Poverty vs. Education

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The problem of today’s society is the fight against poverty. With many societies today having low-income areas, education seems to be the first thing to be put on hold. Pakistan, the second country with the highest number of children out of schools, has severe poverty in which people are only living off two dollars a day (Haroon, 2011, Impact on Education on Poverty Reduction). This example shows the direct correlation that poverty has on one’s education. Through this correlation, one can see how such factors can keep children in impoverished homes throughout their lives. Education is a social problem in the mix of poverty. In many low-income cities, a good education is very rare for many leaders of the household. This lack of education usually results in generational poverty. In other words, children end up following in their parent’s footsteps by dropping out of school at a young age. Marty Strange, a writer for Kappan Magazine, wrote an article called “Finding Fairness for Rural Students”. In this article, she states that schools are poorly funded and have inadequate supplies and educators. This problem came about because most public schools are funded by property taxes. But, the homes in low-income communities give little money in which these schools receive from property taxes. In results, these schools in those communities end up being poorly funded by the state and cannot afford good supplies or teachers. Strange gives the example of a school in Arkansas that was underfunded. In this situation of Lakeview, there was an uncertified math teacher that taught all the mathematics classes in that high school. However, the teacher only received $10,000 a year for teaching all those classes. Strange stated that “he has an insufficient number of calculators for his trigonometry class, too few electrical outlets, no compasses, and one chalkboard, a computer lacking
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