Summary Of Kid's After School By Anna Quindlen

In Girls and Education 3-16: Continuing Concerns, New Agendas, Jannette Elwood, a research professor focused on the field of examination and assessments, contributes a chapter titled: Exploring girl’s relationship to and with achievement: linking assessment, learning, mind and gender. In this section, she discusses gender differences in success of academic courses emerge based upon whether a final grade is primarily reliant on coursework, by which girls tend to excel, or reliant on exams, by which boys tend to excel (44).

In Lynda Barry's essay “The Sanctuary of School” Barry gives her own personal feelings and experiences about the school system. She points out the fact that when times are “lean” the first things the government eliminates from the school systems is the art, music. and other creative programs. In her essay she gives her readers insight on her childhood, explaining how going to school was her get-away from her financially and emotionally unstable home. Barry points out how she and her brother weren’t noticed by their family while at home. For example, at the age of seven Barry sneaks out of the house while it was still dark because she feels a sudden urgency to get to school; when she gets close, she feels a sense of peace come over her. When

When asked about the hunger problems in America one would imagine a homeless person asking and begging for food in the streets. However, what we fail to understand is that hunger is closer to us than what we think. A fellow co-worker or perhaps even the next door neighbor may be an example of someone who suffers from food insecurity. Food insecurity is when a person does not know when or where the next meal will come from. Food insecurity is most likely to develop in food deserts, a place where there is little to no fruits, vegetables and whole healthy foods. The documentary, A Place At The Table, is attempting to shed light on the argument that many Americans suffer from food insecurity because of low income and as result those individuals face various complications.

After reading the extensive “The New Face of Hunger” (Tracie McMillan), my eyes became more open to the overall issue of hunger, faced by many people today. In a few words, I was absolutely shocked by the true meaning and examples provided of what exactly food insecurity is. Honestly speaking, when I hear the word “hunger” I think of a human who has no food, living on the streets. “The New Face of hunger” brought to my attention that food insecurity is much more than simply having no food. In fact, “In 2006 the U.S. government replaced “hunger” with the term “food insecure” to describe any household where, sometime during the previous year, people didn’t have enough food to eat” (The New Face of Hunger). Not only was I able to see the harsh

In the chapter Body and Mind, Shipler talks about food. "Food is one of the few flexible parts of a tight budget."(Shipler, 201) Other bills can not be changed, rent, utilities, phone bill can not be negotiated, and the amount is due on the due date, period. Food on the other hand can be nipped to fit what money is left over after the concrete bills are paid. "The result is an array of malnourished children in America."(Shipler, 201) When the children are hungry they can not concentrate at school, develop properly or fight off illness. This pushes these children farther and father away from hope of climbing out of poverty. If they can not concentrate and do well in school, they will perhaps not graduate, not get into college, and not get a good job. If they can not develop and fight off illness, they could be doomed to either a sickly life or a very short one. The parents are unable to get proper medical attention and even if they are able if the nutritional situation doesn't change, the medical treatment is almost pointless because the child can't survive with the constant lack of basic needs. Many children suffer from a condition know as "failure to

In Janet Poppendieck's “Want Amid Plenty: From Hunger To Inequality” she argues that America puts excessive focus upon hunger issues among the poor when there are many other important issues that go unnoticed. Poppendieck believes that it is time to find a way to shift the discourse from undernutrition to unfairness, from hunger to inequality. In today's society, there are many food banks, food drives, soup kitchens, etc. Food is extremely abundant in America, therefore Poppendieck's statement is proven true when she states that there is too much focus on hunger. Throughout this text, she strongly supports her claims about hunger, equality, and poverty in general.

Importantly, it deeply explores many factors of the hunger problem, from subsides to health effects but it everything to the central issue of

This, however, is not true for the rest of the year. Many parents may send their children to places such as day camps, school programs, or other services that also serve food, but many parents can’t afford food at home. The main reason for this lack of food is quite simple: the parents lack food because they lack income. This is shown in the text when it says, “The people who run food banks report that most of their clients are minimum-wage workers who can’t afford enough to eat on their salaries.” People lack food because they don’t have the money to get it. Many people do not see this, so it is a difficult thing to stop, but their are several ways this can be

The problem isn’t that a summer break is given. The problem identified is that the options parents have to feed their children aren’t sufficient. As she states,”In most cases these are not parent who are homeless or out of work.” Most of these parents work, but for the minimum wage given they can’t stretch the money to cover bills and food. “Some don’t want or seek government help because of the perceived stigma.” With the ‘turn the

The one thing that we all need is Food. In the U.S. and all over the world there are many people who lack the funds to buy food and millions of starving children. Anna states in her essay that most kids have trouble getting food when school is out because that is the primary source that provides breakfast and lunch. “Summer is really ground zero in the battle to keep kids fed.” (pg 224)

Do you know what it's like to be starving without no food? There's a big problem with kids and not eating in America, and i'm sure in other places too. School for children is a very important place for them. Some kids don't get to go home and have a meal or even eat at all. Many school give free food to kids while they're at school, these programs such as schools or free camps save starving children that never get to eat. In the story Anna Quindlen points out that getting food stamps for people that actually need it takes more time then selling weapons. “Stamp application is twelve often impenetrable pages; a permit to sell weapons is just two.” This shows we have a big problem in America.

Amy Goldwasser in her article “What’s the Matter with Kids Today?” believes our fear of technology should be disregarded and that technology actually makes kids into reporters and documentarians. Goldwasser calls on parents of teenagers to allow their children to be exposed to some technology because it can influence them to write and witness the importance of speech. The first rhetoric device Goldwasser uses is a rhetorical question: “So much so that we can’t see that the Internet is only a means of communication, and one that has created a generation, perhaps the first, of writers, activists, storytellers?” (Goldwasser). The author highlights the simplicity of the Internet so that it does not sound as dangerous as it is made out to be.

The book Evicted makes Arleen and other mothers appear lazy because of their dependence on welfare checks to be given to them. It’s obvious that Arleen does depend on welfare checks, however she’s not unemployed like the book says. Taking care of children is a job in its own, so the blame for single mother’s dependency on welfare check lies with the loss or abandonment of the father. Fathers who abandon their kids are the reason why we’ve noticed the feminization of poverty. With more and more moms being abandoned they must to pay an unfair amount of rent, food for her kids, and work outside the house. For any person, this is a tall order so no wonder we’ve seen an increase in women falling below the poverty line. Even though there’s programs

Only 1-in-6 of these kids participate in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Summer Food Service Program (SFSP). SFSP seeks to address food insecurity among children and youth during the summer months when they are out of school. In 2009–2010, 21 states and the District of Columbia had at least one in four households with children (25 percent or more) facing food hardship, according to the Food Research and Action Center

For most us Americans, knowing when we’re going to eat next is something we very rarely think of, and when we do think about being hungry we still know where our food is coming from. Three big meals a day, and a few snacks in between, is how most of us live. It’s hard for us to imagine what its like for those who go days eating very little or nothing at all. But unfortunately that’s how it is for most of the world and surprisingly it happens in the United Sates as well. There are many reasons malnutrition can happen, and it happens to every age group. Even though there are many ways to treat it, in the