Comments on: Blog Action Day: Poverty and Education in America

By: Bill Bartmann

Bill Bartmann — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 00:29:20 +0000

Cool site, love the info.

By: Juan Wang

Juan Wang — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 04:05:24 +0000

Thanks for the posting. I love the insight. :) Very respiring~

By: Beritu

Beritu — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:13:59 +0000

Thank you Judi and to all. This separate and unequal education has been going since the beginning. Politicians talk about it all the time specially during election but never! never! try to correct the problem from the roots.

Now that young citizens with energy and good judgment are talking about it I am hopping the public school would be corrected and becomes a real school than a zoo to trapped children.

I am hopping that Americans will spreak in one voice about this unequal educational situation which is leading to unequal economic situation now than ever!

Please do not stop! Bring it in the open not only the internet.

“Quality Edication for all Americans in America or no Education for all”

America has to stop discriminating her children knowingly. It is a curse.

I am with you! God Bless You for your good heart and judgment!

By: honslow2000

honslow2000 — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 17:10:31 +0000

Reading this blog was really quite stunning as I had no idea that it cost money in the States to even apply for college. I was lucky enough to feel the benefits of the UCAS system- where you can apply for at least three Universities for free. Worryingl however we are moving more and more towards privitisation of Higher Education. We no longer have our tuition fees paid for and the Government tries to get round this by providing low interest loans. That doesn’t change thousands of pounds worth of debt at the end of your degree though. Reading the above though makes me realise that we have a way to go before things are as bad as that (though maybe not too bad).
We do have exactly the same problems when it comes to high schools though. There was a real hope when Labour came to power ten years ago that more money would be funded into state secondary schools but it just hasn’t really happened…we get smoke and mirrors about more tests, less tests….anything but more money.

By: Judi

Judi — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 02:38:57 +0000

Fantastic blog post on the link between poverty and the lack of education – or rather, the reception of poor education. So very true!

There are so many issues which could be resolved if we could focus on providing proper education: equal and fair distribution for all students. But, there is more to the issue than merely providing good schools, the issue of schooling is not in isolation of the other contributors to lack of education. If I may, I invite you to visit my blog: http://onceuponalemontree.blogspot.com/.

I am focusing solely on this issue, and would love to increase the conversation. I hope that we can start a movement that will begin to solve this problem.

Thank you!
Judi

By: dollyann

dollyann — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 18:06:13 +0000

SO TRUE. And let me just add on that I went to a fairly well-funded high school, and this is what happened. The school spent thousands of dollars on new ASTROTURF for the football field, yet by the end of the fourth term there wasn’t enough money for paper-which then led to the school boo-hooing that the district wasn’t supportive of its students’ education. Drive an hour from my high school into the next community though and you would see kids that didn’t have money for new textbooks let alone fake grass. Yet my school (mostly white, by the way) was set as an example for others because our students’ parents could afford the after school tutoring, etc.

You know, I read a book not too long ago about the disparity between middle/upper class (usually white) students and gifted inner city/impoverished students (of color, usually). It was called “And Still We Rise” by Miles Corwin. It really showed how money gives kids such a leg-up in America, despite efforts to “standardize” and “nationalize” everything. Social location prevents there from ever being a fair, national standard.

Outstanding blog action day post! :D

By: lenorenevermore

lenorenevermore — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 10:18:12 +0000

Great post & so important to bring all the topics indeed… & you make it so interesting… cartoons r adorable too! Feel free to visit my blog & hope you say hi! I’m doing ‘pink theme at the moment f October cancer awareness… another good thing, yes?! Hope to hear from you….

By: Dollface

Dollface — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 16:25:04 +0000

@ mermaid — Thanks for reading, and your comment! I’m going to go check out your post now.

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plastic card printing — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:28:34 +0000

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By: mermaid

mermaid — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 21:59:11 +0000

i never really thought about how intertwined education and poverty are. but this brings me to really think about the public school system (which i totally despise anyway!)

and props for participating in blog action day! i did as well, but focused my post on respect of individuals living in poverty.
your post makes me think about poverty in a question of blame. poverty exists because we are allowing it to. we as a nation, a society, a world, are to blame.

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