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When kids are evicted, they often lose both home and school (apnews.com)
submitted 1 month ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world
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There was the house in Houston owned by her grandmother, Crystal Holmes. Then, after Holmes lost her Southwest Airlines job and the house, there was the trio of apartments in the suburbs — and three evictions. Then another rental, and another eviction. Then motels and her uncle’s one-bedroom apartment, where Mackenzie and her grandmother slept on an inflatable mattress. Finally, Crystal Holmes secured a spot in a women’s shelter, so the two would no longer have to sleep on the floor.

With nearly every move came a new school, a new set of classmates, and new lessons to catch up on. Mackenzie only has one friend she’s known longer than a year, and she didn’t receive testing or a diagnosis for dyslexia until this year. She would often miss long stretches of class in between schools.

Schoolchildren threatened with eviction are more likely to end up in another district or transfer to another school, often one with less funding, more poverty and lower test scores. They’re more likely to miss school, and those who end up transferring are suspended more often. That’s according to an analysis from the Eviction Lab at Princeton University, published in Sociology of Education, a peer-reviewed journal, and shared exclusively with The Associated Press’ Education Reporting Network.

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[–] HK65@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

I guess you need poverty to recreate itself for the orphan crushing machines to work.

Absolutely despicable that this is how society works.

[–] 52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Where I live, the school gives you the option to remain, even if you move, so long as you can get yourself there. I thought this would be policy everywhere?

[–] j0ester@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

In my state, if you move to a different city/town, you go to that city/town public school.

[–] hedgehogging_the_bed@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Why would it be the policy everywhere? School choice rules that like are usually only in small areas like the Delaware. Usually they indicate that there isn't a large difference in the quality of the schools between the areas. If you tried this in an area that had a urban-rural divide like Pennsylvania or New York, the flow of students into the suburban schools would be very difficult to handle.