Hi I'm Allen Stewart,
I believe there is a growing problem in America. Blacks and Mexicans families need to find a way to keep more children in school in our poor communities.
Impoverished Educational Attitude
There is stress in America due to the current economic conditions, but for the children growing up in impoverished America, life goes on as usual. Nothing has changed for the kid in the ghetto. The ghetto child grows up in a household where money is scarce all the time, the ghetto child’s life has been unaffected by the economic changes taking place in America. Households with one working parent, a deficient provision for support with childcare, teens left on his or her own in many homes, and there is no adult for the ghetto child to turn to for help with homework. A child struggling in their classes many times may feel hopeless with nowhere to turn. Yet the stress stricken existence, the hunger filled days of survival, the lonely times with no one to turn to for help, keeps life in its relative normal state for the ghetto child where the lack of money is a daily problem. The financial stress that has the middle class worried over their 401(k)’s, life and medical insurance, emergency funds, checking and saving accounts, has about as much of a chance of influencing the ghetto child culturally as a prostitute walking back and forth on the streets in a ghetto neighborhood has of influencing a child in Beverly Hills.
Drug dealers, drug users, pimps, prostitutes, gang bangers, and alcoholics, results from two conditions of a culturally impoverished educational attitude. Firstly, poverty, one-parent households with one working parent or adult in the home making minimum wage, and secondly nurturing, the lack of a guiding influence from a loving and well intentioned adult during a fundamental time in these peoples’ childhoods.
“Junkies, alcoholics, and mean kids walking along Vermont looking to throw a punch.”
Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary
Rose had both of his parents at home to guide him, but what about the child that comes home to an empty house, or a house full of little brothers and sisters to care for, and nothing in the house to eat but some crackers and mustard. His or her mother is at work, and there is no one to call. The child tries to study but cannot keep up in school. The ghetto child sees the dealers wearing new cloths, sees that they always have money and never see them in school, and he or she begins to think, maybe there is an easier way . . . than school. With no adult there to guide this child, the mental state of a culturally impoverished educational attitude begins to form.
The majority of children living where the junkies, drug pushers, alcoholics and gangs live, which are the impoverished ghettos of America, are Black and Mexican children. The reason their parents are living there is because on lack of income. Most of these parents have little education, and are only able to get minimum wage jobs, so for those single parents wanting to have a better life without turning to the ways of the streets, they work two jobs leaving the child on their own or under the supervision of an older sibling. The nurturing, which all children need, is not present in the home. The lack of nurturing in the home does not stop the need for nurturing by the child. The fulfillment of the nurturing needed in the ghetto child’s life many times comes through gang involvement or through the drug dealers.
The environment that both of these subcultures thrive in fosters an attitude towards education of being something for punks and nerds. Gangs give the child a support system and feelings that someone has their back. The child believes that the gang will supply his or her needs; the child feels they do not need an education the gang will be there for them. The pushers put money in the child’s hand and make the child feel that he or she does not need an education, after all the parent does not make the money the child is making selling drugs.
Poverty and lack of nurturing, causes a culturally perpetuated, financial ineptitude, which leads to an impoverished educational attitude in ghetto children that continues from generation to generation. The problem with a child with an impoverished educational attitude does not end in the ghetto; moreover, it flows in to all communities in the form of violence, and drugs. An impoverished educational attitude does not mean the child is not getting educated. The ghetto child learns how to sell drugs to the middle class kids, he or she learns how to break in to middle and upper class home’s, and kidnap middle and upper class girls and turn them into prostitutes. The problem of the child with an impoverished educational attitude affects the lives of others living a world away from the gangster life of the ghetto child . . . in their minds.
“Many people think human trafficking only happens in other countries. However, this modern-day form of slavery is increasingly an American problem.”
Mark Martin, CBN News Reporter
The Impoverishment of the ghetto fuels the fire of inspiration for a better life in the ghetto child’s mind. Literal hunger and the lack of nurturing fan the flames of that fire, the ghetto child’s failure in school tosses the final log of hope of finishing school, getting a job, and having a better life into the fire for consumption along with all inspiration of accomplishment through education.
“It is an unfortunate fact of our psychic lives that the images that surround us as we grow up-no matter how we may scorn them later-give shape to our deepest needs and longings”
Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary
It is the parents in the impoverished Black and Mexican communities, which collapse to the effects of economic changes taking place in America, and must find new ways to support their families by reposition themselves in their jobs, or by repositioning the little money they have. The ghetto child feels the effect of economic change, less food in the home or no parent in the home when needed, creating an opportunity for the struggling ghetto child to develop reasons to look to the subculture in their communities rather than school.
“In 2010, 5.1% of white students dropped out of high school compared to 8% of Black students, 15.1% of Hispanic students, 4.2% of Asian American students and 12.4% of American Indian/Alaska native students.”
Carla Amurao, Fact Sheet: Is the Dropout Problem Real?
I believe there is a growing problem in America. Blacks and Mexicans families need to find a way to keep more children in school in our poor communities.
Impoverished Educational Attitude
There is stress in America due to the current economic conditions, but for the children growing up in impoverished America, life goes on as usual. Nothing has changed for the kid in the ghetto. The ghetto child grows up in a household where money is scarce all the time, the ghetto child’s life has been unaffected by the economic changes taking place in America. Households with one working parent, a deficient provision for support with childcare, teens left on his or her own in many homes, and there is no adult for the ghetto child to turn to for help with homework. A child struggling in their classes many times may feel hopeless with nowhere to turn. Yet the stress stricken existence, the hunger filled days of survival, the lonely times with no one to turn to for help, keeps life in its relative normal state for the ghetto child where the lack of money is a daily problem. The financial stress that has the middle class worried over their 401(k)’s, life and medical insurance, emergency funds, checking and saving accounts, has about as much of a chance of influencing the ghetto child culturally as a prostitute walking back and forth on the streets in a ghetto neighborhood has of influencing a child in Beverly Hills.
Drug dealers, drug users, pimps, prostitutes, gang bangers, and alcoholics, results from two conditions of a culturally impoverished educational attitude. Firstly, poverty, one-parent households with one working parent or adult in the home making minimum wage, and secondly nurturing, the lack of a guiding influence from a loving and well intentioned adult during a fundamental time in these peoples’ childhoods.
“Junkies, alcoholics, and mean kids walking along Vermont looking to throw a punch.”
Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary
Rose had both of his parents at home to guide him, but what about the child that comes home to an empty house, or a house full of little brothers and sisters to care for, and nothing in the house to eat but some crackers and mustard. His or her mother is at work, and there is no one to call. The child tries to study but cannot keep up in school. The ghetto child sees the dealers wearing new cloths, sees that they always have money and never see them in school, and he or she begins to think, maybe there is an easier way . . . than school. With no adult there to guide this child, the mental state of a culturally impoverished educational attitude begins to form.
The majority of children living where the junkies, drug pushers, alcoholics and gangs live, which are the impoverished ghettos of America, are Black and Mexican children. The reason their parents are living there is because on lack of income. Most of these parents have little education, and are only able to get minimum wage jobs, so for those single parents wanting to have a better life without turning to the ways of the streets, they work two jobs leaving the child on their own or under the supervision of an older sibling. The nurturing, which all children need, is not present in the home. The lack of nurturing in the home does not stop the need for nurturing by the child. The fulfillment of the nurturing needed in the ghetto child’s life many times comes through gang involvement or through the drug dealers.
The environment that both of these subcultures thrive in fosters an attitude towards education of being something for punks and nerds. Gangs give the child a support system and feelings that someone has their back. The child believes that the gang will supply his or her needs; the child feels they do not need an education the gang will be there for them. The pushers put money in the child’s hand and make the child feel that he or she does not need an education, after all the parent does not make the money the child is making selling drugs.
Poverty and lack of nurturing, causes a culturally perpetuated, financial ineptitude, which leads to an impoverished educational attitude in ghetto children that continues from generation to generation. The problem with a child with an impoverished educational attitude does not end in the ghetto; moreover, it flows in to all communities in the form of violence, and drugs. An impoverished educational attitude does not mean the child is not getting educated. The ghetto child learns how to sell drugs to the middle class kids, he or she learns how to break in to middle and upper class home’s, and kidnap middle and upper class girls and turn them into prostitutes. The problem of the child with an impoverished educational attitude affects the lives of others living a world away from the gangster life of the ghetto child . . . in their minds.
“Many people think human trafficking only happens in other countries. However, this modern-day form of slavery is increasingly an American problem.”
Mark Martin, CBN News Reporter
The Impoverishment of the ghetto fuels the fire of inspiration for a better life in the ghetto child’s mind. Literal hunger and the lack of nurturing fan the flames of that fire, the ghetto child’s failure in school tosses the final log of hope of finishing school, getting a job, and having a better life into the fire for consumption along with all inspiration of accomplishment through education.
“It is an unfortunate fact of our psychic lives that the images that surround us as we grow up-no matter how we may scorn them later-give shape to our deepest needs and longings”
Mike Rose, Lives on the Boundary
It is the parents in the impoverished Black and Mexican communities, which collapse to the effects of economic changes taking place in America, and must find new ways to support their families by reposition themselves in their jobs, or by repositioning the little money they have. The ghetto child feels the effect of economic change, less food in the home or no parent in the home when needed, creating an opportunity for the struggling ghetto child to develop reasons to look to the subculture in their communities rather than school.
“In 2010, 5.1% of white students dropped out of high school compared to 8% of Black students, 15.1% of Hispanic students, 4.2% of Asian American students and 12.4% of American Indian/Alaska native students.”
Carla Amurao, Fact Sheet: Is the Dropout Problem Real?
