Number of homeless students soars
The numbers alone are heartbreaking: 248 students in Greenville County Schools living in emergency shelters for the homeless. Another 318 living with relatives or friends because their families couldn’t afford a place of their own.Forty-eight staying in hotels or motels; five in homes with no utilities or with other substandard conditions; and four surviving in a caror a campground.Six hundred and twenty three students with no place to call home. And that was last year.As of September this year, the total is up to 703. Ron Barnett, The Greenville News, December 15, 2009