Blog 17: Answer 3

• My Essential Question is: What is the most effective support for underprivileged youth to break the poverty cycle?

•  My first answer is: One of the most efficient support system for underprivileged youth to break the poverty cycle is the Social Development Strategy as given by the Pomona Youth and Family Master Plan.

• A second answer as an efficient support system for underprivileged youth to break the poverty cycle is when a child has intrinsic motivation or extrinsic motivation to achieve for something greater than what their current circumstance offers them.

• My third answer is that schools must prepare students with the proper skills of college preparedness and have embedded the goal of college to all underprivileged students so that - with college- they can have the best opportunity to break the poverty cycle.

• Real-life examples:

1. When I interviewed Elmer Rodriguez, a high school outreach specialist at Mt.SAC, he explained to me that not all high schools are the same. Some counselors don't give all the effort in their power to do whatever they can to benefit their students ; whether it is 1) money, 2) grades, or 3) any disadvantage that students from low-income backgrounds face. 

• A printed sources that helped me most with my examples was: 

• To ensure that underprivileged students break the poverty cycle there must relentless support. Support from parents to expose their kids to the possibility of college. Schools to support that dream of college, letting kids know from a young age that college is a possible option, and that there is financial assistance to make this all possible. Teachers must be relentless and not give up on students that have a hard time with reading and writing. Teachers need to know that underprivileged students are less likely to