The article states that over half of our state’s public school students now come from economically disadvantaged families, an increase of 34 percent since 2008.  

Almost all of these kids do not have an option available to leave their parents and choose to live somewhere else.  It is not all about choice for these kids.  it is about adaptation and survival with what they got.  And what they got has apparently become less for many of them over the last eight years.