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Signs of homeless people say "I will work for food" and "I am a veteran". Most common themes are substance abuse and mental illness. "If you're a drug addict or you're mentally ill, and you have a support system, you have a family, people that love you, you're not going to end up on the street," Gutknecht said. "But if you don't have those, you absolutely can."

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There is a silent agreement with the city dwellers, that the street children are allowed to sleep on the cold floors of the town, as long as every trace of them ever being there is erased in the morning. Nobody wants to know where the homeless children sleep at night. They are forgotten by people. Ignored in social debates. Through police raids they are forced to their deaths. The homeless children are a common sight in the modern Kenyan society. The numbers of homeless kids continues to grow every year.In Kenya, there are 250,000 to 300,000 children living and working on the streets. The use of psychoactive substances, or in this case glue fumes, among street children for survival has been a prevalent problem in most urban centers in Kenya. This is also why they are called the Glue Boys. Most street children reflect an image of misery, suffering and neglect. They are viewed by society as being dirty, dangerous, unhealthy thieves and so are consequently treated with apathy and disgust. The social stigmatization directed at street children is based on their appearance.

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Nearly 3,000 homeless kids in NKY are hiding in plain sight. The stigma, along with a lack of reliable data on homelessness in Northern Kentucky, leaves children and youth who experience homelessness there largely invisible. “It’s a huge problem in our community,” said Shelley Werner, the families in transition coordinator for the Erlanger Elsmere School District. “Once you lose your housing it kind of gets into this vicious cycle where you’re just trying to keep up all the time, and it affects everything down the line.”Northern Kentucky school districts counted 2,939 students as homeless during the 2016-17 school year. That’s a 26 percent increase over just two years, Werner said. The figure includes students in Boone, Campbell, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton and Pendleton counties.

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Colleges and universities are being pressured by students to allow students to donate unused meal plans to those who need them on campus. Food insecurity is strongly linked to lower graduation rates and is becoming more and more of a problem, even at premier universities such and California Berkley and Northwestern University. For decades, many students survived on little to afford college. But over time, the situation worsened to the point where now, hunger and homelessness routinely undermine students’ very ability to learn.

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Cincinnati and Hamilton County still have a higher percentage of children living in poverty than they did just six years ago. For the Tri-State as a whole, 19.4 percent, or nearly one in five children, live in households that are below the federal poverty level. That figure represents 98,824 kids. “This is a huge challenge that we’re facing as a region, a county and a city that we have to take head on,” said Ross Meyer, senior vice president and chief impact officer at United Way of Greater Cincinnati. United Way announced earlier this year that the organization would be investing the bulk of its money in efforts and organizations to reduce child poverty.

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The classroom has become a dining room as more children attending public schools live in poverty. More than half of students in public schools (51%) were in low-income families in 2013, according to a study by the Southern Education Foundation. Such a stark trend has meant more schools are feeding children when they can't get enough to eat at home. More schools provide not just breakfast and lunch but dinner, too. Others are opening food pantries in converted classrooms or closets. It's common for teachers and counselors to keep crackers, granola bars and other goodies in their desks for hungry students.

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According to the Office of Civil Rights of the U.S. Department of EducationThe data also highlights the disparities in school discipline along racial lines, showing that Black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than White students., of the 49 million students enrolled in public schools in 2011-2012, 3.45 million were suspended at some point during the school year.The data also highlights the disparities in school discipline along racial lines, showing that Black students are suspended and expelled at a rate three times greater than White students.The maps also reveal that a disproportionate number of out-of-school suspensions occur in school districts located in the southeastern United States.

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Black and Latino children are more likely to be disciplined, be more severely disciplined, and are more frequently are suspended or expelled or sent to special alternative schools. Zero tolerance policies that presume all explanations for infractions as small as being late to school are excuses and there’s no such thing as mitigating circumstances have been particularly hurtful to poor black and Latino students. African-American students without disabilities are more than three times as likely as their white peers without disabilities to be expelled or suspended. Although African-American students represent 15% of students in the CRDC, they make up 35% of students suspended once, 44% of those suspended more than once, and 36% of students expelled. Further, over 50% of students who were involved in school-related arrests or referred to law enforcement are Hispanic or African-American.

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Does suspending students from school work? The answer seems to be no. In fact, suspensions may do more harm than good. Reasons why suspensions don't work are obvious. Giving students what amounts to a free day or two off, who are already hostile toward school, usually doesn't feel like a punishment at all. This also hurts them academically further. Schools must come up with the funds to not punish these kids but help them solve their disruptive problems. Instead of basically rewarding them by excusing them from school, instead they should punish them in school and have people to talk to them about their problems.