Starving for Education
“Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be.” –Rita Pierson, Educator. The issue of poverty was first brought to my attention to a letter sent home from my child’s school, Heth-Washingtion Elementary School in Central Indiana. The letter was addressed to all parents and businesses in the area, asking for donations. Donations not for money, but for snacks for the children that attended the school. The letter claimed that kids were going to school hungry and were unable to concentrate on anything but their growling stomach. After a little research I have found there is a significant problem with poverty …show more content…
In addition to condensed teaching time, “poor school districts are not able to provide the facilities students need, despite high tax rates, while wealthier districts often exceed the needs of students with low tax rates” demanded LaMart Hightower in, Poverty and Education. With inadequate funding poorer districts are getting, pupils are not getting quality teachers. Hightower maintained that teachers starting their careers in a poor school districts just to get the experience they need and moving to a richer district (Hightower, 2011, p. 1). Not only are they struggling at home with proper care, they have a bleak future at school with teachers that are barely qualified to teach them. How are these teachers going to address their basic needs as well as their educational needs? The answer to that is, they cannot and it shows in their test scores. Furthermore in Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing, Meredith Broussard illustrated, that several schools do not have the means to buy books that are published by the companies that also write and grade the standardized test (Broussard, 2014, p. 3). Therefore, if kids are going to past these tests, then they need the books that the test makers are publishing. If the schools cannot afford them, they have no chance in passing the standardized
“Every child deserves a champion: an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists they become the best they can possibly be.” –Rita Pierson, Educator. The issue of poverty was first brought to my attention to a letter sent home from my child’s school, Heth-Washingtion Elementary School in Central Indiana. The letter was addressed to all parents and businesses in the area, asking for donations. Donations not for money, but for snacks for the children that attended the school. The letter claimed that kids were going to school hungry and were unable to concentrate on anything but their growling stomach. After a little research I have found there is a significant problem with poverty …show more content…
In addition to condensed teaching time, “poor school districts are not able to provide the facilities students need, despite high tax rates, while wealthier districts often exceed the needs of students with low tax rates” demanded LaMart Hightower in, Poverty and Education. With inadequate funding poorer districts are getting, pupils are not getting quality teachers. Hightower maintained that teachers starting their careers in a poor school districts just to get the experience they need and moving to a richer district (Hightower, 2011, p. 1). Not only are they struggling at home with proper care, they have a bleak future at school with teachers that are barely qualified to teach them. How are these teachers going to address their basic needs as well as their educational needs? The answer to that is, they cannot and it shows in their test scores. Furthermore in Why Poor Schools Can’t Win at Standardized Testing, Meredith Broussard illustrated, that several schools do not have the means to buy books that are published by the companies that also write and grade the standardized test (Broussard, 2014, p. 3). Therefore, if kids are going to past these tests, then they need the books that the test makers are publishing. If the schools cannot afford them, they have no chance in passing the standardized