The school system should be one in which kids have access to knowledge and have a desire to learn. During this past summer I had the honor of participating in an internship that involves teaching at a school in Cusco, Peru. While I was in Peru I worked with children of all ages (specifically elementary school) doing tasks such as teaching English, math, and literature. As rewarding as this internship was, getting to know all of the sweet kids and learning about the beautiful Peruvian society, it did not come without its difficulties. I spent over nine weeks working in Cusco, and during that time a saw lots of poverty. With my experiences of working in Peru, I learned about the biological effects adverse situations can cause, the difficulties with growing up in poverty, and solutions and positive ways that teachers or therapists can help and how to reverse these negative effects. Children growing up in poverty can go through a variety of challenges, which I had to focus on in my internship. The current school system in America is not designed to encompass all kinds of children from different backgrounds, which is why kids from poverty tend to have lower graduation rates. As discussed in the articles, poverty can definitely have big impacts on students’ lives and how they preform academically, but the school