fredag den 5. august 2011
Socio-Economic Status and Education
What I found out by our visit to Holmes Elementary was how important it actually means to be poor or rich. A large proportion of the students came to school without breakfast the family was so poor that they could not give their children breakfast or lunch. But I really look up to the Principle. He does a great job with the children in terms of food he makes sure that the children get food at school. The reason I mention the food is that food is an important factor for the student to learn, so they can concentrate, learn more easily and naturally not be hungry because no child deserves to be hungry during the day and night.
Another thing I've noticed is that the poor families on average do not even have ONE book in the entire home according to a statistic from the Principle of Holmes Elementary. These factors and many others do the poor far worse they have, for example not the same opportunities as a rich student to choose the most expensive and best college. That means, the poor students must take a cheap college which means that the college is not that good as a rich college. This is just few examples for why poor families and poor student don’t make it as good as the middle class or the rich people.
Of course we have our problems in Denmark, but nothing compared to some of the examples I just gave. In Denmark, all have the right to receive benefits from the state and which should be enough to live reasonably well, obviously it will be hard for a single mother and three children, but no one goes to bed hungry or goes to school without food.
Moreover, the costing of schools, high schools and universities is nothing in Denmark. You can go there absolutely free, you actually get what we call the state education aid, which is money the state gives you per month which is 500 - 1000 $ after you are 18 years and this wealth process system works because we pay high tax. And public schools have roughly the same standard and therefore students will be treated in school and not have the same problems as they have in the U.S. Plus, the individual learn to get his students to the library to borrow one or two books at least once a week.
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