I was an education major until I found out that the Social Work majors had less math to do...
So I got my master's in couseling ed and they wouldn't let me work in the schools without a 15 week externship at 40 hours a week- and since I was a grown-up at that point (car loans and bills!) I couldn't afford to let the Carroll County (MD) school system pimp me out for free.
But back to the topic at hand.
Poverty, illness, education, lifeskills, etc. they're all so intertwined that it's very hard to factor in one without considering how all of the others interplay. When you're malnourished or undernourished you can learn so you become distracted in school which then leads to school issues etc, etc. If you or your parents are sick and have no health insurance...it's a giant seething ball of poo that Katrina helped to expose.
AA in the workplace or higher education is all well and good, but we have got to get people fed, clothed and working, too.
Jenn
(and yes, I'm all for people pulling themselves up but ya gotta know how to access resources that are available and we suck at that, too!)
So I got my master's in couseling ed and they wouldn't let me work in the schools without a 15 week externship at 40 hours a week- and since I was a grown-up at that point (car loans and bills!) I couldn't afford to let the Carroll County (MD) school system pimp me out for free.
But back to the topic at hand.
Poverty, illness, education, lifeskills, etc. they're all so intertwined that it's very hard to factor in one without considering how all of the others interplay. When you're malnourished or undernourished you can learn so you become distracted in school which then leads to school issues etc, etc. If you or your parents are sick and have no health insurance...it's a giant seething ball of poo that Katrina helped to expose.
AA in the workplace or higher education is all well and good, but we have got to get people fed, clothed and working, too.
Jenn
(and yes, I'm all for people pulling themselves up but ya gotta know how to access resources that are available and we suck at that, too!)
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