"The United States has the second highest child poverty rate among 35 industrialized countries despite having the largest economy in the world." High Poverty schools are schools where 75% or more of the students are eligible for free or reduced lunch. Explain how poverty can contribute to lack of academic achievement or learning disabilities in the classroom? "
Poverty can contribute to lack of academic achievement or learning disabilities for many reasons. It could be from malnutritional reasons, poor sleeping arrangement or even just a bad support system at home. And that is by learning from personal experience through friends. When I was grade school, I didn't grow up in a high poverty area. It was a mid- high middle class