The foster care system seeks to protect children from neglect and abuse from their families. However, the system itself is flawed for a number of reasons that continues to prevent children from saving them from abusive circumstances. Many children, like Makeba, as one of the cases, mentioned by Goodman, have suffered moving from home to home with foster parents that didn’t make them feel safe and abused their weak emotional state. It’s crucial that as teachers do the best we can not to undermine students’ potential just because they are part of the foster care system. Beside understanding their different types of housing arrangements students may have, we need to help students express themselves in different ways, if needed, to overcome and work with their own personal traumas. At the same time, I think that breaking families apart is also heartbreaking when parents really want to work things out. Because of this, they cannot support their children and families are broken apart. This type of neglect experienced by children isn’t done on purpose. There needs to be systems in place to protect the family unit when the parents really want the best for their children and cannot provide enough socioeconomic and emotional support.