Document Type
Keynote Address
Abstract
Every day at Moulton School I face a variety of situations that set the stage for me and the other educators as we work to help children learn. Each day I face at least one circumstance involving drugs, loaded guns, families in poverty, prostitution, desegregation, single parents, or transient families. Moulton Elementary is not atypical of schools across the United States. The following statistics concerning children in our country should frighten us into reality. Each day in this country: • 27 children die because of poverty • 13 million children live in poverty • 9 children are shot to death • 2,740 teenagers get pregnant • 1,293 teenagers have babies • 676 babies are born without adequate prenatal care • 3,288 children run away from home in the past 10 years poverty has gripped our country producing frightening numbers-but behind those numbers are people, especially children who have been put at risk. For example, children living with a single female parent have a better than 50% chance of living in poverty. By the year 2000, 1 child in 4 will be poor.
Journal Title
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series
Volume
2
Issue
1
First Page
9
Last Page
14
Publisher
Institute for Educational Leadership, University of Northern Iowa
City
Cedar Falls, IA
Copyright
©1991 Institute for Educational Leadership, College of Education, and University of Northern Iowa
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Liechty, Sally
(1991)
"Keynote Address [Sally Liechty],"
Institute for Educational Leadership Monograph Series: Vol. 2:
No.
1, Article 5.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/iel_monographs/vol2/iss1/5
