The Importance Of Homelessness In Public Schools

Imagine being lost or don’t know where to go. You go each night and day in the cold and nasty weather on a ground called your bed. When you wake up every morning to all different noises trying to decide what public place will let you clean off. When you get hungry, you beg people for change to get a cheap meal or go through the trash for meals. For the rest of the day you will sit and wait until somebody notice you and help you out. Sleeping under bridges until you find a shelter to sleep in. Going days without washing because you couldn’t find no place to clean off. Going day after day asking for help but people seem like they don't notice you. Scared to ask people because you really don’t know what they going to say. It would be hard
In 2009-2010 school year CMS identified 4,453 students as homelessness.1,598 received support services through ACP ( A Child’s Place).A Child’s Place has its roots in the concerns of a group of working women, who back in 1989 noticed children playing in Settler’s Cemetery in uptown Charlotte when they should have been in school. These concerned citizens discovered that local laws required a permanent address before a child could be enrolled in school, and these children were living with their mothers at the Salvation Army Women and Children’s Shelter. At the urging of this group, CMS provided a teacher and the First Presbyterian Church provided a Sunday School classroom for this first group of 27 children. This was a “one-room schoolhouse” model, kindergarten through sixth grade, with volunteer mentors and classroom assistants. ACP also protected the educational rights for homelessness children. In 2002 they also brought back up the original act from 1987, which states “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND”. This agency helped out with shelters, pay-by-week motels, and foster children awaiting permanent placement. ACP is the only agency that focuses on the needs of homeless students. They help mitigate the impacts of homelessness on student academic performance. ACP directly meets the student's needs so that CMS can provide the education. ACP can also help with well-balanced snacks each school day, school uniforms and clothing,school supplies, medical and dental care,small social skill groups,free tutorials service,a lunch buddies,and much more. As result of ACP in the school year of 2009-2010; 93 percent are reading on or above grade level, 93 percent were promoted to the next grade level,43 percent of ACP students had at least one