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Different schools provide different learning environments to students. The learning atmosphere provided to students depends on a number of factors. The most common factor that influences the kind of environment created is the physical location of the learning institution in question. Other factors such as the level of the institution, availability of resources among other factors however play an equally important role in shaping the learning environment that is created. Poverty has been known to have negative effects on most institutions around the globe. Poverty makes it hard for learning institutions to provide all the required facilities to help ensure efficient learning takes place (Hermes p.9-26).
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Poverty leads to low performance among learning institutions in a number of ways. The two major ways are lack of the physical structures and resources as well as lack of highly skilled personnel. Poverty makes it impossible for learning institutions to have modern learning facilities. It also makes it practically impossible for schools and other learning institutions to hire highly skilled personnel, as they would demand high pay that would be unaffordable to these institutions (Swanson p.14-17).
Poverty and low quality learning facilities
A visit to most learning institutions within low-income regions reveal the absence of well developed structural facilities for learning. The absence of well-developed facilities make learning difficult as the students and teachers are forced to work with low quality facilities that are available. This in effect results into poor performance on the part of students due to the use of inferior learning facilities as compared to students who attend schools that are located within the high-income neighborhoods (Swanson p.14-17).
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Challenges faced by students in low income Neighborhoods
Different learning environments present different challenges to both the learners and their teachers. The physical location of a learning institution is a factor that presents most opportunities and challenges in comparison to other factors. Students within low-income neighborhoods face many challenges. These challenges sometimes originate within the learning institution while other challenges are purely from the school's immediate environment.
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Students who attend schools located within low-income neighborhoods face a number of challenges that are internal to these institutions. The most common challenges that students within these schools face are, lack of enough learning material, congested classrooms and poor overall preparation for examinations. The challenges within emanate within these schools is due to lack of adequate resources to adequately execute school programs (Swanson p.14-17).
Lack of enough learning material
Schools located within low-income neighborhoods are characterized by low financial resources to help acquire learning materials enough for use by the high number of students. Students within these learning institutions are therefore forced to share the little resources that are at their disposal. This results into use of the available resources by only [url=http://www.thehygienerevolution.com/hollister.php]hollister france[/url] those students who are [url=http://www.par5club.com/louboutin.php]louboutin pas cher[/url] willing to learn without any pressure from either the parents or the teachers. Lack of resources is thus a major challenge to schools that are located in low-income neighborhoods (Swanson p.14-17).
Congested classrooms
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Poor student Preparation
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Challenges in the immediate environment
Other than the challenges that are purely brought in the internal environment of the schools in question, the external environment also presents its own challenges. The two most common challenges are negative influence to the students and a physically polluted atmosphere for learning.
Negative influence
Low-income neighborhoods are normally homes to all sorts of people in the country. Due to the affordability of housing and other facilities in these low-income neighborhoods, most people prefer to inhabit these areas. Students in these areas are likely to interact with socially unfit individuals. Such interactions are likely to negatively influence the students leading to low academic achievements (Sampson, Morenoff and Gannon-Rowley p.443-478).
Polluted atmosphere for learning
In low-income neighborhoods, schools are located within the residential places. Poor disposal of waste, loud music together with other normal lifestyles of the people in these places do interfere with the normal learning processes. The human activities negatively affect learning in these regions by creating non-conducive atmosphere for learning leading to poor performance on the part of students (Sampson, Morenoff and Gannon-Rowley p.443-478).
Conclusion
Low-income neighborhoods present many challenges to students. These challenges have an overall effect on the students' performance. The challenges are from both within the schools themselves as well as from their immediate environments. The challenges that result from the internal environment are normally caused by lack of resources to execute the schools programs. The challenges within the external environment on the other hand are due to human activities and the highly populated neighborhoods that make up the schools immediate environment. The use of lowly skilled teachers with little or no experience is also a common challenge. These challenges result into poor performance on the part of students. With such kind of low performance, students from such schools end up in low paying jobs. It can therefore be concluded that poverty that characterizes the learning institutions in the low-income neighborhoods results into poor academic performance making it difficult for these students to secure well paying jobs.
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