This weekend I decided to go outside of the Early Childhood setting and asked friends and family to comment on the "What Is Poverty?" blog. These are the questions that I listed.
What are your thoughts? Do you believe that becoming an advocate to ensure that all poor families, not just some, benefit from a quality Early Childhood Education Program is worth advocating for with today’s economy in shambles? Does your definition of poverty include some or all of the poor? What can be a valid argument for working families who want their young children to benefit from a quality Early Childhood Education Program, but are not eligible for the Child Care Assistance Program because they are over the poverty income guidelines? Should we settle for being grateful that some of our poor families are eligible for the Childcare Assistance Program? In what ways do you believe that children and their families can benefit from a quality Early Childhood Education Program?
Luz Macias said:
ReplyDeletePoverty is a mental/emotional status. A millionaire can feel poor if he/she do not appreciate and value what he/she has. His/her ambition do not have limits, therefore never is going to be enough. In contrast a poor person who has the necessary to survive only can feel a richer person if he/she has enough to eat day by day. I know that poverty exist everywhere around the world; nevertheless there are two kind of poverty, economic poverty and spiritual poverty, and I believe the spiritual is the worst.
August 27, 2011