Poverty Affects Student Education
Poverty Affects Student Education
Catrina Smith
COMM/215
August 4, 2010
Dr. Spann
Poverty Affects Student Education
What is poverty and how can we limit it in student’s educational success? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “more than 11 million kids in the US live below the poverty line and do not have the basic supplies that they need to succeed.” Students all around the world are faced with many problems in their life at some point or another. Teenagers, sometimes have the difficulty learning and adapting to certain situations. This can lead to the problem with poverty and the ways in which the students have struggling efforts in the progression towards his or her education. “People in poverty face challenges virtually unknown to those in middle class or wealth; challenges from both obvious and hidden sources. The reality of being poor brings out a survival mentality and turns opportunities taken for granted by everyone else” (Payne). Poverty affects everyone who is around those living in poverty. Students’ achievement in the classroom shows that a child’s learning success is being affected when students are unchallenged, unmotivated, and belittled by their peers and community. When students are faced with general patterns of poverty, their education becomes a factor. Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. The general problems with poverty progress around the challenging attributes of the teacher to push the student in to learning. When students are not necessarily forced but are more engaged and active by the teacher’s will to teach them the skills they will need to succeed in their education, it could help benefit their process of learning. In contrast to those living in the poverty stricken conditions, these particular children may not have the proper guidance to strive them to want to learn. This is where the teachers begin to play a major role in the
Catrina Smith
COMM/215
August 4, 2010
Dr. Spann
Poverty Affects Student Education
What is poverty and how can we limit it in student’s educational success? According to the U.S. Census Bureau, “more than 11 million kids in the US live below the poverty line and do not have the basic supplies that they need to succeed.” Students all around the world are faced with many problems in their life at some point or another. Teenagers, sometimes have the difficulty learning and adapting to certain situations. This can lead to the problem with poverty and the ways in which the students have struggling efforts in the progression towards his or her education. “People in poverty face challenges virtually unknown to those in middle class or wealth; challenges from both obvious and hidden sources. The reality of being poor brings out a survival mentality and turns opportunities taken for granted by everyone else” (Payne). Poverty affects everyone who is around those living in poverty. Students’ achievement in the classroom shows that a child’s learning success is being affected when students are unchallenged, unmotivated, and belittled by their peers and community. When students are faced with general patterns of poverty, their education becomes a factor. Poverty is the state of one who lacks a usual or socially acceptable amount of money or material possessions. The general problems with poverty progress around the challenging attributes of the teacher to push the student in to learning. When students are not necessarily forced but are more engaged and active by the teacher’s will to teach them the skills they will need to succeed in their education, it could help benefit their process of learning. In contrast to those living in the poverty stricken conditions, these particular children may not have the proper guidance to strive them to want to learn. This is where the teachers begin to play a major role in the
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