The natural schema of the word poverty is usually associated with the people who pay the bills in the family and can’t seem to go anywhere or enjoy life. But why is there so much focus on those who pay the bills and work? What about those who are trying to get an education (but lose their faith in the system far too often) and are eager to learn new traits and skills so they can persevere later in life? This isn’t a new occurrence or norm, either. The extremely low confidence level that some students possess due to socio-economic troubles is spreading like wildfire. It’s all around this incoming generation and they won’t even realize there’s a problem in society that is specifically regarding their lives. A light must shine down on this epidemic
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The poverty and wealth gaps have always been slowly becoming wider and wider even with reform programs occurring so when we look back to the late 1800s, we can see the early stages of the gap. When immigrants came into America, they often started off as the poorest of the poor (ProQuest Staff “Poverty Timeline” ). Some came in and stayed in poverty for life and some got lucky and made it out of the slums. While the poor continued to become even more poor, the middle and upper classes stayed the same, unintentionally causing a gap to form. Since it was immigrants that became apart of the lower class, racial differences began to arise economically. Most immigrants came in through major cities such as New York or San Francisco, making work and the ability to gain money more scarce than it already was. But this left a lasting mark on society, because today most minorities within urban areas are usually a part of the “Extreme Poverty” group in our society (Carbone II “Race, Class, and Oppression: Solutions for Active Learning and Literacy in the Classroom”) This gap would eventually cause many difficult inequalities in society; specifically within the education …show more content…
But what we do know is that if we continue down this path, then we will fall down into the abyss called the wealth gap and our students will suffer. The wealthy (which are few these days) will most likely end up becoming the only educated people in society, making everyone else’s potential get thrown down the toilet. But there is something we can do and some people have actually started to do it. It’s all about encouraging the students to believe that they can and will graduate high school and, eventually, college (Thompson “How One School is Fighting Poverty”). Their belief in themselves is what’s going to help drive them to succeed in life and break the cycle created by the wealth
The poverty and wealth gaps have always been slowly becoming wider and wider even with reform programs occurring so when we look back to the late 1800s, we can see the early stages of the gap. When immigrants came into America, they often started off as the poorest of the poor (ProQuest Staff “Poverty Timeline” ). Some came in and stayed in poverty for life and some got lucky and made it out of the slums. While the poor continued to become even more poor, the middle and upper classes stayed the same, unintentionally causing a gap to form. Since it was immigrants that became apart of the lower class, racial differences began to arise economically. Most immigrants came in through major cities such as New York or San Francisco, making work and the ability to gain money more scarce than it already was. But this left a lasting mark on society, because today most minorities within urban areas are usually a part of the “Extreme Poverty” group in our society (Carbone II “Race, Class, and Oppression: Solutions for Active Learning and Literacy in the Classroom”) This gap would eventually cause many difficult inequalities in society; specifically within the education …show more content…
But what we do know is that if we continue down this path, then we will fall down into the abyss called the wealth gap and our students will suffer. The wealthy (which are few these days) will most likely end up becoming the only educated people in society, making everyone else’s potential get thrown down the toilet. But there is something we can do and some people have actually started to do it. It’s all about encouraging the students to believe that they can and will graduate high school and, eventually, college (Thompson “How One School is Fighting Poverty”). Their belief in themselves is what’s going to help drive them to succeed in life and break the cycle created by the wealth