Creating A Summer School Program

Of all the 2.3 million Texas students who get a free or reduced price lunch at school in 2011, only 59.7% participate in the breakfast program. 11% of the 2

Throughout history, public schools have suffered and still continue to fail while the rest of the world is moving ahead. There are various barriers that have prevented low-income student from succeeding with the rest of the world. Parent involvement plays a role because if they lack higher levels of education, most likely this will cause the student to have a disadvantage. Also, because of families with

Industries such as business and medicine depend on extreme methods and forward thinking ideas. To be a successful enterprise, one must be willing to take risks and try new things. Within the last century, education has attempted to take a leap of faith by completely flipping the traditional school schedule and idea of summer vacation upside down. Just as with any idea, there are advantages and disadvantages as well as supporters and opponents. Each district must look at their own individual needs and evaluate the trials from schools that have gone before them to decide if year-round schooling would benefit their school.

Unfortunately, the school's lack of appropriate education results directly from poor government funding. So even with hard work, the lower-class student is still held down by his socio-economic status. Poverty-stricken parents are unable to offer their children the same attention and motivation as parents of a higher-class can, therefore never providing these children with the mindset that they are able to accomplish the American dream. According to Mantsios, 40 million Americans live in poverty, and the mental and physical affects the low standard of living has on them is undeniable (Mantsios 328). Citizens who live in poverty work long hours for little pay, yet return to a household that in no way symbolizes the hard work put forth. Within this environment, very few people have the positive outlook to mentor children successfully.

It has a summer vacation problem, and that's the problem the KIPP schools set out to solve. They decided to bring the lessons of the rice paddy to the American inner city ”. One can clearly notice all the statistical evidences that he represented in the selection and understand that summer vacation has created an achievement gap between disadvantaged kids and privileged kids.

Also, with most low income students coming from backgrounds of working parents, they are not given the privilege to see all the benefits of obtaining their education to build their life in a great career. As wonderfully stated by Bellin, “At a time when social mobility has stalled and the poorest are still suffering the effects of the last recession, investing in college access for students from the lowest socioeconomic backgrounds should be a priority.” (134). When students are shown the importance of education, instead of just hearing about it, they are more likely to understand the benefits and continue on that path and pass their knowledge down to their children. All the lowest socioeconomic class needs is a boost in that positive direction to start the domino effect, so why do we choose to unethically give the cold shoulder to the class that currently has the most need for help and would benefit from it the

There is more to the situation than that these students need to work harder and value school more to become successful. One major cause that contributes to perpetuating urban poverty is the lack of funding that the school systems get. Funding for schools is based on property taxes in the area of the school. If a school is in a poor urban community that can not afford to have high property taxes, there is not as much money going to the schools. This means that students may not have access to the same books, computers, and many other materials that are important for a successful learning environment. Poverty in general also affects students achievements academically because these students may have poor nutrition, a lack of housing or a poor housing environment, and overall most likely live in a stressful environment where they have to worry day to day about getting evicted from their homes or not having enough food to eat. All of these things distract from the time that these students could be learning and make for a difficult at home learning environment. In the movie Dangerous Minds, white savior teacher Ms. Johnson tells the students that their success is up to them and that if they want to they can choose to be successful in life. What this movie does not consider is that there are other things holding these students back

You’ve previously come into the office inquiring about Summer Aid, as mentioned before you able to use to the Federal Loans removed from Fall/Spring Semester to assist with Summer Semester. For the 16/17 school year your remaining loan eligibility before reaching your Dependent Loan Limit, was 3500. This amount is now available for you to accept through your PAW’s account at your convenience.

Alexis, I do agree with you that students in poverty are less likely to be successful then students in higher income. There is a chance for these students to succeed if they have the right teacher even if there parents are not involved in their children education. With the right help and guidance these students can have a chance to break the cycle but if they are put in the back and not getting the right help that they need they will continue following their parents foot

In the U.S., low income students who live in high poverty neighborhoods do not receive the proper funds for school. The schools that they attend do not get enough of the state’s money in order to get the education they need. Students that come from wealthier families can get the help they need outside of school, if they cannot get it in school. Low income students have to take what they are given and that is not always a lot. Every student might not get a textbook that they can take home and that leaves them with no help to do their homework. This can push the student behind the rest of the class and may take them longer to catch up because

A study by the New York Times came out in February of 2015, saying that “just over half of all students attending public schools in the United States are now eligable for free or reduced-priced lunches”. What people don’t often tell you, is what comes in this “free or reduced-priced lunch”.

First, students from Saucier, Lizana, and West Wortham elementary schools are attending summer school at Saucier. These students are from K-8th grades. We were given the task to gather as much information from the students’ home schools as we could. This information was then placed in their summer school folders by myself and Michele Lawrence. This was done in an attempt to give the summer school teachers an indication of what students needed help with. We enclosed a list of the strengths of

The Free Summer Lunch Program is not free, due to the fact that someone, whether or not it is the person eating it, must pay for it. The lunch is not free for the person eating it due to them having to give up their own time and travel to the school, which might cost gas if they drive a car, or maybe it is just them using their time to travel to the school and eat it instead of going to do something else. The lunch is also not free for the organization, in this case the school corporation, because of the fact that they have to have people to serve the lunch as well as to make the meals, they have to have the school open and operating during the time that they are offering the meals, as well as the fact that they have to buy the food itself

Across the United States, summer vacation is a tradition cherished by students and families alike. I myself find that the last few months of school end up turning into a countdown to carefree days. Though cherished, summer vacation can have detrimental effects. Students end up losing some retained knowledge of math and reading during the respite. This evidence has led the country in a debate of whether the summer tradition should still exist. While some believe the learning detriments should lead to the institution of year-round school programs, I believe that summer vacation is far too beneficial with its potential to foster an environment in which one’s identity and creativity can develop.

Students face so many obstacles in education? Well there’s many obstacles people face which makes it difficult to get an education. One of the obstacles people face in society is poverty not everyone has money to afford things in life. To get an education is very expensive and not having money to pay for an education is going to be a struggle. There are children around the world who live in poverty and have never experience attending a school or having an actual classroom because they don’t have enough resources. Poverty can affect a person’s education in the following way: not having a transportation, work, stereotypes, and pay for tuition.