Voices is the Dorset Echo's weekly youth page - written for young people by young people

A lack of funding for schools equals a lack of education for students.

Therefore, GCSE grades will plummet, resulting in the education system to fail.

This has already been evident as the council leader of Swindon has said that GCSE results are ‘not good enough,’ and soon this impact will spread to other areas.

Schools are in a constant combat simply trying to maintain their standards.

Recently, the Thomas Hardye School, my school, has been hit hard due to this epidemic that is damaging schools across the nation.

As the school is not granted enough money to afford the staff it needs, it has resorted to crowdfunding, which has been described as "another shocking example" of how government cuts to funding are "failing" schools by Dr Mary Bousted, joint general secretary of the National Education Union.

The fact that one of the richest countries in the world is not able to maintain basic standards of education is nothing short of humiliating – this country has been victorious, but it is not with how it has managed the education system.

Education should be effective, and suitable for all, but the cuts have impacted innocent children and young adults who obey the law and attend school, expecting an effective education in return – something that they are failing to receive due to the inadequate support from the government.

By James Sullivan