Failing Schools
Introduction
It is extremely important today to give education the utmost attention, as it is considered a guaranteed insurance into a child’s future. However, it is a usual occurrence for children to fail consistently in many parts of the world especially within the United States. A student who has lost interest in their education will generally pay less and less attention to their teacher and will perform extremely poor on tests and other assessments. In extreme cases students will drop out of school and therefore completely disregard their education and their future. It is important that causes of inability to perform well at school should be figured out before they can be pin down to improve performances in general and long term successes in whole.
Does the issue lie with the students and/or the parents?
Lack of Parenting
Today many of the children fail for the basic absence of a parent’s guidance or their parents just lacking the necessary skills to properly guide their children. Children today need their parent's guidance to help them make the correct choices towards their education now and for the future, instead of just trying to completely control them or choosing something for their child that they might not be interested in. If a parent makes all of a child’s decisions concerning their education instead of making decisions cooperatively with their child, that child may become disinterested with their own education. On the other hand if a parent can't help a child make good decisions concerning their education then that child might end up the same way, disinterested. But, if parents are there to guide their children through the process of education and decision making the child will see things from different perspectives but also take on more interest for their education because they see that same interest coming from their parents. This even helps children build some self-esteem and in turn parents would start trusting their child a little more
It is extremely important today to give education the utmost attention, as it is considered a guaranteed insurance into a child’s future. However, it is a usual occurrence for children to fail consistently in many parts of the world especially within the United States. A student who has lost interest in their education will generally pay less and less attention to their teacher and will perform extremely poor on tests and other assessments. In extreme cases students will drop out of school and therefore completely disregard their education and their future. It is important that causes of inability to perform well at school should be figured out before they can be pin down to improve performances in general and long term successes in whole.
Does the issue lie with the students and/or the parents?
Lack of Parenting
Today many of the children fail for the basic absence of a parent’s guidance or their parents just lacking the necessary skills to properly guide their children. Children today need their parent's guidance to help them make the correct choices towards their education now and for the future, instead of just trying to completely control them or choosing something for their child that they might not be interested in. If a parent makes all of a child’s decisions concerning their education instead of making decisions cooperatively with their child, that child may become disinterested with their own education. On the other hand if a parent can't help a child make good decisions concerning their education then that child might end up the same way, disinterested. But, if parents are there to guide their children through the process of education and decision making the child will see things from different perspectives but also take on more interest for their education because they see that same interest coming from their parents. This even helps children build some self-esteem and in turn parents would start trusting their child a little more
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