Today I’ll talk about poverty.  Everyone seems to have an opinion about public education these days. Test scores make headlines, and magazines debate public or charter schools. People write blogs, and reels appear on social media.  Without telling us what poverty IS, they say children living in poverty can’t learn like ‘the rest of us. They don’t succeed academically.  Their parents don’t have any family values. The adults don’t want to work. They are sucking the state coffers dry.  Teachers are not exempt from making assumptions.  “If only their parents would…blah, blah, blah…I could teach them. “ 

I disagree.  

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