Content: 1) What is your essential question, and what are your answers? What is your best answer and why?
- My essential question is, "What is the most effective support system for an underprivileged youth to break the poverty cycle?".
- My first answer: The best way a child can break the poverty cycle is if he or she follows the Social Development Strategy that is in the Pomona Youth and Family Master Plan.
- My second answer: A child can have either 1)intrinsic motivation or 2)extrinsic motivation through : 1)wanting to achieve for something greater than what their current circumstance offers them or 2) with the support of a good adult influence, a child will recognize that support and be motivated by an outside force to do well in school and in life.
- My third answer: 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.
- My best answer is, "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."
- This is my best answer because:
- Children that usually come from humble backgrounds are usually the first one's in their family to go to college. Because of this, most of these kids do not think that college is a realistic goal usually because of the cost. Schools need to expose to these kids that college is affordable through scholarships and grants. That they need to have the best grades possible for the best chance at receiving those resources. Schools need to talk about college from the very beginning (Elementary) so that the families are on board. The moment that families are involved and informed there is a much higher chance of all-around support and success for the child (Elmer Rodriguez, High School Outreach Specialist/Genethia Hudley-Haynes, Former LAUSD School Board President/currently the Los Angeles County District Three Deputy of Education)
- The first time I actually had an idea about what a possible answer could be was when I interviewed High School Outreach Specialist, Elmer Rodriguez, who felt very strongly about how schools, especially in impoverished communities, do not talk about how it can be a possibility for kids to go to college as long as they are supported and told how to receive scholarship money and find ways to go to college. College should be a priority not an option or a maybe especially for kids that come from humble backgrounds.
- The main process was asking professionals who have been in the workforce, who have seen first hand, poverty, and the trial and error and those who have succeeded and those who haven't.
- The main problem I faced was finding credible sources for my answers. I couldn't find things specific to my project. There were many sources about how poverty is a problem, but never sources on how to combat or solve gentrification and the poverty cycle. There were many first hand experiences of how people escaped the cycle, but non about how to combat it as a whole. The main way I found sources was through my mentorship and interviews.
- I had problems with mentorship and adjusting to not having a car. So I often took the bus and started going to city meetings. As a result, I discovered Pomona's Promise, an entire city committee dedicated to a healthier and safer Pomona.
- The fact that I was able to interview an L.A.U.S.D. Board Member, and asking her professional opinion and first-hand experiences
- The second is my independent component because I was able to ask people from different backgrounds and circumstances on what they did right and wrong and noticed a pattern between those who come from humble backgrounds on the problems the face and how they tackled those problems.
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