Public Schools Blamed for Poverty

Poverty correlates directly with low test scores, poor academic performance and classroom management problems. Schools with high percentages of children receiving free or reduce lunch have low test scores and poor academic performance.

Teachers are being singled out as the cause of low test scores and poor academic performance. Reduced school budgets are being blamed as the cause of poor academic performance. Unions are labeled as a cause of teachers not being incentivized to improve test scores and academic performance.

Schools provide transportation, breakfast and lunch, health care services, special education services and counseling. The staff includes school nurses, librarians, school counselors, school psychologists, occupational therapists, speech pathologist, and special education services.

The services schools provide are overwhelmed by poverty.  Public schools can not perform their intended service to society when society delivers children living in poverty to the school.

The guardians of society are failing in their ethical obligations and allowing an unjust commercial system to leave millions of Americans in poverty.

Stop blaming schools for poverty.