Sharing Web Resources Continued

The electronic newsletter that I chose for this class is named the Children's Defense Fund.  The focus of this organization is on the children and helping the one's that are at poverty or low-income classified.  Therefore, this whole newsletter is important to my field as a teacher.  The section from the electronic newsletter that I chose to focus on this week was part of the Financial Report from 2010.  This report talks about what the president of the organization, Marian Edelman is focusing on.  It also focuses on Key Achievements of the organization, promoting the health of children and the impact that this organization has already had since the past.  I chose to focus just on what Marian Edelman had to state about the organization and what needs to be done.  After reading the section written by the president of this organization, there were several pieces of information that are very eye-opening and hard to consider.  Marian Edelman states: "every 11seconds of the school day a child drops out. A majority of children in all racial and income groups and over 80 percent of Black and Latino children cannot read
or do math at grade level in fourth, eighth, or 12th grade." (Edelman, 2012).  As teachers, we need to reach out to the community and give them tips on how they can help better these children for the future.  She also states that every child in the world deserves the right to a quality education, no matter what the circumstances are.  Another very disappointing fact that Marian states is: "Our country and
our states are spending three times more on average per prisoner than per public school student." (Edelman, 2012).  The world is focusing more on the individuals that have problems later in life, which if giving the young children the idea that what they are doing is okay.  Focusing on the misbehavior of the prisoners is being shown more on television, which children are watching and seeing these occurrences.  

One of the main ideas that Marian Edelman, the president of the Children's Defense Fund, is the community is focusing more on individuals that are causing trouble later in their lives and they are not helping out the young children.  This fact is very heart breaking.  "We must, particularly right now, make sure that we end those massive tax giveaways to the richest two percent, when 15.5 million children are languishing in poverty." (Edelman, 2012).  Having that many children in poverty around the world can drastically decrease if teachers, professionals and the community know the importance of early childhood and start helping them and their families at such a young age.  This part of the newsletter that I focused on this week does not deal with economists, neuroscientists, or politicians.  

One thing that I learned from exploring this e-newsletter is that as a community, we are not paying enough attention to the troubles that young children are having.  This is allowing for more of the world to be in poverty.  Once a child or a family is below poverty, it is much harder for them to get above the poverty benchmark.  


References: 

Edelman, Marian. Children's Defense Fund (2012) : Health Care Coverage for All of America's Children, Ending Child Poverty, Child Advocacy Programs. About Us. Retrieved June 1, 2013, from http://www.childrensdefense.org/about-us/