Tyler Stephens
March 27, 2016
Blog #2
The
first point that stood out to me the most was found in Chapter 5. The title of this section is called “The
Wrong Side of the Track”. The Wrong Side
of the Track focused mostly on education and poverty. One point that Abramsky made was about students
living in areas they are not aware of. This
stood out to me mostly because I am a student that moved to an area I was
unaware of. Coming to Charleston was
very different for me because I was used to be in a big city where getting on
the bus or the train everywhere was normal.
In Charleston everything is pretty much walking distant. It also took me some time to get use to the
food selection out here. The city and
the country are two total different environments. In the passage he discussed how they have
students that are homeless. There are
schools out there that keep these students together as far as their basic needs
hygiene necessities.
Another point made was about how people have challenging
lives dues to poverty. While in poverty
people definitely turn to drugs and alcohol.
Turning to these drugs make other issues arise in their personal lives. They start to become weak and society and
begins to look down on them. It can also
become a generational thing and get passed down to children.
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