What is poverty? poverty is when a person is really poor, it's when a person live paycheck to paycheck. Poverty is barley being able to provide enough money for rent or food. Being in the lower class or being in poverty has Many huge disadvantages but we'll only focus on just one, education. In this essay the reader will be observing the difference between education in the higher social class and lower social class, and how they are unequal. In Stephanie Mencimer's article "What If Everything About You Knew About Poverty Was Wrong" she talks about how we think we know everything about poverty, but we don't. The only thing we know is from what we learn or read from different articles we read. But in mencimer's article its different she actually
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Garland shows all the disadvantages between black and white people by giving us two families from different social classes, the kalians a white family and the lynches a black family. The Kalians are able to give their children anything while the Lynches aren't. when reading her Article, it says "you can do a lot of extra things with extra money" (131). What this does is show that white people are starting in a higher class automatically while black people are automatically in a lower class and either stay in the same class or work their way up. But depending on what social class a person is in, it effects their education, when I was living in Louisiana, I was in the lower class and we did not have a lot of opportunity to succeed like I said in the earlier paragraph the teachers couldn't teach because the students were not discipline and the textbooks were in horrible conditions. But I also went to school in a higher-class school Rossview high school and automatically saw the difference in this school I was behind for a little bit because I just came from a school that was so far behind, each student got a new computer to use for the school year and we had ACT reviews. Going to this school …show more content…
How in each subject like math, science, history and etc… the percentage is about 20 percent higher high poverty school, And how it affects children cognitively. (Jensen, introduction) When I had to internship at an elementary I could tell the children were becoming more confident in what they were learning because like it said in the book we should praise the children when they are right. It will make them want to learn and empower them to never quit. Which is really different from Woodlawn because they didn't do that or in other words couldn't, but the thing is. You have to start praising and empowering them at a young age and at home too. Some children can't get that at home and some parents will discourage them instead, so they have that mindset at school too. But you learn most at home not at school, so it's up to the
Garland shows all the disadvantages between black and white people by giving us two families from different social classes, the kalians a white family and the lynches a black family. The Kalians are able to give their children anything while the Lynches aren't. when reading her Article, it says "you can do a lot of extra things with extra money" (131). What this does is show that white people are starting in a higher class automatically while black people are automatically in a lower class and either stay in the same class or work their way up. But depending on what social class a person is in, it effects their education, when I was living in Louisiana, I was in the lower class and we did not have a lot of opportunity to succeed like I said in the earlier paragraph the teachers couldn't teach because the students were not discipline and the textbooks were in horrible conditions. But I also went to school in a higher-class school Rossview high school and automatically saw the difference in this school I was behind for a little bit because I just came from a school that was so far behind, each student got a new computer to use for the school year and we had ACT reviews. Going to this school …show more content…
How in each subject like math, science, history and etc… the percentage is about 20 percent higher high poverty school, And how it affects children cognitively. (Jensen, introduction) When I had to internship at an elementary I could tell the children were becoming more confident in what they were learning because like it said in the book we should praise the children when they are right. It will make them want to learn and empower them to never quit. Which is really different from Woodlawn because they didn't do that or in other words couldn't, but the thing is. You have to start praising and empowering them at a young age and at home too. Some children can't get that at home and some parents will discourage them instead, so they have that mindset at school too. But you learn most at home not at school, so it's up to the