Persuasive Letter To Jerry Brown
March 31 2017
Jerry Brown, Governor of California
State Capitol, Suite 1173
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear Governor Jerry Brown:
I am from Danville California. I am writing with the intention of sharing my opinion on children living in poverty, and how it can affect their performance in school. This issue matters to me because I have a friend who I have known since I was four years old that I see all the time, who used to be really poor and had to move a lot and change schools all the time. He couldn’t keep friends because he always had to move. When somebody asked him what his address was, he would usually say he didn’t know because he never knew when he was going to move again. Despite his poor living conditions, he was able to get straight …show more content…
The article explains how poor children usually have a harder time concentrating in class due to extreme stress and a bad home life: “According to author Eric Jensen, “children raised in poverty rarely choose to behave differently, poverty affects learning because they face challenges their affluent counterparts never see. Their brains have adapted to suboptimal conditions in ways that undermine good school performance,” (Leon) If a child’s primary needs are not met at a young age, formation of new brain cells will slow down and the neural circuitry will create emotional dysfunction, making it difficult for children living in poverty to do well in school.
My third source is Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel illustrates poverty and education by showing how some children who live in poverty may be unmotivated to go to school, or just don’t want to. The Ewells, in To Kill a Mockingbird are extremely poor, and only attend school on the first day every year because they don’t care about school and choose to remain uneducated:
He’s one of the Ewells ma’am, whole school’s full of ‘em. They come first day every year and then leave. The truant lady gets ‘em here ‘cause she threatens ‘em with the sheriff, but she’s give up tryin’ to hold ‘em. She reckons she’s carried out the law just gettin’ their names on the roll and runnin’ ‘em here on the first day. You’re supposed to mark ‘em absent the rest of the year. (Lee,
Jerry Brown, Governor of California
State Capitol, Suite 1173
Sacramento, CA 95814
Dear Governor Jerry Brown:
I am from Danville California. I am writing with the intention of sharing my opinion on children living in poverty, and how it can affect their performance in school. This issue matters to me because I have a friend who I have known since I was four years old that I see all the time, who used to be really poor and had to move a lot and change schools all the time. He couldn’t keep friends because he always had to move. When somebody asked him what his address was, he would usually say he didn’t know because he never knew when he was going to move again. Despite his poor living conditions, he was able to get straight …show more content…
The article explains how poor children usually have a harder time concentrating in class due to extreme stress and a bad home life: “According to author Eric Jensen, “children raised in poverty rarely choose to behave differently, poverty affects learning because they face challenges their affluent counterparts never see. Their brains have adapted to suboptimal conditions in ways that undermine good school performance,” (Leon) If a child’s primary needs are not met at a young age, formation of new brain cells will slow down and the neural circuitry will create emotional dysfunction, making it difficult for children living in poverty to do well in school.
My third source is Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. The novel illustrates poverty and education by showing how some children who live in poverty may be unmotivated to go to school, or just don’t want to. The Ewells, in To Kill a Mockingbird are extremely poor, and only attend school on the first day every year because they don’t care about school and choose to remain uneducated:
He’s one of the Ewells ma’am, whole school’s full of ‘em. They come first day every year and then leave. The truant lady gets ‘em here ‘cause she threatens ‘em with the sheriff, but she’s give up tryin’ to hold ‘em. She reckons she’s carried out the law just gettin’ their names on the roll and runnin’ ‘em here on the first day. You’re supposed to mark ‘em absent the rest of the year. (Lee,