Homelessness In Schools Summary

The application of the concepts and ideas for educators
The ideas presented in the book are very relevant to the educators, since the questions raised by the book can serves as the start point of the educators presenting solutions to the problem of homelessness. The mere fact that the welfare system is using $2100 per month to pay for the homeless to live in the homeless shelter in the Martinique Hotel, while the homeless can live decently in different shelters at a relatively lower costs, calls for intellectual intervention. Therefore, the educators can take this idea and teach it to the students, who would in turn be the ambassadors of change in the American welfare system. On the alternative, the educators can take such an idea and institute …show more content…
Additionally, the educators can institute studies to unearth the main reasons why the homeless welfare system is opting to keep the homeless individuals in an indecent lifestyle, yet they have sufficient resources to give them an alternative decent life. The educators can assess whether there is an intention to keep the class system in check within the society, so much so that the existing resources are being wasted, while denying the people an opportunity to join the rest of the society in living a decent life. The ideas presented by the book are also relevant to the educators, considering that it is an opportunity for them to chart the most appropriate way through which the homeless can improve their opportunities for living a decent life, outside of their dependence on the welfare system. Finally, the educators have an opportunity to investigate the relationship between American society attitudes towards the homeless …show more content…
The book acts as a clarion call for the American and the global education system to assess the societal priorities in an objective and constructive manner, to establish whether the society is prioritizing the notion and the negative perceptions about the homeless over their human needs for dignity and decent lives. The American and the global education system have a lot to learn from the ideas presented in this book. These education systems can learn how to make their welfare systems effective, through utilizing the available resources in a homeless welfare system that is decent and preserves human dignity. Further, the American and the global education system have an opportunity to change the attitude towards the homeless, through instituting studies and publications that would present the true nature of the homeless; people with need for a shelter, as opposed to delinquents who are not supposed to be integrated back into the decent life of the rest of the