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truancy 

 Truancy is any intentional unauthorized or illegal absence from  compulsory education . It is absences caused by students of their own free will, and usually does not refer to legitimate "excused" absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. Truancy is usually explicitly defined in the school's handbook of policies and procedures Some children whose parents claim to homeschool have also been found truant in the United States. Another term for truancy is playing hooky. Attending school, but not going to class is skipping school.

 Punishments imposed according to each country 

 Finland 

In filand  truant pupils usually get detention in comprehensive schools. The police are not involved in truancy control but the teachers of the school monitor the school area and sometimes the nearby areas during recess to avoid unauthorized absence. If the pupil is absent for a long period of time the parents may be fined.The aim of fining is to try to force parents to put their children into school. The child will not be escorted to school or taken from parents.

Denmark

In Denmark, some welfare benefits can be confiscated for a period if the child does not attend school. However, not all cities use this approach to keep the children in school. Most cities watch for families who have not returned their children to school after the summer vacation because some groups  their children to their ethnic home countries for behavior modification . In the city of Aarhus , 155 children had not turned up one week after the school started. In April 2009, research among 4,000 students showed that more than every third student had been absent during the last 14 days.

Germany

In Germany, the parents of a child absent from school without a legitimate excuse are notified by the school. If the parents refuse to send their child to school or are unable to control their child, local child services or social services officers may request the police to escort the child to school, and in extreme cases may petition a court to partially or completely remove child custody from the parents. Parents may also be fined in cases of refusal.

England and Wales

In England and Wales , truancy is a criminal offence for parents. Since 1998, a police officer of or above the rank of superintendent may direct that for a specified time in a specified area a police officer may remove a child believed to be absent from a school without authority to that school or to another designated place. However this is not a power of arrest and it is not a power to detain, and does not make truancy a criminal offence.There is a warning given the first time the parents allow the child to commit truancy, but if they allow it more than once, then the parents are given a fine starting from £50.

United States

In the United States, truancy regulations are generally enforced by school officials under the context of parental responsibility. New automated calling systems allow the automated notification of parents when a child is not marked present in the computer, and truancy records for many states are available for inspection online. In large schools where law enforcement officers are present, the fine for "playing hookey" can range from $250 to as much as $500. About 12,000 students were ticketed for truancy in 2008 in Los Angeles . Many states provide for the appointment of local truancy officers who have the authority to arrest habitually truant youths and bring them to their parents or to the school they are supposed to attend. Many states also have the power to revoke a student's driver's license or permit. Where it exists, a school truancy officer is often a constable or sheriff, concurrently. The position of a full-time truancy officer is generally viewed as being a relic from the 19th century when mandatory school attendance was relatively new.
questions about the topic 

1: Absentee rate generally increased with student’s poverty

2: when they are absent without a good reason

3: The 68 % of the students in US are completing the high school

4: many come from to turbulent homes, with problems like domestic violence or drug abuse

5: A student who never goes To school, and always stays in The streets

6: the schools visit to the homes to stress the importance of school

7: Denying the students driving their privileges

8: the weight of police and courts

9:the police are alerted when the students are absent

10: To give students failing marks for missing classes/Locking up kids

11: Falling down

12: More resources to summer programmes before students begin High School

First world problems

sources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2p5svFJ9cQ

First World Problems. ACTIVITY 3

 

Imagine going back 50 years in time and playing this rap to someone living in the past. How would react to the language and the ideas presented?

• laptop                                       
• wifi
• google buzz
• roomba
• touch screen
• starbucks
• washing machine 

link of the rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2p5svFJ9cQ

First world problems. Activity 2

Are you able to follow the language used? Why/why not? What is the language like? How familiar are you with the vocabulary and expressions used? What is the rhythm like? Are you able to tap it?   

1.- Yes, we are able to follow the language used in some parts because he used common words easy to understand but at same time he is so fluently that we can´t understand at all

2.- It's a common language that is spoken by many teenagers so could be an informal language.

3.- We are not able to tap it. just André  considered himself able to do it. The rhythm calls the attention because it´s sticky,funny and moved.

LINK OF THE RAP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2p5svFJ9cQ

First world problem. Activity 1

Can you identify words that rhyme?

• back - jack
• there - tupperware
• lunch - punch
• wi-fi - why try?
• cooler - ruler
• was - Buzz
• bowl - control
• wings - thing
• missed out - fell out
• seen - machine
• shake it - bake it
• sheets - receipts
• close - prose
• issue - tissue

Link of the rap: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2p5svFJ9cQ

How to solve the problem of the homelessness people?

Homelessness is a solvable problem. Yet there is an enormous gap between what we know works to end homelessness and what is actually done in most places.
 Community Solutions' purpose is to strengthen communities through the process of ending homelessness. We provide a platform, data, tools, best practices and encouragement to assist communities in closing the knowledge to practice.
We provide a platform, data, tools, best practices and encouragement to assist communities in closing the knowledge to practice.
We learned from our conversations with men and women living on the street that most were extensive users of government and not-for-profit services intended to help them. They repeatedly fell between the cracks, however, because the services themselves were not connected.

We heard again and again how someone had entered the hospital for treatment, or a program for alcohol detox and been discharged back to the street, only to go through the process again within months.
Though their health issues were directly related to their living conditions, the hospitals and treatment programs were not linked to housing, so they became sicker and sicker. We also discovered that many were trapped in homelessness because of the extensive and unrealistic requirements of institutions, such as needing a copy of their birth certificate or that they show proof of income or good credit in order to qualify for housing -- an unlikely prospect for someone living on the streets for months or years.

The solution to homelessness is simple:
 We all need a stable home, supportive relationships, access to good quality health and mental health care and a way of supporting ourselves and contributing to our communities. These pieces come together for most of us in ecuador  and other  countries, and when they don't, most of us can rely on a family member or friend to help us deal with the economic disruption of an illness, lost job, relationship breakdown or the paperwork requirements of the institutions and government agencies whose assistance we need.
Look around to see who is without those supports, however, and you understand who is most likely to become homeless. Thus, the solution to homelessness is for communities to help those without their own effective networks to knit together the pieces of a stable and purposeful life.

Questions
Ø What is the simple solution to help the homelessness?
Ø Why it is the simple and the best solution?

       

Bibliography
  http://cmtysolutions.org/update/homelessness-solvable-problem
  http://gawker.com/5980549/how-to-solve-homelessness-the-mundane-miracles-of-the-doe-fund
  http://www.businessinnovationfactory.com/summit/story/end-homelessness-solve-bigger-problem

Statistics of homeless people

The estimates of homelessness found in the State of Homelessness in America reports from 2007 to 2014 do not reflect the current estimates from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. This is due to retroactive changes to improve data quality.

Homelessness

On a single night in January 2013, 610,042 people were experiencing homelessness. From 2012 to 2013, a period of continued slow recovery from the Great Recession, overall homelessness decreased by 3.7 percent and homelessness decreased among every major subpopulation—families (7 percent), chronically homeless individuals (7.3 percent), and veterans (7.3 percent). But nationwide trends do not tell the full story:

• 31 states saw a decrease in homelessness, while 20 states saw increases in overall homelessness.

• The national rate of homelessness fell to 19 homeless persons per 10 ,000 people in the general population, but the rate in individual states ranged from 106 in Washington, DC to 8 in Mississippi.

• The rate of veteran homelessness fell to 27 homeless veterans per 10,000 veterans in the general population, but the rate in individual states ranged from 28 in Wyoming to 156 in Washington, DC.

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• Nationally, the number of people in poverty increased slightly, by 0.6 percent with 24 states experiencing an increase.

• The poverty rate remained unchanged at 15.9 percent, but the rate in individual states ranged from 10 percent in New Hampshire to 24 percent in Mississippi.

• Unemployment decreased 9.6 percent nationally and in all but four states from 2011 to 2012 and the unemployment rate ranged state by state from 3 percent in North Dakota to 11 percent in Nevada.

• The number of poor rental households experiencing severe housing cost burden, meaning households in poverty paying more than 50 percent of their income toward housing, increased slightly nationally, by 0.7 percent. Yet, 25 states still saw decreases.

• The number of people in poor households living doubled up with family and friends remained relatively stable nationally, decreasing in 27 states and increasing in 24 states.
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Populations at Risk of Homelessness

Homelessness is often described as a “lagging indicator,” meaning it takes time for economic and housing trends to impact trends in homelessness. Examining the trends in populations that would seem to be at particular risk of homelessness may be valuable in anticipating future needs for housing and homelessness assistance. Nationally, unemployment decreased significantly, but trends in the size of other at-risk populations did not improve simultaneously. Additionally, there was great variation among the states:

Sources:

http://www.endhomelessness.org/library/entry/the-state-of-homelessness-2014 

Questions 
Do you think that homeless people can increase in the next two years?
How is the situation in your country for Homeless people?

VIDEOS ABOUT HOMELESS PEOPLE 

Stereotypes of Homeless People

Some of these negative impressions are so ingrained into our society that even some people who are trying to help may believe some of them. Many of these incorrect representations make people who would otherwise want to help unwilling to help people they've come to believe do not deserve it. Here are just a few of those myths, misconceptions, stereotypes and assumptions.

Sterneotype: They Are All Criminals

Most homeless people are not criminals and many of those who are technically criminals have only committed what are called status crimes. Status crimes include getting arrested for loitering, sleeping in public, or trespassing. Those are called status crimes because they are things impossible to avoid doing if one does not have a home.

This stereotype is one of the most harmful because it creates an unreasonable fear of homeless people because those who spread it can't or don't distinguish between people who got a ticket for sleeping on a bench and violent criminals. It makes many who would probably help people afraid to do so. It prevents people from getting hired or from renting a place to live. This misconception also makes it difficult for charitable organizations to open or expand facilities that provide services for the needy due to objections from nearby residents who fear for their safety.

Stereotype: They Are All Drug Addicts and Winos

Many are neither drug addicts nor alcoholics. While close to half of adult homeless people in the United States currently struggle with addictions or have struggled with addictions in the past many of them do not have and have not had a drug or alcohol problem.

This is a harmful stereotype because it closes many doors for people without homes. Employers and landlords that believe this are unlikely to hire or rent to them. Even some homeless shelters are hampered by this misconception. Some of them require substance abuse counseling for all who use their services, even those without addictions, taking up valuable time that people could use to seek employment or to work odd jobs.

Stereotype: They Are All Too Lazy to Work

I can't count the number of times I've encountered this statement. It pops up almost every time I have a conversation about charity work and people start to go on about the topic of "the undeserving poor" or people they think don't deserve help. The major reason people claim poor people don't deserve to be helped is that they are too lazy to help themselves.

While almost half of all adult homeless people in America are unemployed it doesn't indicate laziness. Many of them lost their jobs through no fault of their own - through corporate downsizing or due to injury, illness, old age or disability.

Those well enough and young enough to work have many high barriers to gaining employment. They may be putting in dozens of applications a day but never get a bite due to the prejudice created by the strong and commonly held negative beliefs about homeless people.

Those with jobs are often underemployed or don't earn enough to afford rent or to qualify to rent. Another issue is that even if a person works full time, he or she may earn enough to afford an apartment but find themselves unable to rent one because of the income requirements many complexes have. Many rental properties require renters to make three times as much as the rent costs. Getting a co-signer can help but the co-signer usually has to have a good credit rating and an income, that if combined with the renter's, equals at least five times the price of the rent.

How is the life there?

``I stay near a homeless shelter, and I often play chess some of them. The biggest problem a lot of them have on a daily bases is not the people that they come in contact on the street it's the staff that treats them less than human, and that is a shame``. Gabriel burnett

QUESTIONS:
· Do you think that all the stereotypes of homeless are real?
· What can you do to help those people in order to make them get out of their condition?














Resources:
 http://kylyssa.hubpages.com/hub/homelessness-myths-misconceptions
 http://www.preblestreet.org/news/Myths-about-the-homeless/232/

What are the causes that explain the situation of the homeless ?

A homeless is a person, child or adult who has no permanent place to live and is forced to live on the street, but What are the causes that explain this situation?.

The situation with the homeless people has a beginning or common origin, for example: in their families, the economic problems, in their jobs, or other social problems like:

·         A rupture of family and personal ties. They have no usual or not maintained any contact with his direct and indirect family relationship. It may be due to the death of one or more members. A family fight, addiction, illness or physical or mental disorder.

·         A marital separation.

·         A Breakdown of labor relations. Homeless people are unemployed or do not have a steady job to provide them with a stable income. An estimated 10% of these people have even college.

·         Lack of funds.

·         A breakdown of social ties. The homeless may lose their friends or can have institutional difficulties such as legal problems or the police. It can be a gradual process or a sharp break because your friends will turn their backs to not accept his situation.

Origin	Causes
Job	Unemployment
	Lack of access
	Precariousness
Economy	Total or partial lack of economic resources (poverty)
	Without social protection
	Dependence on social protection
	Precariousness of social protection
	Household financial difficulties
Education	Deschooling
	Language barrier
	Abandonment of Secondary Education
	Low educational levels
	Illiteracy
	Lack of primary studies
Health	Limited access to health systems
	Diseases suffered by excluded groups
	Addiction
	Dependence, lack of autonomy and mobility
	Diseases that cause social exclusion
Social	Racism, discrimination
	Trouble with the law
	Practice of prostitution, drug addiction, gambling addiction, mental illness severe
	Domestic violence, abandonment, institutionalization

For more information:

http://www.bestebi.net/?page_id=120

http://england.shelter.org.uk/campaigns/why_we_campaign/tackling_homelessness/What_causes_homelessness

Questions about the topic:

Ø  In your opinion, what is the most relevant cause that explain the situation with the homeless?

Ø  Do you know other cause? How to solve it?