Children's Poverty in Louisiana Poverty Term Paper

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60) creating what is being called a "School-to-Prison Pipeline." Even before the hurricane, New Orleans schools were the worst in the country. The school system had a history of financial mismanagement, failing test scores, crumbling buildings and facilities, and accompanying school violence and racial segregation. The schools have a prison-like atmosphere that is hardly conducive to learning. Real damage is being done to Louisiana's children by "turning simple acts of childishness into crimes punishable by incarceration" (p. 61). Although the schools alone cannot end the cycle of poverty, it stands to reason that children who lack education cannot break out of it. They are more likely to drop out, commit crimes, and end up in prison. "The single largest predictor of later arrest among adolescents is having been suspended, expelled, or held back..." (cited in Tuzzolo & Hewitt, 2006, p. 63).

Most people would say they love their children and want them to do well.

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But "Actions speak louder than words." If we fail to provide for the basic needs of children, there will be consequences to pay later. The failure can be laid at the feet of public apathy and ineffective government agencies: "Government agencies responsible for serving the people have become muscle bound, almost to the point of paralysis when it comes to considering more effective performance" (Linowes, 1995, p. 87). Their solutions and designs are outmoded, designed for a different era. Mario Cuomo (1994) puts it succinctly when he says, "If we bring children into this world and let them go hungry and uneducated, if we are indifferent to the drugs and squalor that surround them...then all of us will share the outcome" (p. 9)......

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