Education: A Way Out?
Poverty is hunger. Poverty is homelessness. Poverty is not having a job. Poverty is not being able to get an education. Poverty has many different faces to many different people. It has been estimated that in 1998 1.2 billion people worldwide lived off one dollar per day and in 1999 2.8 billion people lived off two dollars per day. The amount of living money has increased, but the amount of people struggling has also increased. These statistics show that there is obviously a nationwide problem with poverty. People who suffer from poverty often lack adequate food, shelter, health, and education. Education is the most valuable thing to have this day and age and a lack of it often leads to poverty. Without an education most people get left behind.People living in poverty obviously feel less educated than middle and upper class society because of the discrimination against them in the lack of schooling they receive. Students living in low-income districts often attend overcrowded, under funded schools offering inadequate educations. A fifteen-year-old girl from Chicago toured a ninety-year-old inner-city high school and she stated, "It was a big knock to the head for me. It was shocking to see how much they were lack
Everyone should have an equal opportunity to obtain an education. A strong education brings poor people out of poverty; however, an inadequate education decreases your chance of getting a good job, which therefore causes you to remain in poverty. The people who are born into poverty have no choice in the matter. When a child is born into poverty, he or she is more likely to be poor when they grow up. There is a cycle to this and it is hard to get out of. As Earl Shorris stated, " 'a surround of forces' causes this cycle". These forces include hunger, isolation, illness, racism, and neighbors among many others. These forces exert themselves on the poor and wrap themselves around them, causing them the feeling of no escape. They think that no matter what they do or what they change in their life won't make a difference. If a low-income mother with an inadequate high school education has a son, he will feel that he really doesn't have much to live up to because of his mother's past. He will also be denied an adequate education because his mother was unable to get out of the "surround of forces". In general, poor children tend to perform more poorly in school and are more likely to end up in crime, sick,
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