A big white house with a tire swing sits on top of a hill where little kids run and play. Inside there is a warm feeling and laughter fills the house as a family sits around a table and eats dinner together.
Years pass and this home is demolished and replaced with a square-based house with large windows. A cold grey aura surrounds the building. Inside a child sits on their phone in silence, scrolling for hours through videos that serve no purpose to the kid’s life.
Modernization is taking over every square inch of the world we live in, and it seems that every city is becoming increasingly unable to avoid these “upgrades.”
Small towns turn into large cities with highways and traffic. Small restaurants are forced to shut down and turn into fast-food chains in order to feed the growing number of mouths residing within the city.
This seems easier, but for many people who live in the town, modernization is one of the most dreadful and dehumanizing things that our world faces today.
“The bigger the student-to-teach ratio the less the quality of education gets,” Joshua Ballard said.
It can be difficult to see a small town that someone was born and raised in turn into a loud and busy metropolis that feeds the needs of consumers.
However, this is not entirely terrible as it allows more people to live in an area comfortably. With rising population numbers, fast food and fast living can benefit large groups of people tremendously.
This uprise in fast living impacts local education systems as well, forcing a larger number of students into one classroom can decrease the level of education the student acquires. Smaller classrooms can lead to more personalized education supporting each person’s problems.
“Students don’t feel they get as much individual work with their teachers, or don’t feel comfortable enough to ask.” Alyssa Ryckman said.
On the other hand, larger school systems can also allow the district to get a higher income intake and may make technology more accessible for the school to gain access to.
More technology increases education by raising access to different ways of research, learning, and communication. Larger populations can also raise the number of teachers in an area, allowing for more electives and extracurricular activities.
The growth of cities is something that is a pressing issue in every town, whether they believe it is beneficial or not.
The ability to keep a small town small is becoming less and less available, and giving in to the fast life seems like the easier answer as more time passes.
