Poor Economics Resume Chapter 4 : Top of The Class

Hello fellas. It's been a week since my last update. Yeah, i am quite busy on lot stuffs, so i just got time to write on friday night. Okay, i will continue my resume about Poor Economics book, continuing to chapter 4, which discuss about education.I found this topic is another mind-blowing chapter, since it provides you not only with explanation that we have know before, rather it elaborate what research had told in a micro context.

It starts the chapter by explaining what makes poor people simply do not have good educational record. As we all know, the poorer you are, the less year you spend on formal school. It's because you have low budget to enroll your children in your school. Government need to take policy to encourage poor people to enroll their children to school. Basically there are many programs provided by government all over world to help poor people, such as Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) in Mexico, Bolsa Familia in Brazil, etc. This program assist the family to enroll their children to school; in return, they will be given some amount of money to cover cost for tution fee. It is expected that, poor will have incentives to enroll their children to school. Indonesia was once mentioned in this book for INPRES program. INPRES or Instruksi Presiden is a program in which many schools are build in rural area to increase education accessibility for people in remote area.

The problems is not yet solved. Enrolling children to school is one question. But how could we make them learn something in school is another question. Children comes from poor families tend to have lower result than its peer. There are many ways to explain these, from lower IQ, lack of encouraging from family, and boredom. Children comes from poor families, tend to have less IQ, for they are feed with less-micronutrients food. It also related with their motivation and brain capacity to process lot information. Another reason is lack of encouragement from family. Poor parents, in may times, often undermine their children ability to succeed in school, thus, lowering children motivation. Parents support, based on research, are know for the important aspect of children success in school. Last, boredom. Poor children will enroll in a public school, where the tuition fee are quite low. Yet, it seemed that cost and quality are positively related. At some public schools, teacher often can not deliver the materials well. In addition, they seldom try to cope to assist children who need further assistance to understand the materials.

Then, what can we do? Author put emphasize on how we need to re-engineer our educational system. We need to courage the parents to enroll their children in schools, as well to support them. We can do it by simply inform the parents that children with more years spent in school have higher chance to obtain more income. Incentives need to be designed to make parents believe on economical value of education its self. Another program that can be delivered is to tailored system. We need to focus on what they are good at, and develop it. It is proved that this system can reduce boredom in class, as well as increase children participation during the class.