A Long Way from Home: Chicago's Homeless Children and the Schools.

Autor/in	Dohrn, Bernardine
Institution	Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago, IL.
Titel	A Long Way from Home: Chicago's Homeless Children and the Schools.
Quelle	(1991), (94 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Academic Achievement; Children; Dropouts; Elementary Secondary Education; Family Problems; Federal Legislation; Homeless People; Housing; Parents; Social Problems; Student Mobility; Student Transportation; Transfer Students; Transient Children; Urban Schools + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulleistung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Drop-out; Drop-outs; Dropout; Early leavers; Schulversagen; Familienkrise; Bundesrecht; Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Unterkunft; Eltern; Social problem; Soziales Problem; Student; Students; Mobility; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Mobilität; Schulbus; Hochschulwechsel; Schulwechsel; Studienortwechsel; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule
Abstract	When a child has lost his or her permanent housing and experiences the stress of a family crisis, the additional loss of a familiar school and its context may well be devastating. A basic educational need of children is continuity and stability in schooling. Yet most children (142 Chicago, Illinois families in shelters) interviewed in this investigation attended three or more schools in the 1990-1991 school year. The consequences of these problems are obvious and unrelenting: truancy, failure and dropouts, repeating a grade year, failing to obtain credit for time served, being routed to a track of school failure. The social cost is calamitous. Not a single parent or child interviewed had been offered a choice of continuing enrollment in their home school. None had heard of the McKinney Act or been informed of options by school personnel or shelter employees. Yet more than two-thirds of the parents indicated that they would prefer to have their children continue at their home schools. No family interviewed received transportation assistance to school, except for children in special education schools. Basic provisions of the law are not being implemented. Nine appendixes provide supplemental information and present some correspondence related to homeless children. (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC