A rural community is an area outside of the city and towns; they often have farmlands, plains, deserts, and prairies; there are a few buildings, businesses, and people living in rural communities (Tickamyer & Duncan, 1990). In 2000, the United States census showed that 59 million people lived in rural communities (Scales,2014, p.). I had a chance to interview three individuals who are from a rural area in Alabama; Tykeylia Crenshaw, Erica staley, and Curtis Irby they all faced difficulties with employment, education, and transportation in their rural community. In rural communities “Unemployment among rural African Americans is twice as high as for others groups in rural areas. African Americans often live in distinct communities with high …show more content…
There is no business in rural communities that these individuals can work in that is not family owned business. Erica, an African American female who family social class is considers working class, her father is a constructing worker who have his own business in town where mostly they income come from. Erica, states, “if my father didn’t own his own business we would not be able to make end meet in the community it’s still hard to make profit when there is not enough residents to serve and enough business to work on, but we make it work”(2015). There is a lack of companies and resources in rural areas for individuals to work in. companies build in urban areas, because of their population size in that community, more people in the community means a higher profit for companies. Erica and her family have to travel out of Andalusia to go shopping for season clothes and other household products. In Andalusia there are a total of 1,463 firms according to the census bureau in Alabama there is …show more content…
Rural communities only have a limited amount of schools in the area that students can attain an education. In Greenville, Alabama they have one school for each grade level, in these school the amount of books that are available are not taking home, they are shared between each student in the classroom which can prolong a child education. Students with metal illness or disability face a hard challenge when there are not enough resources available to accommodate them in classroom environment. They have to fit in with other students and have a risk of getting set back in their education process. Rural students who have Problems in school and at home are limited community resources to assist them with mental health and family problems (Scales,2014, p.). Resources are issues in rural areas; lack of resources show the lack of improvement in resident’s lives, funding, and education. Teachers are not taught how to handle every situation that goes on with their students. They are limited to what they know and how to respond to different issues that go on in the environment around them. Having many difficulties in the classroom can cause low performance rates and test scores to decline in the area. This can stop the school from getting