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Emilee Davis
Professor Kellner
ENGL 0099
November 8, 2019
Poverty on High
A child’s education is an important factor today for society. A parent wants what is best

for their child even though somethings can get in the way for them to do so. One of those things

can be poverty. The poverty of a child's parents affects their child's education. In unproper living

situations, it puts a strain on that child's perspective on having a healthy lifestyle. The poverty of

students is them having nothing putting them at a disadvantage. When compared to other high-

end students they are left with the lack of fewer literary resources to expand their knowledge.

Something linked to poverty is unemployment rates being sky-high where children have no

control of the place, they are being put in. Therefore, physical and mental development is not

like other students. Their ability to use their social skills is reduced. Motivation is a key source

for improving life, but without the proper example set by the parents, it tends to cause stress

among the younger. The thought of never knowing what one child goes through from if they

have got fed to the necessities to care for that child. Poverty has taken over in many aspects.

Students attendance dropping to no ability to concentrate in the classroom. The poverty of a

child’s parents does affect their overall success in school.

In “Economic Conditions can Impede Education Gains,” Anna Hall expresses how

student’s poverty situations effects their ability to receive the proper education needed overall.

While there is an extreme lack of resources in homes with poverty, often victims of abuse and

neglect experience high levels of stress from lack of care. The article's main focus takes place in
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Georgia where poverty continues to improve in educational ways but also still has challenges to

be faced. Georgia is a state that doesn't want to watch their community and students fail.

According to Gaye Smith, “What is so troubling about employment is post-recession

Georgia is that too many of the newly created jobs pay low wages with benefits that fail to meet

even basic family expenses” (The Brunswick News). The partnership’s forming to insure to push

Georgia in the right direction of success. The lack of employment parents with several children

to care for. Therefore, a family plays a key role in a child's source of care and gives the child

someone they rely on till they can provide for themselves. When looking at a child's parents and

their poverty situation, it is the leading factor to student’s success in school.


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Work Cited

"Economic conditions can impede education gains." Brunswick News [Brunswick, GA], 20

Aug.2015. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints,

https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A426022353/OVIC?u=ucinc_main&sid=OVIC&xid=625

00498. Accessed 15 Nov. 2019.

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