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When children are forsaken

Posted 12-22-2011 at 08:48 AM by zthatzmanz28


Posted on my Get Your Snark On at blogspot.com:

[FONT=Times New Roman]I suppose it is the thing to do during Christmas. We all learned our lesson after watching Dickens [I]A Christmas Carol[/I] and being a Scrooge, we all get uppity about helping others during the holiday season.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]We all run out to staff the Salvation Army kettles, drop a few dollars on St. Jude, and even manage to send in a contribution to a rescue shelter or two. We sit around watching TV shows that make us feel warm and fuzzy, and may be even a tear or two. My wife and I watched the Mitch Albom made for TV show [I]Have a Little Faith[/I] on the Lifetime Channel. It is a real tear-jerker about learing the meaning of who is our neighbor. It ends with a lesson learned, the passing of an icon, and finding that something within our hearts to forgive and accept people can and want to change.Then the holiday season ends like it usually does--there are still thousands of people who need help and we get on with our everyday living.[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]I have been posting on the City Data forum lately on the education board. I have been discussing the impact poverty has on the education of our children. I say "our" because whatever community you live in, the children are indeed OUR responsibility--at least so far as watching over them and keeping them safe by providing for their education and having services /programs available to assist them in the transition from adolescence towards adulthood. [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]As a teacher, I have seen severe deficiencies in bother services to and programs for children living in less than stellar conditions. All these children live in an environment that is beyond their control. Many no longer have parents around and are being raised by relatives; typically a grandmother serves as the single parent. The last thing children who are living for the moment want to do is school. Especially a school where they are less a person because they come from a home where there is no support or encouragement. The schools and their communities all too quickly adopt the attitude if mom and dad do not care, why should we or anyone else?[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]Children from lower income settings tend to perform lower than their peers academically and socially. Not that this is a surprise—if it is YOU need to get out of your cave more often—but what is a surprise is that these children are slowly and systematically being denied educational opportunities. But you say:[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman] They are going to school![/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman] They are in the classroom! [/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]They even get FREE breakfast and food![/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]WHAT DO YOU MEAN THEY ARE BEING DENIED? They get more than my kids do…[/FONT]
[FONT=Times New Roman]While most of these points may be true, the poverty class student still lags behind their peer. Sure some of the blame belongs to their domestic situation. But an even larger part of the blame belongs to the educational system. The system has realigned itself to create a world where the poor / poverty child will be left behind.[/FONT]
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