It's not Delivery, It's Displacement

Everyone loves money. It is one of the greatest feelings to get money and one of the worst to lose it. Money is the most essential element to having success. It is needed to do everything from running a car to making a school function. The later of these is where Skagway School has difficulty.
Skagway School is a school that is dedicated to higher learning. To achieve this goal of higher learning they need proper quality funding. In the state of Alaska schools get a certain amount of funding depending on their enrollment count. Skagway, in past years, has had an enrollment count of anywhere from 100 to 120 students; but it has almost always been over 100. That 100-student-mark is crucial one. Schools with an enrollment count of over 100 students get a significant amount more funding then schools below the 100 mark. In our many years with more than 100 students, Skagway School District has been able to afford many learning devices: a set of high-quality digital conferencing equipment, Mac Book computers for each student, and a complete set of river kayaks, mountain bikes and much more. Each of these devices is an essential part of our curriculum. However, as the economy plunges, so does our enrollment. It is currently projected to come in just under 90 students, drastically reducing our funding and possibly causing the school district to relinquish the BASIC learning tools that we have worked hard for.
Nothing can be done for the immediate alleviation of this crisis. However, in the long run, change can be made. Every day I see commercials for companies that try to help poverty all over the globe. According to a study done by Anup Shah, about 27-28 percent of the worlds children in growing countries are underweight or stunted. However, there is poverty everywhere: from Russia, to China, to Africa, even in the US’s largest cities people are living in horrible conditions. My plan is alleviate our crisis by helping these families. I propose that we send people to every third world corner in the globe, from Africa, to Eastern Europe, to even our own backyard in LA and Detroit, and many more. These “missionaries” can bring food and clothing to those in need and attempt to befriend them. Once each family feels as though our missionaries are great friends then we could make a proposal to them. If they allow us to take one child per ten square miles back home with us every year then we will take that child off of their hands. I will first explain to you how this plan will take place. Then I will demonstrate how much sense it makes to follow this plan for both the villages and Skagway School. Finally, I will discuss how the new and improved Skagway will be much improved afterwards.
If my proposal was to work in its entirety then we wouldn’t be able to take just any kids. We would focus on specimens that had something to offer Skagway that no one else could. We would focus on children of age 10 to 15 because the have just started to demonstrate their talents. Skagway School’s sports have always been a focal point, and if we want to continue that tradition then we should attempt to acquire top athletes for each sport. Each year we could deepen our cross country team with a few especially fit Kenyans. Our track team, which has been a bit smaller as of late, could use the speedy quick Jamaicans to help it a little. One of Skagway’s favorite sports is basketball, which would benefit from some southern Californian high-fliers, and maybe even a few of the taller Chinese. Wrestling, also, is a competitive sport, and to keep it strong we could have a few eastern European toughies, and one or two Russians. We could never forget, however, the academic side of school. A friendly Asian professor assures me that the Chinese are the best scientists in the world, and that the Indians are quite prolific at math. However, his method for extraction is of inhumanely packing them into freight containers and shipping them to Skagway for a very cheap fee. On the other hand, it would be very useful to invest in some of these geniuses. This plan, although it could take a while, would both boost our enrollment way over 100, and put some talented people into our school system.

My plan would also help the families of the children. When our missionaries first arrived in these places, we would want the locals would be exposed to a refined society. For that reason, we wouldn't just send anyone to them. According to a study done by a French Friar, anyone can be taught to be a kind and hospitable (the exact traits that we need). An interview from an unnamed guard at the Lemon Creek Penitentiary assures me that there is an excessive amount of minor miscreants that it is getting hard to feed. If we combined both of these educated individuals testimony, then we could use it to train the petty criminals to become hospitable and loving of all. This would help both the local crime rate and foreign exposure to higher classes. As our people learned the local language and became used to each places customs, the locals would become more trusting of them. Then when the proposal is given, they could make no more logical choice than to accept. They would be sending their child to a better place, and they would get to keep that little money that they had been spending on him or her. According to another study, over 80 percent of the worlds population lives on less than 10 US dollars a day, that is less than a foot-long sub at Subway. Once the deal was initially put into place, it could be carried on for as long as we need. Our missionary could move to another region and continue the cycle. Then, whenever we needed a specific talent or a boost in enrollment, we could send a simple letter or, in special cases, a missionary to pick out the ideal child.
Although it could take a while, Skagway would be a much improved borough after the plan was completed. We would have massive ethnic diversity, our test scores would soar to unimaginable heights, and our sports teams would make history. Many of the people that were shipped in to go through our school system would stay in Skagway after they graduate. This would mean that eventually they could have kids and boost our school even more. This event would go down in history as one of the greatest ideas, and it could be used to help any dieing city.
My plan would enable Skagway to not only retain a quality school, but also allow it to excel. It would help both us, and families from around the globe. Finally it would improve the general condition of Skagway. We are in a time of change and it is time that we joined the movement.