Argumentative Essay On Children Of Poverty

We are told the children of today are the future, and we should put more value on education, but some children are demotivated and some are motivated in our education system. Some popular assumptions on why some students succeed are they are intelligent hard-working students. The popular assumptions why some students do not succeed are they are at risk by a culture of inherent violent. All students should have the same resources, and the same treatments.

“At-risk students are at risk of failing and/or dropping out of school, of being placed in special education, of being incarcerated, of being the victim of a homicide-the list of potential destinies counties” (87, Redeaux). The assumptions come from broad generalization as Ruby Payne believed that there is a “culture” of poverty characterized by certain behaviors. Payne is an educator and a writer. Payne believes children of poverty are inherently violent. She believes people living in poverty must to taught to want to escape poverty, as she believes it is a position they choose to be in. Redeaux disagrees, and states Payne does not answer the question and is being fed stereotypes about children of poverty. According to Redeaux, the media plays a role in how children in poverty are portrayed. For example,

The stereotypes affected them in school, and they feel it was necessity to drop out. Pregnant teens are often the object of critique. The stereotypes are comes from politicians which use teen pregnancy as to shame them. The teenager mothers feel the best option was to go to an alternative school because they did not feel that they were going to graduate if they continue going to their schools. The schools did not attempt to make the teenagers feel a sense of belonging causing them to dropout. The schools need more access to resources that can help their students stay in