Poverty in the Schools- Ed Week Article

This week’s article that I examined deals with the overwhelming increases of poverty in public school systems. This article is really good about being able to turn ones head. Many people do not realize how much of a current problem poverty has on the schools systems today.
The article not only commented that the South has many poverty stricken families, but that poverty constitutes the majority. This is so important because today, the public school systems are working at the maximum to make an impact on children. With these new statistics, poverty holds back the success of the school systems and the changes they are trying to make. The article threatens the country by saying that if the rates continue; the whole country could be made up of mostly poverty stricken families.
Because of the increase of the enrollment of African Americans and Latinos, high birth rates of Latinos and the increase of Immigration, the public school systems are dealing with mostly students that are in poverty. This social issue is so current because of what was stated previously: how poverty is holding back the public school systems and their strives for success. A very interesting point the article makes is how poverty is a vicious cycle, and the school systems are supposed to be preventing poverty, but now they are overwhelmed with poverty stricken families.
Hopefully, these rates will eventually fall and our teachers today and educate to their highest ability to create students who are willing to succeed and obtain high paying and successful job to take our country out of poverty.