about education matters in the United States lately. Personally, I did go to primary, middle, and high school in my country, and we all have a stereotype of the USA's education. Most of the people think that the educational system here is the best, people do not have to worry about paying tuition fees since it is not very expensive, and more importantly, the US government is doing a very good job with the education. I have been here for less than two years, and I would say that people from my country, Burkina Faso, got almost everything wrong.
On one hand, the educational system is the best I have had all my life, and I admire the government for having such a good system. for instance, in my country, you do not get that much chance to talk with your university teacher after the class. If you are not satisfied with that either, you have to go and find yourself a personal tutor. However, in the USA, you can talk with your professor at the office hours, or even email them if you have any questions, and they would be happy to help.
On the hand, I realized that the tuition fees are not that cheap as people think. It is when I got here that I realized some people drop out of college because they can't afford it anymore. Which made me wonder why the tuition fees are so high since the USA is the richest country in the world. I understood later that there are a great number of things in which this country invests more than the education. For example, lately, the president made increase the US military founds because he wants to send many troops at the barrier between US and Mexico. How is possible to invest more in the military than in the education? What the government should be worried about is the education and not the number of troops at that specific barrier. Many believe that education helps to build great leaders of a nation, but if people can't afford education a nation goes nowhere.
The education in the USA is great because of the system they have in place, and that allows some people to keep up even though it is tough some of the time. However, not everyone can afford education since it becomes expensive in college years.