CYCLE OF POVERTY
Socioeconomic status, is generally correlated to lower education, poverty and poor health. The APA notes that children who live in a low SES community, or who grow up in families that have low SES, are not as quick to learn academic skills. A low-literacy home environment and chronic stress, as well as schools with inadequate resources are all typical in low-SES communities and affect life-long academic achievement and can perpetuate the cycle of poverty.
HIGH SCHOOL DROP-OUT RATE
Parents in a low-SES situation often do not have the finical resources to provide books, computers or other learning tools to their children. They
may not have the time to read to them or know how to provide support with homework. As a result, the APA notes that students from low-SES schools are as much as three grade levels behind their more economically advantaged peers by the time they enter high school. The high school drop-out rate in 2007 for 16-to-20-year-olds was more than three times higher for children in low-income families when compared to the drop-out rate for children from middle- or high-income families.
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