Journal Topic 2: Scarcity at School?

Q: As we have learned, scarcity is an economic fact. We always want more than we can get with our given resources. This forces us to make trade-offs; we give up one thing in order to get another. This is true in every type of society, including that of our school. Write about some examples of scarcity that the different entities at PAS encounter (students, teachers, office staff, and so on), then write about what those entities have to give up in order to get what they want. Finally, write about your own experiences with scarcity at PAS. What are the resources that you want more of? What keeps you from getting all that you want? What are some examples of some trade-offs that you have had to make?

A: An example of the scarcity at school are the school facilities.  The school campus only has one floor, and all of the teachers, staffs, and the students might need more space for teaching and learning.  For art teachers and art students, it is necessary for them to have enough art supplies.  Because our school is a private school, and the government does not have financial support for us.  School then have to buy for the students, but in certain conditions, students have to buy for their own.  As an art student myself, I required to buy most of my own art supplies.  I wish that school can provide the art students for their supplies, but the head of school board have the decision to decide whether to support or not.  I might need a higher grade on art to prove that the supplies are necessities. 

Journal Topic 1: Big Questions

In PAS, if students and staffs both producers and consumers, the goods or services are being produced maybe are the education itself and the classed that students are going to.  If the classes that students are going to are the goods and services made by the staff and teachers, students will be the consumers in PAS.  In terms of students being the producers, they are being seen as teachers and the staff's income resources. Without the students, teachers cannot really teach anything.  In order to create income, teachers have to take students, and education them.  The person that is makes all the choices of what goods and services get to produced is Pamela.  She also the administrator of the school, so she have the control over the entire school.
The consumers, students, are people who can reflect the social interests when the majority of the people decided to follow other people's interest instead of their own, that is probably when the social interests are being reflected.