During the late 1920's The Great Depression began to take place. Education was effected immensely throughout this era as it has since the Gilded Age. With this came multiple instances: the baby boom, which led to the demand of teachers going up, bigger schools needing to be built, undernourishment in students attending schools, and the effect of children dropping out of school who would rather work for money to support them and their families.
The simple factor that involved each and everyone of those instances was the drastic change in the public schools at this time. Many saw the conditions at there worst in 1931. The students didn't have the right clothing, supplies, or textbooks. Their parents couldn't afford to purchase these needs for them. It got to an extreme low point of students attending school malnourished. Finally, the children made the decision to drop out of school to help their families in working and making money.
Families not being able to afford the needs of sending their children to school is actually a problem in today's time. From the article, Back-To-School Costs Soar, Burdening the Poor states, “The cost of everything keeps going up…. Then it makes everything else a struggle.” The fact that public schools are costing families over a couple of hundred dollars in supplies, and clothing, and food is a huge problem; that some organizations are working on. Organizations are stepping in to provide as much as possible. Clothing to help students abide by the dress code stipulations, supplies such as binders, pencils, pens, and erasers to keep the students prepared, and even donating canned goods for families to precook the food for the student's lunch the next day. As this isn't a permanent solution,it is one that can help these problems from reaching the drastic issues of 1931. Moving from Era to Era one common thing is being effected: education.
Note* now that I am in homebound services I'm not getting to see my teacher but three hours a week and only 1 history lesson a week. It's really hard to prepare a blog outline, but she told me what we would be learning so I could research ahead. That way I could make this Blog post. Next time I will be able to do a outline because I will have had more lessons ,but I just got my first literally two page packet this week. I attached my two cites that would have been on an outline turn in to the bottom.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/amp/back-to-school-costs-soar-burdening-poor-n175546
https://prezi.com/m/-lq4874bqnx-/education-in-the-1920s-great-depression/
