This really opened my eyes to see the vast difference of not only how fragile communities view the importance of higher education, but of how accessible it is to them. I definitely understand where they are coming from. Even in my own family, we all knew education was important, but we also knew my parents couldn't afford to send us all to a university college. I feel like in America, we should be the leaders in accessible education for all. It's sad to see that only 5% of people from fragile communities feel like they are satisfied with the availability of a higher education. We need to focus on everyone having access to an education of their choosing, no matter their circumstances in life.
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- Sep 2020
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Only 5% were “extremely satisfied” and 23% were “satisfied” with the availability of affordable early childhood education. Fewer than half were “extremely satisfied” (8%) or “satisfied”(32%) with the quality of their k-12 schools.
Wow! How sad is this, in a county like the US!! 5% of people are extremely satisfied with the availability of higher education. We have to do better!
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Fragile community residents are almost twice as likely as U.S. adults overall to have annual household incomes under $35,000;
Probably a huge reason why fragile communities feel like a higher education is not attainable. Their household income isn't high enough to pay for most college tuition.
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while people living in America’s most fragile communities place a high value on a college education, less than a third strongly agree that people in their neighborhoods will have access to it.
This is really sad. People in fragile communities know how important getting an education is, they just don't think it's attainable for them to do so.
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