What does money really have to do with it?

     In an education system money has a lot to deal with money. The stereotypes of low-income and high-income students are notorious in school systems. Like the myth of low-income students being unmotivated and having weak work ethics. Though, in reality, low-income people do not have weaker work ethics or lower levels of motivation than wealthier people, because 83 percent of children from low-income families have at least one employed parent; close to 60 percent have at least one parent who works full-time and year-round (National Center for Children in Poverty, 2004), this showing that they are just more hard-working than the average American. I think that it's absurd that students in college have to pay an amount that will most likely put them in debt in the future. Education is the future of our new generations and if prices continue to increase, more and more children will be less likely to get proper and effective education. The factor of money is everywhere, so there's no escaping it, but what we could do to decrease the payments students have to make towards the education system to increase the number of students able to get a good education? Another way we could help these stereotypes is to make students feel at home and comfortable in the classroom; no matter the background, no matter the classification every teacher should be able to hold these high standards. Some other things we can do is also reaching out to low-income families even when they appear unresponsive, respond when colleagues stereotype poor students or parents, never assume that all students have equitable access to such learning resources as computers and the Internet, and never assign work requiring this access without providing in-school time to complete it.