Poor Schools Need To Succeed By Prudence L. Carter

In many places, the education systems are broken due to lack of necessary materials. These schools have a scarcity of the supplies needed to effectively teach their students, and the students do not have the physical requirements at home such as food, shelter, and clothing. With these challenges placed upon the shoulders of the students, they will not be able to get a solid education.
In the article, “Poor Schools Need to Encompass More Than Instruction to Succeed,” the author, Prudence L. Carter, blazons her belief that poor schools need to do more than provide their students with a strong education, but also basic needs such as food, shelter, protection, and healthcare. Many schools face poverty in their communities. These are complex …show more content…
In her article, Carter clearly plays off of the audience's pathos, hoping to evoke pity, sadness, and compassion towards the school children. She uses heartbreaking evidence to emphasize what the children do not have, hoping the audience will sympathize with and aid the students by providing those basic needs for them. She paints vivid pictures in her audiences’ minds with word choices such as “homeless, poverty, instability, and hunger.” Carter knows how to use her writing skills to fight for children’s education, and basic …show more content…
When a family is living in penury it’s unfair and unrealistic to ask them to donate to the community when they need all of the help that they can get to take care of their own personal crucial needs. Weiss’s viewpoint is the most realistic; her focus is to improve the learning conditions at school. Carter’s cause is the student's home life, which is very honorable to want to improve a child’s life at home, however, the school’s main responsibility is to teach their students, and provide them with the necessary education that they need. Therefore, because education is the main focus of the school system, they should first focus on bettering classroom conditions, and then bettering conditions at home. Orzoco’s fight for educational reform is for a completely different cause. She is fighting specifically for hispanic and non-English speaking students. This is a worthy cause, and is important to education, however, basic needs such as food, shelter, and clothing should be met before a language barrier is