Since the Great Depression there has been an increase of homelessness in the United States. As of 2013, there were more than one million homeless students were enrolled in the United States public school system (Rahman, 2015). An issue like this has impacted several families which has impacted younger children being focus in school and/or being able to remain in school. However, numerous programs and communities have come together to make an enough to combat this use. This paper will examine McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program and how it alleviates the crisis of education for youth homelessness. This social problem is highlighted many young children at the minimum age of six experience being homeless for several
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Fantuzzo, Whitney A. LeBoeuf, Chin-Chih Chen, Heather L. Rouse and Dennis P. Culhane found: experiencing homelessness, school mobility, or both homelessness and school mobility had stronger associations with problems in social engagement than with problems in task engagement (p.397). I chose to focus on this social program because the money that is handled through a third party and granted to schools or services in the community have influenced countless children. This program combats the issue of education for youth homelessness and aids these children through instructed activities such as tutors or other educational services. A child’s source of knowledge should not suffer or be in jeopardy based upon a living situation that is beyond their control. It is important to have this program like this that promotes retaining young homeless students in their “school of origin” to avoid these children from dealing with school mobility and learning difficult. I plan to first connect the functionalism and social closure theory to comprehend the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program. Secondly, provide background information about the program as well as addressing the strengths and …show more content…
Based off class discussion, functionalism theory associates with groups within the same social system whose parts work together to benefit the whole. The social problem begins when the failure of some part to fulfill its function, which interferes with the smooth functioning of the system. According to Peter M. Miller (2011) the most common causes of the various forms of homelessness are insufficient affordable housing and shortages of jobs that pay just wage (p.310). Miller (2011) mentioned, “poor families are most at risk of becoming homeless, in part because their limited supplies of economic capital tend to be accompanied by shortages in social capital to help them get through difficult times” (p.310). The functionalism theory helps explain the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program because the community/school systems uses the funds from this program to work with children to make up for their families who experienced shortages of jobs that pay just wage that may have resulted in homelessness. Social Closure refers to the process where groups exclude other members so groups can maintain/preserve their resources. Mimicking from the Coleman report, schools, communities, and families are the social aspects that are associated with the social closure. This theory can be implied to explain the
Fantuzzo, Whitney A. LeBoeuf, Chin-Chih Chen, Heather L. Rouse and Dennis P. Culhane found: experiencing homelessness, school mobility, or both homelessness and school mobility had stronger associations with problems in social engagement than with problems in task engagement (p.397). I chose to focus on this social program because the money that is handled through a third party and granted to schools or services in the community have influenced countless children. This program combats the issue of education for youth homelessness and aids these children through instructed activities such as tutors or other educational services. A child’s source of knowledge should not suffer or be in jeopardy based upon a living situation that is beyond their control. It is important to have this program like this that promotes retaining young homeless students in their “school of origin” to avoid these children from dealing with school mobility and learning difficult. I plan to first connect the functionalism and social closure theory to comprehend the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program. Secondly, provide background information about the program as well as addressing the strengths and …show more content…
Based off class discussion, functionalism theory associates with groups within the same social system whose parts work together to benefit the whole. The social problem begins when the failure of some part to fulfill its function, which interferes with the smooth functioning of the system. According to Peter M. Miller (2011) the most common causes of the various forms of homelessness are insufficient affordable housing and shortages of jobs that pay just wage (p.310). Miller (2011) mentioned, “poor families are most at risk of becoming homeless, in part because their limited supplies of economic capital tend to be accompanied by shortages in social capital to help them get through difficult times” (p.310). The functionalism theory helps explain the McKinney-Vento Education for Homeless Children and Youth Program because the community/school systems uses the funds from this program to work with children to make up for their families who experienced shortages of jobs that pay just wage that may have resulted in homelessness. Social Closure refers to the process where groups exclude other members so groups can maintain/preserve their resources. Mimicking from the Coleman report, schools, communities, and families are the social aspects that are associated with the social closure. This theory can be implied to explain the