Many people see homeless adults laid out on subway cars, curled up on park benches, or inside tents but fail to realize the mass of homeless students in the city that strive to survive each day.
New York City public schools hit a troubling milestone last year: 154,000 students experienced homelessness at some point during the academic school year. That means that nearly 1 in 9 students in the nation’s largest school system were in a constant battle with their personal life and finding a stable place to sleep.
This issue is one that teachers, counselors, and students say is impossible to ignore. Advocates for Children of New York, a group that tracks student homelessness, reported that this number is the highest it has ever been. This total includes students living in shelters, doubled up in friends’ or relatives’ homes, in temporary housing, or even staying in cars…