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School is the most normal activity that most children experience collectively . . . . For homeless children it is much more than a learning environment. It is a place of safety, personal space, friendships, and support (Oakley & King, in Stronge and Reed-Victor, 2000).Randy had big dreams for himself upon graduating from high school; he had a full football scholarship that would pay his way through college. But when his girlfriend got pregnant during his sophomore year, it all began to unravel. Now he has seven children under the age of ten and struggles to provide for his family and his chronically-ill wife.
When their apartment building was condemned, Martha and her five children became homeless. This tragedy only compounded the instability they had experienced since Martha’s husband was killed two years ago. The family currently stays in a local shelter where she and her children share a room with three sets of bunk beds. She is enrolled in a GED program at a junior college and hopes to be a Certified Nursing Assistant some day. After years of alcohol abuse and the trauma of witnessing her first son’s fall from her high-rise apartment building, Debra became a mother to ...