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Amoral, cunning, ruthless, and instructive is the definitive manual for anyone interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control. In the book that People magazine proclaimed “beguiling” and “fascinating,” Robert Greene and Joost Elffers have distilled three thousand years of the history of power into 48 essential laws by drawing from philosophies of Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, and Carl Von Clausewitz and also from the lives of figures ranging from Henry Kissinger to P.T. Barnum. One example of the 48 laws says: play on people`s need to believe to create a cultlike following – people have an overwhelming desire to believe in something. Become the focal point of such desire by offering them a cause, a new faith to follow. Machiavelli advocates that to remain in power, a prince must avoid the hatred of his power. Machiavelli warns princes against doing things that might result in hatred.

School funding across the states has reached an all-time low, and it is due to unfair funding. States such as Texas have been taken to the supreme court over inadequate funding. Overall, there is a need for change in how many schools are funded.
A metal worker named Demetrio Rodriguez, who had a child in the Edgewood School District, filed a federal lawsuit against the Edgewood Independent School District. Edgewood, according to Demetrio, had an irrefutable lack of funding compared to wealthier districts. He thought this was due to two reasons: A, the location of the school district being in a lower economic standing than other schools, and B, the fact that the dominant race in the school district is Mexican American. This case was eventually taken to the Supreme Court by Rodriguez and 15 other parents that were recruited by Rodriguez. The case was dubbed San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez. The court’s decision though did not live up to Rodriguez’s hopes. The court stated that education was not guaranteed and that the Texas school system had not violated any protected rights. Keep in mind this was in 1968. I believe if this case was reopened it would have a much better outcome. This is just one of many documented events of school funding being neglected due to location.
Another example of biased funding was found by the Washington Post. They posted many statistics that showed bias in school funding, though this statistic proves my point clearly and effectively: “Most states have largely stagnant or declining funding levels, and vast disparities among states remain. In fourteen states, funding levels in 2011 were below 2007 levels, even without adjusting for inflation. There is over a $10,000 gap between the highest funded state (Wyoming) and the lowest (Idaho). The
majority of states have funding systems with “flat” or “regressive” funding distribution patterns that ignore the need for additional funding in high-poverty districts. Recent trends show an increase in the number of regressive states and a decline in the number of progressive states. For example,

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