The document discusses how generational poverty promotes hopelessness and limits a child's potential, feeding into achievement gaps. It proposes a volunteer-driven, cross-cultural enrichment initiative to support public schools, reduce bias, and overcome the effects of childhood poverty through home-style education enhancements. The goal is to grow generations of hopeful families, improve classroom and community civility, close achievement gaps, and tip the cycle of generational poverty by tapping into the unlimited potential of young children.

2. • Generational poverty promotes hopelessness
• Work ethic and civility mean little without hope
• Our inability or reluctance to mitigate the effects of
poverty limit a child’s human potential
• An enrichment gap feeds our achievement gap

3.  American public schools work for advantaged
children
 Modifying the public school model to serve
disadvantaged children works but is costly
 Early volunteer driven cross cultural enrichment
initiatives can reduce our achievement gap by
mitigating the effects of poverty

4. A volunteer driven cross cultural strategy
designed to support public schools,
reduce bias & overcome the effects of
childhood poverty through home styled
education enhancements.

5.  Unlimited human potential of K-4 Kids
 Faith based & private sector mandates
 Design options - “Learning is natural & effortless everywhere but school”
 Quality volunteer availability
 Parental engagement
 Life is the only test we prepare for

6.  Grow a generation of hopeful families
 Reduce stereotypes and bias
 Improve classroom civility
 Close achievement gap
 Improve community civility
 Tip the generational poverty cycle

7. “From those to whom much is given,
much is expected” Luke 12:48 paraphrase
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