Problems all around here, from the Front Page Sections, translated…
The statistic might shock the readers in Taiwan. For kids under the age of seventeen in Japan, one in six is living below the poverty line, the rate of poverty is as high as 16.3, higher than the OECD average.
“What’s sad is, that in the past, the Japanese government didn’t want to admit, or to deal with the problems of children living in poverty.” Yumiko Watanabe, without any background in education, had set up KIDSDOOR, and, in 2010, she’d set up the very first tutoring center in Tokyo, because “there are so many nonprofit organizations that help the poverty stricken children internationally to get educated, but no program to help the children in Japan at all”.
Watanabe said, that cram school isn’t at all, correlated to the children’s school performances, “but, like most of the single-parent families where the parents work until late, and, when the kids have homework troubles, they have no one to ask, or, there are those who’d given up completely on their studies, because they have NOBODY to go to with their questions”, these kids couldn’t get into the public schools in the cities, and can’t afford to go to the private high schools, they’re a group of children who were given up on, early in life.
The scholars analyzed the results of Japan’s “National Academic Achievement”, that the higher the incomes of the parents, the better the grades of the children. Watanabe pointed out, that after the kids from low-income households grow up, a-fourth of them would continue to receive low-income sustenance from the government, and, “Education is the BEST way to break this cycle of poverty”.
And so, this woman set up the program to help the kids whose parents didn’t have the time, or energy to take care of them, to help them with their school assignments, and, this is just AWFUL, because ALL children should be given the opportunity to get educated, after all, education IS the best way, to get oneself OUT of poverty.
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