Posted on 01/16/2015 10:51:32 AM PST by Citizen Zed
More than a third of public school students in Connecticut are in poverty, according to a new bulletin.
As for the rest of the country, the Southern Education Foundation said low-income students are now a majority.
Mississippi led the nation with 71 percent. It was followed by New Mexico at 68 percent.
“No longer can we consider the problems and needs of low-income students simply a matter of fairness,” wrote Steve Suitts, SEF's vice president. “Their success or failure in the public schools will determine the entire body of human capital and educational potential that the nation will possess in the future.”
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I can think of a way to drastically increase or reduce that number: Just change the dollar threshold that makes one “poor”.
To me, if you live in a home where you have your own bed and the floors are not dirt, you’re not poor.
But, on the other hand, 9% of households in Connecticut have an income over $200K.
Qhestion number one:
Could you please define “poor”?
In KY I live in a much nicer place than I did in Seattle. My payments on my 15 year mortgage are lower than the monthly property taxes on the Seattle place.
I guess “poor” is relative.
YET we spend more money per student than ever before. WE (taxpayers) buy them computers, ipads, pay for useless administrators and teachers, common core, so much junk, and they still can’t teach students to spell their names.
AND YET somehow importing the poorest and illiterate in this hemisphere will fix all the problems.
1 The typical poor household, as defined by the government, has a car and air conditioning, two color televisions, cable or satellite TV, a DVD player, and a VCR. If there are children, especially boys, the family has a game system, such as an Xbox or PlayStation.
2 In the kitchen, the household has a refrigerator, an oven and stove, and a microwave. Other household conveniences include a clothes washer, clothes dryer, ceiling fans, a cordless phone, and a coffee maker.
3 The home of the typical poor family is in good repair and is not overcrowded. In fact, the typical average poor American has more living space in his home than the average (non-poor) European has.
4 By its own report, the typical poor family was not hungry, was able to obtain medical care when needed, and had sufficient funds during the past year to meet all essential needs.
http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/what-is-poverty
IOW Poor =/= poor.
America’s progressives are really making advancements in bringing everyone into their camp
When the policy of the govt is to import illiterate peasants and their kids from the Third World..what do they expect will happen to the quality of our school students? Then heavily tax the middle class to support the welfare and other expenses of these imports...along with the already large dependent class and it is not a formula for national success.
And, contrary to the Hollywood propaganda campaign, if there are hungry children in America it is due to parental neglect, not poverty.
I can attest that your statement has a lot of truth to it.
I used to deliver furniture to the poor, as part of my involvement with the St. Vincent DePaul society, in Connecticut.
We mostly delivered furniture to apartments with TVs and air conditioners and telephones. Some of the apartments had big TVs, causing my fellow deliverymen to mutter “they don’t need this furniture”
The exceptions were for a few cases where we delivered furniture to men who had just gotten out of prison and were at a halfway house.
Someone should do survey on how many of those same poor children are wearing $150 a pair Jordan sneakers.
How can there be hungry children in America in the era of Obama??? Record numbers are getting food stamps. Schools feed kids breakfast and lunch for free. Schools send kids home with backpacks.full of food for the weekend.
I think hunger in America only happens if a Republican is president. As we know republicans are cruel and heartless and only want to cut back government programs which help people. (Sarcasm)
If my family lived a gub'mint subsidized life, we could live comfortably with just a small amount of income from work.
Well, better raise taxes!
Well nothing left to do now for the students except to vote ‘DemoRat for their free education. That cheap healthcare worked out so splendid for them so why not....pay up suckas.
I assume Conn gives out approx $100/person/month in food stamps.
Plus free school grub for the critters at breakfast and lunch.
And if Connecticut’s poor look like Indiana’s poor, most appear quite well fed.
Our parish usually doles out free food for the homeless twice a week. MOST of these clowns wore newer, better clothes than I did and drove good cars.
This “poverty” nonsense is full obamaturd.
Connecticut is a bad state to choose for these numbers, as it has an unusually high number of private and parochial school students. Many parents of little more than modest means manage to send their kids to parochial school. My folks were middle class, and with a scholarship I went to a private prep school. Homeschooling regs are also MUCH more relaxed in CT than in neighboring RI and MA, with Rhode Island requiring lesson plans be submitted to the Revolutionary Committee on Public Saffety or some such.
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