Majority of U.S. public school students are in poverty!

What is poverty? It is the condition where people's basic needs for food, clothing, and shelter are not being met. Poverty is a growing problem within our world. According to some statistics, nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. Can you imagine yourself walking on a street, meeting people who couldn’t even read or write? This is terribly shocking.

Did you know that the world is currently going through an education crisis? Yes, it’s true. More than thirty million children are growing up in poverty. In one low-income community, there was only one book for every three hundred children. Children living in poverty were forced to leave school because they are more likely to have to work or take care for their family members. Dropout rates of sixteen to twenty-four years old students who come from low income families are seven times more likely to drop out than those from families with higher incomes.

A new study shows that the majority of public school children in the United States are living in poverty. These children came from low-income families. “The United states must make improving educational support for low-income students a priority”, said the researchers at the Southern Education Foundation.

The United States should be serious about fixing the troubled parts of its education system. Schools in high-poverty districts should also receive the same amount of public money as schools in wealthy neighborhoods. The United States should have a higher standards for their education system, which would eventually allows every individual to be able to go school and graduate.