Thinking about our visits to Holmes Elementary, Riverfront Farms, Global Neighborhood and the Refugee Parents Panel and what we've been discussing in our academic classes, what did you discover about how socio-economic status and poverty affects students' ability to be successful in school? In what ways is this similar to your home country? In what ways is this different than in your home country? As an educator, how do you understand your role in assisting students from a variety of socio-economic backgrounds to be successful in school?
I understand that students feel uncomfortable when they know they don`t have money, because then they can`t buy books, computers, magazines and start think life is unfair. In both countries this factor interfere with the student`s sucess.
In Portugal there is more cases where the poverty can`t be overcome with the help of the school, because we don`t have a day where the students can pick all the new books they want from the esposition.
We can always help overcome poverty, we just need to be like the principal of Holmes Elementary, because he is so interested and motivated in his work.
A good way of helping kids running away from poverty is making them work in Riverfront Farms. Another ideia is making activities like jewerly, dancing , writing to raise money.
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