Families coming from Lower income households or poverty tend to not excel or attend a place of education; where as better off families don't ever see this problem. This is represented in many statics with the reasonings varying. Reasons being: they might not be able to afford means of transportation for the student, they might need the extra income from the student picking up a job, or the student has to work many waking hours before and after a school day. This is causing the students, when in school; concentration hard to find. Many of these points can relate back to the children of the Gilded Age,
but one final explanation to these statistics are: the students might see how their parents or grandparents went to school and completed it, but they are still considered a poverty proportion of the world, so what would be the point of completing school. The outcomes seem to differ very slightly : complete it; be poor, or skip; make money, but not enough to keep your family afloat. What would be the point of putting in extra work for less credit. Stated from the National Center of Education Statistics," Low income families fail to graduate at five times the rate of middle income families and six times that of higher income youth."
This can relate to the Gilded Age in many ways. The families kept their children home from school to make more money for the household. But when not going to school they don't receive an education. Resulting in the children not being able to do much with their lives to obtain more money. Therefore, the poor people stayed poor and the wealthy people wealthy, unless you made a stand for yourself.
