School K-12: A Case Study

Section 1: According to this article poverty rates in school K-12 have risen from 17% to 18%. Most children in public school systems belong to parents or guardians that get paid the minimum amount of money each year. For example, feminization of poverty’s definition is the higher likelihood that female heads of households will be poor. Most women in the United States have grown in their ability to work and raise a family on their own, but the discrimination of women is still intact in society where they are paid lower wages. Therefore, free or reduced lunches in school is a relatively great thing. However, the effect on the schools to do this for children is difficult to determine. School’s mostly consider finances from parents to determine …show more content…
I chose these because of the level of skill and achievement they must have in order to fill in the important roles in society. These all have a high level of some kind of education and benefit society tremendously. Lawyers know the law and can give justice to people, or sway a judge to believe in their client. As for a CEO, they are responsible for creating, planning, implementing, and integrating the strategic direction of an organization. I believe that the most important occupation that we need are medical doctors. Medicine does not know everything but from the years of schooling doctors obtain, they know more about human anatomy than the average joe would. Obviously, we can say the other two important occupations indeed have a great purpose, but they would only have a specific knowledge set for helping people and creating better environments and etcetera; they don’t acquire the proper training to save lives and such. The theoretical perspective that I apply toward my views are through functionalism. This is because everything is society has a proper order and everyone contributes to society in some way. Often there are some outliers but overall it is how society works. For example, we need store managers to operate grocery stores and employ people to stock shelves. How do doctors obtain certain materials? Well, it is by those who are in charge of …show more content…
They aren’t just giving food to a homeless person, but are setting goals and achieving them. Nonetheless, the organization reduced the proportion of people living in poverty on less than $1.25 per day and helped 600 million people. Also, from the year 1990 to 2008 the poverty rate dropped from 47% to 24% despite the growth in population. So, as shown they have made a tremendous difference in society and are encouraging others to do so to! In a way I have always known that most people remain in poverty because of specialized circumstances and cannot afford certain things. This isn’t all their fault. I think that people sometimes get a bad reputation because they look a certain way or weren’t taught certain things to obtain a higher role in society. I think it is a wonderful thing that people are helping others. What kind of people would we be if we didn’t help one another? I think if they receive the proper funds and items to help others not live in poverty, then they will succeed. From the look of it, it already has so much influence and is helping others get jobs and what not, hence reducing poverty. As I researched some networks that help poverty, I came across care.org, which enables us to help donate money and to put it to work in different civilizations all over the world. There are so many organizations that we can, as individuals, contribute to. As for endpoverty2015.org, there