Educational Issues: Poverty
First of all I really enjoyed this presentation because there was no lecturing involved. Even though they were going over something completely new to us, they found a way to make it completely engaging by moving us around the room and running us through different activities.
On the note of poverty, there were a couple things that really stood out to me. The first was how difficult it is to live on off a minimum wage salary. A lot of the time, these people have to choose to not pay for something each month. Stemming off that, I can't imagine being a kid and living like that, having to worry about having the power shut off on you. I completely understand why a student living in poverty like this would come to class without their homework done and not motivated to do work in class. You can't be motivated to do school work when you're always worried about being hungry. As teachers we have to understand what some of these kids go though everyday and try to help to the best of our abilities.
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