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QUESTION
What are the challenges faced by children in homeless families regarding their schooling?
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The council member explains that for homeless families, children face challenges in commuting long distances to get to their schools after being displaced from their previous homes.
- The commute time is now around 40 minutes for some children.
- Children sometimes arrive late to school due to the longer commute.
- However, children are reluctant to transfer schools because their current school has become like a second home.
- The children have received support at their current school and do not want to give up those benefits.
Shahana Hanif
0:39:33
And then finally, if you could just respond to the the schooling of your children right now, what is that looking like?
Angela Serda
0:41:00
This.
UNKNOWN
0:41:08
So it's been very, very hard.
0:41:11
They were one of my kids.
0:41:13
It was literally the school is just was just across the street.
0:41:17
And from my other child, it was just a couple blocks away.
0:41:21
Now we have to wake up, like, very, very early are the commute.
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There is now around 40 minutes.
0:41:32
She was telling me.
0:41:34
From the new place they're living in, and sometimes they make it on time, sometimes they don't.
0:41:42
And they she's just not going to transfer her kids from the school because it's what they it's a request specifically from the children.
0:41:55
They tell her, Mommy, please do not change my school.
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I I love my school.
0:42:02
This it's basically it's become their 2nd home their 2nd home.
0:42:06
They have received so much support.
0:42:09
Their their they're just not willing to give up the benefits that they that they received there.
0:42:15
And yeah.