Education/09/17/09 Surge in Homeless Pupils Strains Schools

In Asheville, N.C. in a extremely small trailer her parents rented over the summer, 9-year old Charity Crowell picked out clothes for the first day of school. And she promised to work as hard as she could to get the C’s she had last spring up. But this all changed for her when her parents lost there jobs, house, and car now they are migrating through friends homes and motels just so she has some wear she could actually do home work and studies. This effects me as a reader because this girl never actually has a home to call home she made me fell how hard it would be to just how hard it truly must have been to do home work. I know for a fact that I would have an extremely hard time because instead of studying I would be worried on when we have to move again or what if we had no were else to go. I think my grades would fall at an extremely high rate if I was in her position. And in the article Charity said “it was extremely hard to go to sleep because I could always hear us moving place to place then the next day I nodded off in class some times”. This Article made me think how many others students might be going through this or some thing like it I probley have some one I know that has or had this going on while they were younger. So this really touched me as a reader it showed how much she had gone through just to get to school and and have a place to stay just like the other 679,000 homeless students.