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[Author Prev][Author Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Author Index][Thread Index] Re: CA State results shed new light on wealth vs. poverty debate.
At 06:42 PM 8/18/2007 -0700, Peter Farruggio wrote: in secondary schools, they usually have the kids fill out the forms. No adolescent wants to stand in the free lunch line, or to be teased for having uneducated parents, so they purposely overstate both parents' income and education levels. In a unified school district, where the same families and even the very same kids are represented at the elementary schools one year and in the high school a few years later, it is common for the high school students to report lower levels of poverty than their parents report when filling out the forms for younger brothers and sisters. George Sheridan
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