Aehsa is a twenty year old girl that attends college at Kingsborough Community College in Brooklyn, New York. Aesha and her one year old son were forced to move out of their house because her husband started to be abusive. They were forced to leave on the streets and were moved from place to place. They faced horrible conditions along the way. They had to sleep on benches, places were very crowded, and they had to watch everything they had with them. They were finally placed in a group home in queens. Bader shows that Aesha is not the only homeless person to still attend college. The National Student Campaign against Hunger and Homelessness often sees that most people do not try and go to college because they cannot afford it. According to a 2003 survey, the median wage to afford a two bedroom apartment cost $15.21, which is three times as much as the minimum. Colleges focus more on the wealthier students and they do not even try to help the poor people with getting an education. Life on campus for a homeless student is very hard. They have nowhere to do their work, shower, which may hurt them with their grades. A unknown faculty member named by B.R. actually went out of her way to allow some students to sleep in her office. There were some other faculty members that knew about B.R. letting people stay there but didn’t say anything since it was against college policy. Due to the fact that the student were allowed to stay there, they ended up getting an education and ended up being a social…
On March 23rd, 2017, Kendra Tew, a Community Assistant at The Varsity Housing, authorized a preliminary study that addresses the feasibility of introducing a Dunkin’ Donuts store in the vacant medium-sized retail space that is available near the main entrance of the complex as well as survey that indicates the number of prospective customers around the area. We have completed, to a reasonable extent, the first, second, third and fourth task of our major project: researching how to lease quality space in a privately…
family is living in a small apartment. Fair housing can benefit a community because people can find affordable homes. Attending college was possible. Examples of unfair housing are segregation. Minorities are affected because they cannot live where they want.…
In his writing about the ‘Other People’s Children’, Jonathan describes the views that people gives to those children who study in the abandoned schools that they view as educationally inferior. He discloses the argument from many who consider these children not to qualify for any post high school education. Therefore, the only solution for these inner-city school children is to acquire training for low-level jobs that they will eventually do. They are not privileged as the wealthy suburban that are capable of going to colleges and becoming better people in the future. Kozol states that those giving such opinions about these children are the same people against the idea of spending much money on educating the poor inner city children. He states that the underprivileged children and…
factors that should be explored in addition to just finding lower income housing. Joseph is facing…
Summary: The authors explain how the connection with minorities’ attendance in Universities and cost correlate more than most people even consider. For kids living in an inner city environments college and university has been painted as a place for privileged white people. This source is a trustable because not only did the State University of New York in Albany support this book, each author is a skilled professor. Walter R. Allen is Professor of Sociology at UCLA. Edgar G. Epps is Professor in the Department of Education at the University of Chicago. Nesha Z. Haniff is Assistant Professor in the Center for Afro-American and African Studies and Lecturer in the Women 's Studies Program at the University of Michigan…
Savage Inequalities, written by Jonathan Kozol, shows his two-year investigation into the neighborhoods and schools of the privileged and disadvantaged. Kozol shows disparities in educational expenditures between suburban and urban schools. He also shows how this matter affects children that have few or no books at all and are located in bad neighborhoods. You can draw conclusions about the urban schools in comparison to the suburban ones and it would be completely correct. The differences between a quality education and different races are analyzed. Kozol even goes as far as suggesting that suburban schools have better use for their money because the children's futures are more secure in a suburban setting. He thinks that each child should receive as much as they need in order to be equal with everyone else. If children in Detroit have greater needs than a student in Ann Arbor, then the students in Detroit should receive a greater amount of money.…
Each family has a socioeconomic status that is based on family income, parental education level, occupation and social status in the community. Families with low socioeconomic status often lack in their financial, education and social supports that families with high socioeconomic status don’t lack. Usually poor families have inadequate or limited access to community resources…
America continues to struggle with the rising cost of higher education. As the cost of college and university grows, the number of homeless students also grows.…
The student’s socioeconomic status will strongly affect learning. Some students may have parents with well paying jobs and are able to travel and perhaps wear more expensive clothing. Other students may barely have enough to eat and live in less than…
Students in families with annual incomes of fifty thousand or more were more likely to be victimized, as opposed those students whose families with annual incomes of less than ten thousand;…
Student living conditions many times dictate how well children do in school and they may help determine if a child may be a risk for dropping out. Sherry admits in her essay that in the past, she herself has excused many of her students’ less than desirable academic skills due to poor living conditions such as drug use in the home, alcoholism, poverty, and divorce. After giving more thought to the issue, Sherry decided to look at these failing students more as personal and professional challenges. She realized she needed to stop making excuses for their failures and do something about it. Yes, poor living conditions can be a contributing factor in a student’s academic downfall but they do not have to. Children need to know that hard work equals success and that no one will allow them to just breeze through school. Children need to have a healthy fear of failure and know that failing is a real threat. Teachers can help by finding creative and interesting ways to gain their students attention and…
In our modern society child homelessness and racial issues can be widespread, like parasites afflicting a mass population. For homeless students, getting through college can be a feat, three of four never graduates high school. Racial issues have also been an impediment to students' success. However, there were some who succeeded. Overall, Two factors affecting the success of many students today is racial segregation and poverty.…
Homelessness has a devastating impact on children and their educational opportunities. When their grades are…
A housing grant would be very vital in helping me to succeed at the University of Cincinnati. They say students who live on campus have better success rates. I will be majoring in engineering and it is one of the hardest majors, I feel it is very important for me to stay on campus if I am going to have success in my field of study. There are many benefits to staying on campus that will help towards my success.…