Insular Poverty's Negative Effects On Students During Their Educational Career

As the rich get richer and the poor get poorer, the gap between the rich and the poor is growing bigger and bigger everyday. More and more people are falling into insular poverty. Insular poverty is rapidly growing, in our nation, into a huge problem today. It’s affecting student’s education causing them to work so much harder to get out of poverty. To get a higher education in a poverty stricken home is almost impossible. Research is showing that poverty negatively impacts students during their educational career. Poverty negatively affects children's educational development by malnutrition. “Malnourished children are 20% less literate than those with a healthier diet, says UK charity Save the Children” (The Information Daily). When parents

“The wealthy start the game at third with the bases loaded, needing only a solid hit to reach home and a future. Waiting at second and first are the middle class, with a more difficult path, but home plate still within reach. Buried in the lineup are the poor”(NYSUT United). For them, crossing home plate is no guarantee.Unequal opportunity in a student's educational career does not only happen throughout their standard educational career but also when seeking for a high education. Lower class families are faced with the challenge of educational unaffordability while upper class families have an unfair advantage of educational affordability. This gives the upper class the ability to send their children to college while the lower class has to work much harder for their high education or not get

There are many emotional and social challenges students in poverty go through that other students do not. Beginning at birth, the attachment formed between parent and child predicts the quality of future relationships with teachers and peers (Szewczyk-Sokolowski, Bost, & Wainwright, 2005) and plays a leading role in the development of such social functions as curiosity, arousal, emotional regulation, independence, and social competence (Sroufe, 2005). The brains of infants are hardwired for only six emotions: joy, anger, surprise, disgust, sadness, and fear (Ekman, 2003). Children raised in poverty are much less likely to have these crucial needs met than their more affluent peers are and, as a result, are subject to some grave consequences. Deficits in these areas inhibit the production of new brain cells, alter the path of maturation, and rework the healthy neural circuitry in children's brains, thereby undermining emotional and social development and predisposing them to emotional