We Are A High Poverty Community

Student attendance is important to reaching key academic milestones, graduating from high school and having access to opportunities as adults. Studies show that students who are chronically absent (miss 18 days or more during the school year for any reason) are less likely to graduate from high school. SPS Housing and Education Manager Kathlyn Paananen speaks to the significance of caring adults in a student’s life as having a proven, positive impact on student success, “Best practices to address attendance include having a supportive community that positively reinforce regular school attendance!”

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

Families require stabilized housing that is affordable, safe and maintained. If they don’t have stabile housing they are moving more often and this can effect the children’s education when being moved from school to school. The parents are unable to focus on the other areas of their lives when they are unable to find decent housing.

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

Second, poverty also has an effect on students. There are more than half of public school students living in poverty and most students who live in poverty drop out of school and do not graduate or go to college (Kasperkevic). Some children actually think it is their fault that their families are homeless (60 Minutes). Also, poverty can affect students

The middle school I am currently working at has the highest minority rate in all of KISD. We are a low socioeconomic campus, and a large number of students I deal with come from broken homes. A large number of students only have one parent in the home, or they live with relatives. I have had students tell me they did not sleep the night prior because there was a fight in their home. I have had students tell me there was no food because mom used the money for alcohol or drugs. I have had students come in the next day crying because a family member was shot the night prior. The kids in my school also tend to move every six months, because that is when the lease is up, and the parent can’t pay the net bill. The truth is a large number of these

Going to school frequently won't guarantee that those children learn however, missing expanded times of school puts a kid at danger. Especially when they miss moments where they are supposed to be gaining the fundamental scholarly abilities that prompt getting to be successful. All children, despite ethnicity and financial foundation, do scholastically worse in first grade on the off chance that they are chronically truant (missing 10 percent or a greater amount of school including pardoned and unexcused absences) in kindergarten. A late study in California found that just 17 percent of kids chronically missing in both kindergarten and first grade were capable perusers before the end of third grade when contrasted with 64 percent of their companions who

Is the rising poverty rate of America negatively affecting the education of high school students across the nation? Unemployment, parents’ level of education and a profound list that continues has shown to impact a child’s education. In 2013, “a majority of of children attending our K-12 public schools [came] from low-income families” (Suitts 35). Poverty-stricken students are more likely to receive poor grades than those living above the poverty line. What seems to be affecting the grades of these impoverished students? The constant need to support their family financially, physically, and emotionally. Teachers may be unaware that some students face these hardships throughout their daily lives. They need to understand that students of lower socioeconomic statuses may not prioritize homework over taking care of their family during a time of need. Teachers should be more aware to better serve and understand their students. There is crucial evidence that supports that socioeconomic status does affect the education of those living under the poverty line, but some researchers believe that it has no effect on students’ education at all. Teachers should be more aware how socioeconomic status affects the grades of high school students.

When I was working in Puerto Rico, I was in a private school, where the SES background of my students was different from mine, but in the other direction. Parents were educated, with bachelor's and masters, wealthy, while I had a lower salary and was under the poverty level. Students wanted to learn and did what they had to do. Now that I teach in another school in the U.S., where students were born and still live in poverty, it is difficult for them to focus and do their jobs. My students are living difficult times, especially in their home. According to The American Life (2012), if a child had four or more adverse situations in their life, they are 32 times as high of having learning and behavioral problems. My perception and assumptions about my students SES can affect their learning, however, I am aware of that, and I treat my students in the same way. I can put myself in “their shoes” and understand why they behave the way they do it. I can probably understand, in one way or another, their difficulties because when I was a child, like no having meat to eat, or to have just water in the refrigerator, or have no money to buy something that I need for school. However, my mom worked a lot for me and my brothers. My brothers and I always received free breakfast and lunch at school. Now, thanks to the sacrifices of my mother, I am where I am. I need to remember every day where I came from to put my perception and assumptions aside and help my students each day in their learning process and experience. Also, I do not feel that the difference between my SES my students SES affect the way I teach to

For those who live in the United States, some do not see the correlation between poverty and its effects on people’s behavior to their academics. Poverty affects many students at a young age depending on the location they are in as it prevents underprivileged kids to seek higher education. However, with new opportunities [in effect], kids in poverty can have the same education as privileged kids. Poverty stricken students are disadvantaged when trying to obtain a higher education. Children in poverty lose their motivation in school when they do not have the support of their parents. Some other issues students face includes parents not being able to assist their child in school. Another is that the child is not able to go to school because they have to work instead and support their families. Although public education is available to all children, those that live in poverty are deprived of its full potential due to the factors of low family incomes as well as the lack of self-motivation and the importance of having an education.

“These factors include: incidence of poverty, the depth of poverty, the duration of poverty, the timing of poverty (age of child), community characteristics (concentration of poverty and crime in neighborhood, and school characteristics) and the impact poverty has on the child’s social network (parents, relatives and neighbors).” Any one of these factors can contribute to a child not being able to focus in school which can ultimately lead to a child falling behind in their education. With the current trajectory the education system as a whole, not taking into account those disadvantage students that may struggle at school because they have to worry about trying not to struggle at home when the school day is

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

As poverty happens, parents are unable to send their children to school due to high cost of school fees and they feel that jobs would not be available even if the children went to school. Frequent truancy throughout the school year caused the children to miss educational information and skills which would be useful for them in the later life. Children who were truant often shows a lower achievement, which fostered an academic frustration causing further truancy. However, poverty are one of the main causes of truancy other than illness, family problems and lack of motivation in the child. For family who are struggling with poverty, a child adds an extensive stress to the family, as parents needs to fulfil the child’s wants and needs. According to McLoyd (1990) describes that families with lower income or facing poverty is associated with anxiety and depression. With these qualities, may cause part of the parent to be authoritative and generally unsupportive towards their children. As parents who are authoritative may promote the use of disciplinary approaches rather than other approaches such as reasoning and negotiating. Children who are brought up by authoritarian style of parenting

Children are extremely pliable human beings, or they are easily influenced and affected. Factors such as their home life, economic status, and relationships to others affect children heavily. This, in turn, affects their performance in school. More often than not, if your family is troubled with financial issues, performance in school suffers as well. This may be considered one of the reasons people are often stuck in the social class they were born into.

Technology has made great strides in the past 20 years. It plays a very important role in our lives today and even plays a critical role in the way students learn all over the world. Unfortunately, students now rely on technology instead of learning key fundamentals. Technology has replaced the need to learn and most answers are just a google search away. Technology has also become expensive and lower socioeconomic school districts have found affording the newest technology difficult because of their lack of funding. Technology is a great learning tool when used appropriately. The lower socioeconomic school falls behind in the expanding frontier of technology in the classroom because they cannot afford it compared to their counterparts and results in a gap in education. The development of technology in the classroom has caused students to fail the learning of fundamentals and has exploited lower socioeconomic school districts.