Deprived Children in Our Schools

English

4/11/2012

Deprived Children in our Schools

Outline

1. Introduction 11. Meaning of Deprived

A. The total picture

B. The United States Census Bureau defines poverty

111. Background Information on Deprived Children

A. Major problems

B. Education and economics

1V. Poverty Effects Learning in children

A. Diverse backgrounds

B. Literacy skills

V. Teachers Expectations of deprived Children

A. Poverty students are unable or unwilling to achieve

B. Preconceived notions about students based on their own beliefs about the role that race,

ethnicity, or socioeconomic status

V1. Closure

A. Teachers’ expectations and discrimination

B. Ethnic minority families

Deprived Children in our Schools

Introduction: This paper depicts the meaning of deprived, background information of deprived children, how poverty affects learning and teachers’ expectation of deprived children. I have researched and study the effect of poverty on school age children and have discovered that poverty effect students’ ability to learn and also some teachers’ ability to teach.

Meaning of Deprived, when we think of deprive children in the school systems we must look at the total picture of why children are failing the school systems and society. A deprived child is one who is without proper parental care or control, endurance, education as required by law, or other care or control necessary for his physical, mental, or emotional health or morals. (Knitzer, Jane, Klein, Lisa G (2007). The United States Census Bureau defines poverty as an "economic condition in which people lack sufficient income to obtain basic needs for food, housing,...