Education never stops. Except when it does.

Every day, we always think of our future. What does our future hold? Who will be in charge of our future? Who will be the working class, and who will continue the fight our generation started?

The old quote, which is still true today, is that "Kids are our future."

Kids are our future and it is our job as the current generation to continuously fight for each other and those after us.

Poverty has affected many, from the Baby Boomers, to Generation X, to the millennials, and now poverty slow sinks into Generation Z, or also known at the kids.

For some, poverty started when they got back from deployment from the military, while others started their level of poverty after losing their job that they had for over 15 years.

Although each of those groups may have some control over their level of poverty, kids do not and it tends to affect the rest of their lives.

A child's education is so important for their growth to become our future. Poverty affects their education in many reasons, including their health and nutrition, their vocabulary, and their effort and hope.

When it comes to their health and nutrition, they do not get the correct nutrients they need to fully grow and some schools cannot afford free and reduced lunches and even when they can, they do not provide the full nutrients they need. And the kids do not have food to bring with themselves to get all of the required nutrients for proactive growth.

As the kid grows up and gets to high school, they need more and more different kinds of food so their bones grow strong and healthy and those free and reduced lunches does not do the trick.

When it comes to their vocabulary, more times then none, the people the kids and students grow up with are not fully educated or no education at all. The language they use is typically not proper and can lead to a future of not being able to get a job because off of first hear, the vocabulary they are not using makes them seem uneducated.

It also doesn't seem to fix the problem of within the classroom, they hear a certain kind of language and then they get home and they can't practice or use the tools they learned effectively and with that, they tend to lose it.

Finally, when it comes to poverty and education, the students and kids in poverty tend to lose all motivation and do not want to put in any sort of effort in the class room.

When they are at home, their family may been down and seem like they do not care about their life because they think it is the worst life possible, and that will in turn affect the kids. Kids look up to their families to learn social norms and how to keep going, where in these cases, the kids may learn to give up the first time and never try for something they want.

They lose hope. We do not need to let our future lose hope, because then there is no future for us them to have.

Poverty can be stopped, and we can save the lives of children so they don't lose hope and can have a positive future instead of no future. Be the change.

Resources:

http://www.ascd.org/publications/educational-leadership/may13/vol70/num08/How-Poverty-Affects-Classroom-Engagement.aspx