Analysis Of Donna Beegle's 'All Kids Should Take Poverty 101'

In her essay, “All Kids Should Take Poverty 101” Donna Beegle’s main argument is on the behalf of how our educational curriculum should have some sort of poverty course as a requirement. By having a course such like this one in our curriculum, children from K-12 will have a greater knowledge of how life is in poverty. It can teach you the real definition of poverty, and get children to realize how fortunate and blessed they are. If our future children have this particular requirement in their education career, it would be a huge benefit. Beegle’s main goal is to make this mandatory for all children, as well as decreasing the percentage of poverty worldwide. Making this change in our children’s education will not only help them become free from poverty but most importantly teach them to make the right decisions for their future. Beegle starts her essay by giving the readers the main purpose of her essay. Which is, that no one will be able to graduate without taking some sort of poverty course. She continues to talk about her childhood and the many obstacles she faced. In her essay, she stated, “I was born into generational poverty,” (Beegle 342). She grew up with …show more content…
For example, Beegle’s point in the essay on behalf of why people like Oprah would rather help children in Africa, than in America. This showed us her purpose was to persuade readers that teaching children about poverty is beneficial for children’s future. If we were to teach our children in grades K-12 the correct definition of poverty, children in any financial level will be less likely to take things for granted. Beegle’s purpose on why she talked about the method of belonging is to make the readers realize that children in our society are too worried about materialistic things rather than necessities. Beegle believes if children were taught about poverty, our nation would be different