Material Deprivation means lack of necessities such as adequate housing and income, most common in families found in poverty. One of the key factors within material deprivation that affect educational achievement is housing, this suggests that the children do not live in the suitable housing that would help them reach their educational potential. One point may be that their home is overcrowded, this means that the child may not have their own space in which they can study at home this can result in them becoming behind at the work for school which can reflect on their futures. Another can be the fact that some children that live in poverty have temporary housing which means that the family may have to move away from their home every so often which means they will constantly change schools; this increases the chance that the child may suffer if they have already learnt something at a previous school and must do it again in another. This repetition of the syllabus means that they may not be able to learn the rest of it which will impact on their final grades.
An alternate view is the factors that Income and Finances have; such as theorist David Bull suggests that there is ‘the cost of free schooling’ which entails additional costs that all families must pay to the child’s ‘free’ school such ad clothing, equipment and experiences such as trips. If the child does not have some of these things then they may fall behind educationally and also are more likely to be stigmatised by other children in the way that they cannot afford the lifestyle others have ultimately affecting the amount of thought they put into school and making school a less desirable place for the child. The use of stigmatisation and bully at schools may also suggest why 20% of children eligible for school meals do not take them, as they do not wish to be seen as ‘lower’ that the other pupils. Another theorist Ridge (2002) found that children living in poverty take on jobs such as cleaning,...