VMC ASIAN COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC.

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THE IMPACT OF POVERTY TO THE STUDENTS

OF VMCACFI ON THEIR EDUCATION

LEGAWAN , JULIUS RYAN I.

School Year 2022 – 2023

 CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Julius Ryan Legawan

Age: 17 yrs old
Status: Single
Address: Brgy. Sinakulay Pres. Quirino
Birth date: September 15 , 2005
Place of birth: Tacurong’s Doctor’s Hospital
Religion: Islam
Number: 0975 648 7986
Email: legawanr@gmail.com

Education

Elementary: Palumbe Integrated School

Junior High School: VMC Asian College Foundation Inc.
Senior High School: VMC Asian College Foundation Inc.
Date : April 24 , 2023
The Impact of being a poverty students of VMCACFI on their Education

INTRODUCTION

According to National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP)

Each day countless students come to school, each with their own set of unique gifts,

abilities, and challenges. Recent data has found that students living in poverty often face

far more challenges than their peers. According to the National Center of Education

Statistics, 19 percent of individuals under 18 lived in poverty during the 2015–16 school

year. Furthermore, 24.4 percent of students attended high-poverty schools during that

same year. The data also show that higher percentages of Hispanic, African-American,

American Indian/Alaska Native, and Pacific Islander students attended high-poverty

schools than white students, underscoring that poverty is also an issue of equity that

must be addressed.

These data show the reality of what our public education system is facing

today. Nearly one-fifth of students nationwide are either living in poverty,

attending a high-poverty school, or both. Poverty negatively impacts students in a

variety of ways within K–12 education and beyond. This can be through a variety

of different factors that are often symptoms of poverty, like health issues

stemming from a nonnutritional diet, homelessness, lack of food, or the inability

to receive medical treatment for illnesses. These factors often place more stress
on a student, which can negatively impact the student’s ability to succeed in a

school.

Students living in poverty often have fewer resources at home to complete

homework, study, or engage in activities that helps equip them for success

during the school day. Many impoverished families lack access to computers,

high-speed internet (three-fourths of households currently have access to high-

speed broadband), and other materials that can aid a student outside of school.

Parents of these families often work longer hours or multiple jobs, meaning they

may not be available to assist their children with their schoolwork.

Furthermore, in many high-poverty school districts, resources are

sorely lacking in schools. Nearly every state has its own division of funding for

school districts and education based on property taxes. Unfortunately, this

system unfairly affects individuals living in poverty and the students attending

school in those areas. Because property taxes are often much lower in high-

poverty areas, schools in those areas receive much less than their more

affluently-located counterparts. Recent data from the U.S. Department of

Education state that 40 percent of high-poverty schools are not getting a fair

share of state and local funds.

This often leaves schools with limited budgets to address a multitude of

issues, including hiring educators, updating resources for students, preparing

students for postsecondary education or the workforce, dealing with unsafe

infrastructure, and much more. There are often instructional gaps for those
attending high-poverty schools as well. Data from the 2015–16 National Teacher

and Principal Survey show that students from low-income families “are

consistently, albeit modestly, more likely to be taught by lower-credentialed and

novice teachers” (Garcia and Weiss). Research has also shown that many

teachers in high-poverty schools are inexperienced and often less effective than

their more experienced peers who are often targeted for hire by higher-income

schools and districts. The lack of high-quality instruction serves to only further

separate academic achievement levels for students in high-poverty schools from

peers in who are often targeted for hire by higher-income schools and districts. The lack

of high-quality instruction serves to only further separate academic achievement levels

for students in high-poverty schools from peers in high-income schools or

districts.VMCACFI student really struggled at this problem and its really affecting their

studies and education at the school.

STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM

1. How does poverty affect sudent education?

2. How does poverty affect lack of education?

3. Why poverty is the cause of poor education?

As a result , being a poverty student These factors often place more

stress on a student, which can negatively impact the student’s ability to

succeed in a school. Poverty students are really hard they only have a few

Resources at home to finish their homework and projects and many of them

don’t have a high speed internet connection / gadgets, because of that they

can’t connect on their advisers through internet which also can make their

studies really difficult especially now gadgets and computers are really

important not only on VMCACFI but to education nowadays . The poverty

really affect the students at the VMCACFI and others school because of going

to school without much money to buy on school is really one of the hardest

part of being a poverty student , can’t able to buy some foods when your

hungry at school and can’t buy tuition fee because of lack of money. That was

also the reason why some poverty students choose to drop out on school

and started working. Many students of VMCACFI stop going to school

because of the effect of this Poverty. This study prove that poverty can kill

the students education and their future, i hope that a lot of schools in our

country can help the poverty students by giving them a full scholarship to be

able to attend to school and to reach their dreams in the future , this will be a

very huge help for our poverty students. Conducting this study will make

some of the VMCACFI student to understand how hard to be a poverty

student. But still a big salute to all of those students whose helping their

poverty classmates here at VMCACFI , they are indeed a good students.

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