QTCE 3010Y Lecture 4: Poverty (Sept. 29)
8 Mar 2016
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Quality of living arrangements quality of sleep students receive. Quality/quantity of food your students will eat. Amount of time able to spend with parents. Types of extra-curricular events students can participate in. The impact of poverty goes beyond material deprivation and contributes to social exclusion. As grade 4 and 5 students in north bay told us, poverty is: Feeling ashamed when my dad can"t get a job . Being afraid to tell your mom you need gym shoes . Students who move and change schools frequently during the school year because the family does not have enough money to pay the rent. Students who shrink from shame or lash out from anger and who feel the stigma of poverty. Students who continue to suffer from low self-esteem and low confidence which grows in high school. Students who sometimes lose hope that life can be any better.
