The Problem of Rural Education in the Philippines (Reaction Paper)

Poverty is everywhere in this world especially in education. Poverty in education could come from the location of the school, the child’s home life, how the students feel about school and in many other ways. Poverty comes in all shapes and forms, “An appalling number of American Children live in poverty. According to the National Center for Children in Poverty, 14.7 million, or nearly 20 percent of children under age 18, live below the poverty line” (When Poverty…). The kids/students bring those debilitating effect with them to school every day.

Poverty is “about not having enough money to meet basic needs including food, clothing and shelter”(what is poverty, 2009). Everybody might know this meaning and the problem.

Poverty is the state of being extremely poor, meaning having little to no money, goods or means of support. Lacking basic living materials such as food ,clothes ,shoes, and a household. You may not be missing all of these but could could just be barely able to afford them. Poverty is a multidimensional issue that concerns a person’s level of health access and coverage, available educational opportunities and quality of life, according to the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative. “ The U.K.-based think tank released on Tuesday the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index, which helps provide a better understanding of the causes of poverty to better address the issue”(Caratao).

Poverty is the condition of being unable to obtain socially money or possessions. Poverty has been established in multiple countries for years; in many divergent degrees. From the late

Poverty is a hard concept for people to put into words. Ruby Payne states a working definition of poverty in her book A Framework for Understanding Poverty in which she says, “The extent to which an individual does without resources” (7). For a better look, the dictionary defines poverty as “the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions”

Poverty is a situation in which income is inadequate to provide for basic needs such as food, shelter, medical care, and clothing. Poverty has been a problem for societies since the beginning of time.

Poverty is the condition of being without adequate food or money. American Psychological Association (MLA):

What is poverty? According to the Dictionary, “Poverty is said to exist when people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs.” Poverty is hunger. Poverty is lack of shelter. Poverty is being sick and not being able to see a doctor. Poverty is not having access to school and not

Poverty is the fear of not knowing where your next meal is going to come from, or where you’re going to sleep at night. It’s living life without basic needs such as food, clothing, and shelter. The quality of living in poverty is changing over time and so is the perception which is based solely upon the individual. Therefore, ‘living in poverty” may vary from one person to the next. However, it can be best to view poverty through the actual living conditions.

What is poverty? Poverty is not simply a matter of low income flow. Poverty can be generally categorized as the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support (http://www.dictionary.com/browse/poverty). There are two types of Absolute poverty where individuals have no access to the basic necessities in life including food, water, clothing, shelter and Relative poverty occurs when people do not enjoy a certain minimum level of living standards as determined by a government that vary from country to country, sometimes within the same country (Brunswick and Canada, 2010).

I had the opportunity to experience a challenging and at times tumultuous education system in Quezon City, an overpopulated city in the Philippines. Being poor placed constraints in both the students who wanted to pursue a proper education and on the academic institutions that provided them. Public school classrooms were overcrowded and dropout rates were at an all time high. Poverty stricken children were unable to afford schools that had an advanced curriculum and properly trained educators. Most students completed their academic career in high school and ended up in local call centers earning minimum wage. Eventually, they will have families they can barely support and send to school. It became a never-ending cycle with no one to lead them to a brighter future. This experience stayed and inspired me.

Poverty is the state of being tremendously poor or lacking the necessary things needed to live a healthy life. Poverty is immutable, it has adapted to different environments, however it still resides as a part of the world. Poverty is a natural outcome of a competitive economy. The full employment policy is too expensive to consider an option, thus making it harder to acquire money. Poverty is an immutable problem that will never be purged.

Poverty is defined as lacking in money and/or possessions. Poverty perpetuates, infests family health and well being, hinders the ability for proper nutritional growth, chips away at personal resilience, deteriorates educational systems, widens the social gaps of “us” versus “them” feeding into stigmas.

What’s poverty? Most people consider themselves poor for not being able to buy the newest fashionable car or beautiful big house, while some people can’t even afford to buy a single cart of milk for their children. According to The World Bank Organization, poverty is hunger, lack of shelter, being sick and not able to visit a doctor, and having no access to education. In general, poverty is when a person can’t meet basic personal needs such as food, clothing, and shelter.

Poverty is “the state or condition of having little or no money, goods, or means of support; condition of being poor” (Dictionary.com, 2017). Based off this definition poverty is a condition that can cause a cascade of cause and effect actions that is detrimental to families and individuals both physically and mentally. Haan, Kaplan, & Camacho (2017) completed a study on the correlation between social and economic status and health in adults in Oakland, CA. They found that the lower the socioeconomic class the higher incidents of diseases and deaths related to chronic diseases (p.1161-1162). Just being without money or little money was not the only indication of health indication, a person living in an area with higher poverty issues