A new study by the Southern Education Foundation has revealed that the number of low income students enrolled in schools across the United States has surged in recent years to new astronomical numbers.
According to the study, 17 of the 50 states in the country can say that at least half of their students come from households with incomes at or below the poverty line.
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In Mississippi, 71 percent of public schoolchildren placed into the low income category. New Mexico and Louisiana rounded out the top-three states with regards to low income majorities, and the 17 locales listed with as having more than half of their students included states such as Florida and California, with 56 and 54 percent of its public school students, respectively, considered low income.
Taking into account the whole US, the foundation said 48 percent of all public school children came from homes with incomes low enough to earn those students free or reduced lunches.
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The foundation predicts that within the next few years, “low income students will become a majority of all public school children in the United States.”
Is it any wonder America's public schools are in such disarray? Of course they are, when half the students that attend them are worried about what they are going to eat for lunch, it makes it hard to focus on learning. When half the students come from low income neighborhoods the government obviously isn't focusing on their needs.
There are rich kids to worry about and they are all attending private schools. There are loaded donors who need subsidies and bail outs to worry about. Poor kids being taught at poorly run institutions are the least of our overlords problems. If this is the level we are at today, I am truly scared to imagine how many American kids will be living in poverty when the SHTF.
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