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Effects Of Being Poor

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How does being poor affects the students ability to learn? I believe being poor doesn’t really affect the way you learn in school, It only motivates you to do things the same way as those who aren’t as poor as you. It puts you in the right path to succeed in life and moves you out the debt you seem to be stuck on. Being poor doesn’t have nothing to do with you learning in a safe environment as those who aren’t poor like you. If you’re willing to work am sure you can say that in the future you won’t be in that mess you’re in that debt you’re in today. All you have to is study and work hard. First of all, I am going to be honest with you! I am in a big debt outside of school. I have almost lost my house twice this year. My father abandon …show more content…

Is not that I don’t have grocery’s at home which is why I eat at school. Is just that when I eat at school it wakes me up in my third period class and that’s the most important class for me. Third period is the class I have all the upper class student who were born and raised wealthy than me. I need to be awake in that class to prove a poverty young student can out beat, outsmart the wealthy life folks. So far I have because I am one of the top 4 in that class. Which is odd because I out beat 23 other student to be in that position. I shouldn’t even be their because I suppostly don’t know what am doing. So they say? But I am because I have a goal! A goal to see my family in a better position than they are today. Lastly, I hardly have transportation to arrive to school so I have to wake up very early to walk to school. We have only one vehicle but my mom uses it to get to her double job she has. I don’t care if I have to ride metro to get to school! Nothing is going to stop me for accomplishing my goal in school. Nothing is going to affect me from learning. I am unstoppable from learning what I need to learn to get out of this mess were in and move up to the middle class. I could be sick, injured, and that well still not stop me from getting to school to

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